I’m not talking about GPU load. It is about power consumption of the whole card. Those are two different things.
You don’t seem to have a card and/or version of GPU-Z that monitors both. GPU-Z shows a jump from about 5.5% idle to about 8.5% idle. The same 3% increase. It’s not a spike. It goes up and stays there. That is what causes the card to heat up. GPU Load varies a bit but is generally only a few percent at idle. Mostly 0% to 1%. Not even enough to have the core or memory come of their resting clock speeds.
I don’t know either why this would happen. But it does. So i’m reporting it so hopefully a fix can be found / made. Maybe it’s something weird in the Nvidia driver. But I do find it curious that I can have the idle power draw be normal, doing all sorts of tasks on my PC, for hours on end, but as soon as I check my mail or toggle the Mail Shield in Avast, boom … higher power draw until the next reboot. It really is strange.
