The amount of carbon this has undoubtedly put into our atmosphere is really my main concern. Yes I know you can do hacky workarounds to fix this, but how many of their consumers did this? Roughly none. What a waste of our planets resources.

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    11 months ago

    Not sure what mean you mean make “a statement” but idle power was listed as a known issue in early drivers and there’s been a ton of work on this.

    Driver 23.7.1 did a lot to reduce idle power consumption. There was more work in 21.8.1. And I expect it’s an area of continued investigation. Though it can be difficult considering all the different possible PC/monitor setups. Often it’s a case of memory having to clock high to keep up with high refresh rate monitors.

    Some your might try, if you can, is enabling VRR. That was shown to have a measurable effect.

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        11 months ago

        If the is was true, there would be at least one monitor setup that does below 50w at idle with a dual setup, 144hz and 60hz.

        I don’t think the internet has seen that on a 7000 series with dual mismatched, ever, without a workaround to lower refresh.

        So could we get model numbers of monitors to test to verify this is being worked on? Could give a lot of people hope. Thanks.