The Ultimate Performance plan improves speed on systems where hardware continually goes to and from an idle state. While you may be thinking this would be great for gaming rigs, don’t get your hopes up. RELATED: How to Use and Configure Windows 10's 'Battery Saver' Mode Because of this, machines that operate on battery power aren’t given this option by default, as it can consume more power and kill your battery much faster. Also, any power-saving features are disabled to improve performance even more. 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. Although this may only be a fraction of a second, it can make a difference. 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. It’s geared toward reducing or eliminating micro-latencies associated with fine-grained power management techniques. 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. What is the Ultimate Performance Power Plan?