I’m connecting to Ubuntu with latest nvidia drivers and checking power draw with nvidia-smi:
buntu@gpupc:~$ nvidia-smi
Sun Mar 2 04:25:14 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.124.04 Driver Version: 570.124.04 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Off | 00000000:03:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 0% 39C P0 108W / 350W | 825MiB / 24576MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 1 Tesla P40 Off | 00000000:04:00.0 Off | Off |
| N/A 24C P8 9W / 250W | 7MiB / 24576MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1593 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 21MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1875 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 12MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 7462 C+G ...c/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon 258MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 7537 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 122MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 7821 C+G ...c/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon 339MiB |
| 1 N/A N/A 1593 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
I get 108-110W without running any tasks. Same problem was on default ubuntu drivers (550).
When I logout from RDP session and check nvidia-smi with anydesk/from display/from ssh, power draw returns to normal:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.124.04 Driver Version: 570.124.04 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Off | 00000000:03:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 0% 38C P8 20W / 350W | 54MiB / 24576MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 1 Tesla P40 Off | 00000000:04:00.0 Off | Off |
| N/A 25C P8 9W / 250W | 5MiB / 24576MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1593 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 21MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1875 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 12MiB |
| 1 N/A N/A 1593 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Maybe 110W draw is expected because of video encoding for RDP? It seems like too much though.
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (655.6 KB)