Hey community,
I recently updated to Windows 11 24H2 (it shouldn’t take hours of troubleshooting and tricks to update a fucking OS and have it work), and while making sure all of my settings were intact I noticed “Dynamic Refresh Rate” under Display > Advanced Display Settings. I can’t find any “A/B” testing online, so I thought that I would test it myself to see just how advantageous it might be.
I’m going to test everything through software (HWiNFO64) as I don’t have fancy equipment (can’t afford it), so I know that I’ll be looking at:
- Power draw to CPU and GPU
- Presentmon for refresh rate
I’ll be testing true idle (literally walk away from the computer at desktop and the only activity be HWiNFO logging), browsing the web (this includes watching YouTube, which I can already tell you boosts the refresh rate to at least 60hz) and working in LibreOffice Calc processing the data from the aforementioned scenarios both with the Windows option activated and deactivated.
I intend to attempt to calculate power savings and make things as reproducible as possible, with the main goal to be to provide data easily recalculable no matter if you live in a region with a fixed or variable price on power consumption.
Here is where you come in;
- What other scenarios/data would you like to see? I will accommodate as much as I can.
- How should I present it? What types of charts would you like to see that are easiest for you to read?
- Is anyone even interested in this kind of data?
I’ll probably start testing in a couple of weeks just to allow time for suggestions and whatnot, so by all means take your time.