

This option allows players to limit or cap the maximum FPS the GPU can render for the game.

This more of a player’s choice and has no impact on performance. This option works only for games with MSAA (multisample antialiasing) solution. What it does is that it works on top of MSAA to improve anti-aliasing. This option controls how much power the GPU can use while rendering frames. Players have three options to choose from, Optimal, Adaptive, and Prefer Maximum Performance. Optimal limits the power usage to a certain extent, which doesn’t allow the GPU to fully utilize itself. Adaptive allows the GPU to automatically reduce or increase power usage depending on GPU load.

Prefer Maximum Performance allows the GPU to keep itself at a higher clock speed and the voltage usage will be maximum all the time even when the GPU is idle.Īdaptive is the best option for most video games. However, even adaptive fails to work sometimes so, when you think adaptive power mode isn’t enough, set it to Prefer Maximum performance. This Nvidia Control Panel option reserves a certain amount of your HDD and uses it to stream shaders.
