My previous question did not get any response regarding this, however it may be a problem with the Nvidia drivers and supplied firmware that’s limiting the power draw of laptop RTX 3060 GPUs to 80W maximum. So an important question to ask is if ANYONE on ANY laptop has been able to get a laptop 306…

Refuses to run with these output Jan 13 13:21:10 tux systemd[1]: Starting nvidia-powerd service… Jan 13 13:21:10 tux /opt/bin/nvidia-powerd[25182]: nvidia-powerd version:1.0(build 1) Jan 13 13:21:10 tux /opt/bin/nvidia-powerd[25182]: Error in loading msr module Jan 13 13:21:10 tux /opt/bin/nvidi…

I wonder if it’s trying to read raw data from msrs or rather digested data from intel_rapl which should have zen123 support as of kernel 5.11.

nvidia-settings 510 now includes setting Quiet/Balanced/Performance modes https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-settings/blob/main/src/gtk%2B-2.x/ctkpowermode.c obviously limited to (selected?) intel cpus for now.

This is great progress. The driver seems to be heading in the direction of supporting different power modes. I haven’t installed this driver yet so unable to comment. Has anyone tried it on 5.17? Perhaps there is support in it for zen3 power consumption. Will share an update here if I’m able to te…

Yeah I tried it with 5.17-rc1 but sadly still power consumption of the zen3 cpu cannot be calculated. Powerd gives the same errors.

nvidia-powerd still not working on latest 500 series drivers with the same errors. With an AMD CPU.

510.47.03, Intel Core i7-10870H, RTX 3060 laptop (optimus, Dell G15 5510), nvidia-powerd is running but still no more than 80W.

Did you check nvidia-settings for the appropriate setting (quiet/balanced/performance)? Did you also install the dbus config file ( https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/510.47.03/README/dynamicboost.html )?

Has anyone been able to run an RTX 3060 laptop GPU at more than 80W on Linux?

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generix January 24, 2022, 11:15am 54

Still buggy though, even if it runs:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/510-39-01-beta-driver-nvidia-powerd-causing-high-system-load/200839

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