Has anyone "benchmarked" the power saving features of Virtu MVP? I am extremely skeptical on this program, it does increase FPS and benchmark scores in some games, but I don't think the games are more fluid at all, despite the higher FPS numbers.
Anyway, what I'm mostly interested in are the power saving features. Right now I have it installed, hyperformance and all that crap is turned off, and I have the monitor cable connected to the integrated GPU (in my case, HD4000), and I did a couple of tests for GPU usage. Basically, with this setup, everything runs on the iGPU but it switches to the Nvidia when I run a game or something that needs it (I need to manually add programs that aren't in the list or they will run on the iGPU, for example, the PS2 emulator PCSX2). Using GPUz I noticed that the Nvidia stays at 0% usage all the time unless I run a game, at that point Virtu uses the Nvidia and obvioulsy, GPU usage rises. If I connect the cable to the nVidia and disable virtu, it always hovers around 10% usage, if I use Windows media center or watch a video, it can go even higher.
From this little test, I can assume that some power is saved if I don't run any game, but I don't have the instruments to measure system wide power consumption. Has anyone tested it? If there is no power saving at all, I might as well uninstall it and forget about it.
Anyway, what I'm mostly interested in are the power saving features. Right now I have it installed, hyperformance and all that crap is turned off, and I have the monitor cable connected to the integrated GPU (in my case, HD4000), and I did a couple of tests for GPU usage. Basically, with this setup, everything runs on the iGPU but it switches to the Nvidia when I run a game or something that needs it (I need to manually add programs that aren't in the list or they will run on the iGPU, for example, the PS2 emulator PCSX2). Using GPUz I noticed that the Nvidia stays at 0% usage all the time unless I run a game, at that point Virtu uses the Nvidia and obvioulsy, GPU usage rises. If I connect the cable to the nVidia and disable virtu, it always hovers around 10% usage, if I use Windows media center or watch a video, it can go even higher.
From this little test, I can assume that some power is saved if I don't run any game, but I don't have the instruments to measure system wide power consumption. Has anyone tested it? If there is no power saving at all, I might as well uninstall it and forget about it.
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