I just installed an rtx 3080 ti and it's using 120w at idle. My old gtx 1070 was using around 40w.
All I've done since getting the new gpu is uninstall the old drivers, put in the new card and installed the new drivers. Anyone got any ideas?
Hi all,
Turns out this was caused by my monitors. With my 3080 Ti, I had a 5120x1440 240hz monitor and 2560x1440 144hz monitor, this caused very high idle power consumption due to not wanting to go in to a lower powerstate. When one of the monitors were disconnected, the power consumption dropped to the normal 30w-40w like I had with my 1070.
I most likely did not suffer this issue with my 1070 as it could not output 240hz on my 5120x1440 monitor, it was limited to 120hz due to not supporting DSC (Display Stream Compression.
Thanks all for your help.