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Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by formerly_proven on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:22PM (#27933257)
GPUs do use fairly fine-grained dynamic frequency scaling on their memory chips for precisely this reason: having a top-end GPU run at around 15-20 W under light loads simply wouldn't be possible otherwise.
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Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by magicalhippo on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:03PM (#27938073)
Yeah, but at the time my card only went down half-way, to 1200 MHz IIRC, while I made it go down to 800 Mhz in desktop mode. In gaming it was closer to 3 GHz. This was before my NVIDIA GTX 970, some AMD model.

Just really blew my mind how much heat the VRAM contributed.

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