NVIDIA driver has a habit of keeping my GPU at the highest performance level

same test in windows
but this time, chromium with 5 tabs
youtube video at 1080_60fps and also an hd video with mpv using nvenc as codec
nvidia-smi.exe
Thu Apr 02 12:29:32 2020
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 442.59 Driver Version: 442.59 CUDA Version: 10.2 | |-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+ | GPU Name TCC/WDDM | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 GeForce GTX 980 WDDM | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A | | 14% 29C P8 22W / 195W | 201MiB / 4096MiB | 25% Default | ±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+ ±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Type Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | 0 396 C+G Insufficient Permissions N/A | | 0 2600 C+G C:\Program Files\mpv\mpv.exe N/A | | 0 3168 C+G C:\Windows\explorer.exe N/A | | 0 3520 C+G …t_cw5n1h2txyewy\ShellExperienceHost.exe N/A | | 0 3596 C+G C:\Program Files\Chrome\chrome.exe N/A | | 0 3684 C+G …dows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchUI.exe N/A | | 0 5588 C+G …mmersiveControlPanel\SystemSettings.exe N/A | ±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+