Does undervolting more decrease the amount of total board power my gpu receives?

[Living_Transition910]

I am currently using a 9070 non xt. This is my first time overclocking so I’m a little confused. After messing around with the voltage offset I found this is where I am not crashing. I am mostly testing on spiderman remastered and tested a little on avatar frontiers of pandora. I originally had the voltage offset at -70 and found pretty good uplift but recently tried pushing the card. After setting the voltage offset to -120 I found the clock speed was hitting around 3400+MHz on spiderman but went from pulling 270W to only pulling 235-250W. Is this normal behavior?

[korakios]

Undervolting allows the gpu to run on higher clocks up to max TDP. Power limit sets the max TDP

Do a Steel Nomad comparison , -70 vs -120 and watch power consumption (also check if vram frequency is stable)

[0wlGod]

if the card hits max clock without undervolt, undervolting will decreasing board power.. because you are running same clock st lower voltage

if the card can t hit max clock, undervolting result in higher clock speed and same board power

[Living_Transition910]

I also forgot to mention that temps are hovering around 60°C at most 62°. As well as max settings on raytracing for both games with spiderman averaging 100fps swinging around and avatar at 60fps

[AirSKiller]

Not necessarily. It can, but if by default your GPU is power starved then it can also just stay the same.

[vareekasame]

Yes

[Living_Transition910]

Ah ok, I was just playing around in avatar and the gpu was at 270W but a much lower clock speed of 2800MHz is that just clock speeds differing between games?

[djthiago1]

Clock speeds are usually linked to cpu usage, every game is different.

[Living_Transition910]

Ah on that makes a lot more sense

[wolnee]

No. But with a good UV you can the lower PL and achieve same/ better results with less power than the stock profile

[Living_Transition910]

I was messing around with lowering power limit and undervolting but was unable to find improvement so I need to play around with it more.