Impact of CPU Throttle on Gaming
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A Cyperpunk test to show the impact of CPU Throttling on a game. In this case, Cyberpunk detects all Cores/Threads which gives me an advantage for the test which shows, the more I throttle, the less FPS I get (Not a big drop, but a drop still).
Depending on the game engine, the impact will be bigger or null. Games like CSGO for me never noticed that I dropped them from 5.5Ghz to 2.4Ghz and never noticed a thing or had an impact on FPS.
Other games like GTA5 also had a similar case where dropping them even more than the example of Cyberpunk did not impact the gaming performance.
On all cases, the ideas to throttle the CPU is to lower the temperature of it. In some cases I was able to drop from 100c to 48c without dropping a single FPS value. Again, it will depend on the game and hardware but this gives you an option to play around with your CPU / GPU combination while having a better temperature and at the same time maintaining FPS performance.
CPUFreq - https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1082/cpufreq/
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