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NVIDIA Shuts Down RTX 5000 Power Limit Control OC in Latest Driver Update

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We recently reported on the open-source overclocking tool, mVolt+, unlocking power limit control on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000-series GPUs, allowing certain GPUs, like the RTX 5090, to draw up to 125 W of additional power and enabling significantly higher core clock speeds as a result. With the latest driver update 616.56, however, it seems as though NVIDIA has blocked the core power control functionality. Based on reports from the Overclock.net f…
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While the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 family of graphics cards are unmatched in terms of performance, you can always squeeze even more out of them, if only by increasing their power limits. The Overccolers are always trying to... Full version of the site https://ithardware.pl/aktualnosci/nvidia_blokuje_popularne_narzedzie_do_oc_kart_geforce_rtx_50-53662.html

Recently, the mVolt+ software, in version 0.36, promised to take control of the voltage of your graphics card, in order to far exceed its original TDP! TDPs that explode The results were impressive, some users arched demented TDPs, 700 watts on a RTX 5090, 680 Watts on an ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC, whose classic TDP oscillates between 400 and 450 Watts, all without Shunt Mod, so as to give cold sweats on the long-term sustainability of the com…

Recently, the mVolt+ software was under the fire of the ramp since the latter allowed to modify the power limit of NVIDIA's RTX 50 cards, all without any hardware modification of the shunt mod type. Indeed, via the latter, it was possible to push the power limit of a RTX 5090 to 700 W instead of [...] The article End of the control of the Power Limit via mVolt+ after the last MAJ of the driver ? appeared first on Overclocking.com.

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techpowerup.com broke the news on Sunday, August 30, 2026.
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