Question about Vsync and unlocked Framerate

[chill out]

Hello all ,

I recently purchased a 144hz Monitor and therefore I think that i am in no need to use Vsync as there won't be any tearing but i have a question : there is some games that has unlocked framerate that may rises up when disabling Vsync to 3000's and 4000's

so my question is if disabling Vsync and reaching those 3000's FPS will consume a lot of power from PC components especially GPU and shorten its life or it doesn't consume more than what it needs for 144FPS ? I know that the output in both cases is 144FPS but i fear that those huge unused Frames will take a lot of power and shorten components life ?

Thanks

 

[renz496]

Lol it will not going to shorten gpu life. That's just mean gpu utilization will going up. Gpu are made to work like that. Anyway screen tearing can happen even when the frame rates are well below monitor refresh rates. In some games the tearing effect is only subtle but in sone other games it can be very visible. The only way to truly eliminate screen tearing is using vsync or using monitors that have dynamic variable refresh rates that will directly match screen refresh rates with game frame rates (Gsync/FreeSync)

 

[photonboy]

1) Screen tearing always happens without VSYNC (unless you have a new GSYNC or FreeSync monitor properly setup).

2) Your best option for games with noticeable tearing is to use the "Half Adaptive Refresh" option for NVidia or the similar Dynamic option via RadeonPro for AMD cards.

Adaptive Refresh simply enables VSYNC if you can output at least 144FPS (for 144Hz monitors) and turns VSYNC OFF if you can't.

The "HALF" method caps to 72FPS which is much easier to get to. You want to adjust the game graphics settings so you rarely drop below to avoid screen tearing, but don't drop the settings too low or you sacrifice quality. Basically adjust until you occasionally get screen tear... if tearing gets more frequent drop a few settings such as 8xMSAA to 4xMSAA.

3) 3000/4000? I have no idea what you mean there.

Update: oh, frame rate. That high of a frame rate would only be for a short time during some low-res intro videos. No big deal.

4) GPU power.
It does use more GPU power even in desktop mode (144Hz vs 60Hz). It varies a lot between cards. The GTX980Ti for example can use about 40W more power because it raises the GPU clock from a really low 150MHz to 800MHz or so.

Anyway, the only real issue would be slightly more NOISE though you may not notice depending on how good the card cooling is.