I noticed that D5 render doesn’t take into account Nvidia App max power usage. It constantly use even 350watt while simple editing.
There should be option to lower fps and power usage even at cost of quality and responsiveness. Cards like RTX 5090 are fast enough to work even at 50% of power usage.
Not necessary power wasting.
Of course a lot of this depends on how heavy the model/scene is, but my 5080 uses ~160W normally when editing and will jump to maybe ~250W when rendering. In fact, it’s running right now (idle) alongside me writing this in a web browser on a separate screen and total GPU output is ~80W while the window is inactive. I’ve never seen D5 hit the max TDP of 360W on it. That’s actually a separate thread I’ve asked the dev’s about since I was expecting D5 to max out my card when it appears there’s performance being left on the table. D5 never really pushes my 5080 like a video game would, in terms of watching temps rise, fan speeds increase and power draw, etc.
I’m not sure there’s anything to be done on it inside of the software, aside from manually turning off dynamic mode (weather effects, animations, etc)- which I usually do anyway because I find them distracting.
Does the 5090 really 2x the power draw of the 5080? That was one consideration I had when choosing between GPU’s. Have you looked into a slight undervolt?
It looks like D5 override Nvidia App power settings and use max sometimes my 5090 get 350watt during simple editing.
I still prefer to use the Nvidia Control Panel instead of the newer Nvidia app for custom performance settings. Give that a try.
But you don’t have power watt settings and DLSS version per application in Nvidia Control Panel.
Clearly it doesn’t work, though, so…
FYI, you can use both application simultaneously- for this reason.