why is nitro sense using too much power? and other questions Acer nitro 5 an515-54-728c

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Ariyan
Ariyan Member Posts: 21 Troubleshooter
edited January 2021 in Nitro Gaming

hi, as you can see, on my Acer nitro 5 an515-54-728c, despite that no games are running and RTX is off, nitro sense power usage is very high. I have updated nitro sense from Acer's website so i don't know if it was like this in the previous version.

1-is it really using too much power or is it a bug or something?

2-i like nitro sense running while i play games, so i can see how the thermals and performance was, but my question is: if it is using too much power so closing it must improve the performance right? you may not believe but i think it is really using too much power, because i just closed it completely and after a few seconds, the fan speed decreased a lot, i can say it by fans noise

3- one other question is, does changing windows priority for a game, improve GPU performance for the game?(it apparently does help with CPU)

4- while playing "Control on max graphics DLSS on and ray tracing on high" or "Fortnite with DLSS on, Epic settings and no ray tracing" or "PES 2021 on max settings", after i close it and check the nitro sense, its graph shows that GPU was running below 85%(on average) and unstable framerates in PES and fortnite(fan speed on max), is it a problem with the games or thermals or something else? will a cooling pad improve it? is there any other way to improve it?
NOTE: before updating Nitro sense, the CPU graph never reached 100%, but after the update, the graph shows higher percentage, despite that CPU clock speed hasn't got better(i'm sure)

5- The RTX 2060 on this laptop, is it the 80 watts variant? i saw in a youtube video that a guy said This is not a limited edition of rtx2060, i mean is there a lower variant than 80 watts?

6- and the final question: the CPU is limited to 35watts, so i cannot get more that 3.0GHz(on average) while rendering, is there anyway to improve it? i think, but i'm not sure, before updating nitro sense, it was 3.2 GHz on average(but i might be wrong, because according to some details, this laptop's CPU can run on 45watts for 28 seconds), should i downgrade the Nitro sense?

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