NVIDIA App Adds 1-Click “Auto GPU” Tuning & 120 FPS AV1 Recording, G-Assist Can Also Dynamically Tune GPU, Record Statistics & Change Game Settings On The Fly
NVIDIA App Adds 1-Click “Auto GPU” Tuning & 120 FPS AV1 Recording, G-Assist Can Also Dynamically Tune GPU, Record Statistics & Change Game Settings On The Fly
NVIDIA App is getting several new additions such as 1-click Auto GPU tuning, overclocking, 120 FPS AV1 recording & some handy G-Assist features.
A much-requested feature for the NVIDIA App was the addition of the overclocking/tuning capability and at Computex, NVIDIA has finally brought the feature to gamers. With the new NVIDIA App updates, all GeForce gamers will have access to one-click automatic GPU tuning & overclocking capabilities which can automatically adjust the GPU to your required needs.
NVIDIA App Now With Auto & Easy GPU Tuning Features
We had a little bit of a hands-on with the new tuning feature within the NVIDIA app at their demo suite. The utility is accessed through the main NVIDIA App software (in BETA) and will be added to the overlay later on. From what we saw, the tuning options will be accessible through the Performance Tab within the System panel.
Here, you will find the name of your graphics card along with several statistics such as GPU clock GPU power, GPU temperature, GPU voltage, VRAM clock, GPU Utilization, CPU Utilization, & GPU Fan speed.
Underneath the Statistics panel, you will find the Automatic Tuning switch which reads "Automatic tuner which finds the best overclock settings for your GPU and maintains that performance regularly" and has a toggle that can be enabled to run the tuning mode. The Auto Tuning takes around 20 minutes and can be interrupted when there's a background load, for example, a game is running or some other similar workload. After the tuning is complete, you will get a list of GPU tuning that's been completed based on your performance limits. The tuner also regularly performs scans to ensure your GPU is running the best profile.
These performance limits allow users to adjust the maximum voltage, maximum power, and temperature targets by percentage value. You can also set the fan speeds to either automatic mode or manual mode and do it yourself. It was quite instantaneous when we adjusted the fan speed.
After setting the performance limits and running the tuner, you will get a list of changes which in our case were +118 MHz for the GPU and +200 MHz for the VRAM. That's a nice increase but most importantly, the fact that you can adjust the GPU to your liking without having to need any technical knowledge is quite neat.
Best of all, while overclocking or tuning your GPU, even automatically, can make your system unstable and cause visual artifacts, doing it with the NVIDIA App tuner won't damage your GPU or void your warranty so in a way, you can achieve faster-overclocked performance without any worries.
G-Assist Assists In Adjust GPU & In-Game Parameters Based on Your Needs
That brings us to the next topic which is G-Assist and its dynamic and real-time adjustment for GPU and games. In another demo, NVIDIA showed us a cool example of how the G-Assist technology can assist gamer in achieving the right kind of GPU tune. You can tell it to achieve a specific FPS limit, say your FPS doesn't ever reach below 50 FPS and it will adjust the GPU to your specific requirements. This indeed was the case as seen when NVIDIA asked G-Assist to show us a frame/power graph, also done with G-Assist, Think of it like Shadowplay which can monitor your GPU stats at mealtime while running in the background but also communicate directly to the GPU itself.
You can also ask G-Assist to perform other actions on your GPU such as setting a specific clock target or telling it to reduce power by 50W and it will do so. There are a lot of use cases for G-Assist and users can go the creative route with it.
One more thing to note is that G-Assist can also be called to automatically tune the game settings. You can ask it to make the game run faster and it will set the proper in-game visual quality to do so or you can tell it to achieve the best visual quality and it will make the required adjustments. However, at the end of the day, NVIDIA wants developers to decide if they want their game to have G-Assist support or not. But this demo is a means to showcase to developers what's possible in their games with G-Assist.
120 FPS AV1 Recording In NVIDIA App For RTX 40, 120 FPS H.264 For The Rest
Finally, we have the new 120 FPS AV1 recording which lets GeForce RTX 40 owners not only record videos at the higher 120 FPS rate but that so with HDR support. And having AV1 support means that you can now encode with much higher efficiency with NVIDIA quoting a figure of up to 40%. Technically, the 120 FPS Recording is available for all codecs but RTX 40 GPUs with AV1 can do it with even higher quality than H.264.
NVIDIA has published a demo of Horizon Forbidden West recorded in both 4K H.264 and 4K AV1, showcasing better visual fidelity in the latter. Overall, NVIDIA has made some value additions to its App and the G-Assist utility looks like a cool new way to play games and tune your GPU while playing your favorite games. This is just the start of what's to come so expect more innovations from NVIDIA in the coming months.
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