How to Enable the Ultimate Performance Power Plan in Windows 10

Microsoft has added an ;Ultimate Performance; power scheme to Windows 10 April 2018 Update. It7;s built upon the High-Performance power scheme but tries to eke out every little bit of performance possible. Here7;s how to enable it.

What is the Ultimate Performance Power Plan?

The Ultimate Performace power plan is designed to give an extra boost to high-power systems (think workstations and servers) by optimizing the High-Performance power plan. It7;s geared toward reducing or eliminating micro-latencies associated with fine-grained power management techniques. A micro-latency is just the slight delay between when your OS recognizes that a piece of hardware needs more power and when it delivers that power. Although this may only be a fraction of a second, it can make a difference.

The Ultimate Performance plan eliminates the polling of hardware to see if it needs more juice and lets the hardware to consume all the power it needs. Also, any power-saving features are disabled to improve performance even more. Because of this, machines that operate on battery power aren7;t given this option by default, as it can consume more power and kill your battery much faster.