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Power Limiting Your GPU: The Complete Guide

How to reduce power consumption without sacrificing much hashrate. Save electricity and heat.

Power limiting reduces your GPU's power draw, saving electricity and lowering temperatures with only a small hashrate loss.

General rules of thumb:

  • 80% power limit β†’ ~80% hashrate, ~75% power (better efficiency)
  • 70% power limit β†’ ~70% hashrate, ~65% power
  • 60% power limit β†’ ~60% hashrate, ~55% power (max efficiency)

PeakMiner has a built-in --power-limit flag. Our Calculator lets you experiment with different power limits.