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…

I’m in the boat now. Please do your math, it’s a bad intel joke. Put shortly, I have a power budget of 150W, the intel cpu (with a TDP of 35W, haha) takes 80W constant, 100W on boost. Leaving 50W for the nvidia. Windows standard install uses 50W on idle, vendor specific software puts it down to 13W…

Only amd does not support it, it is already available on intel laptop https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/515.57/README/dynamicboost.html Hardware Requirements Dynamic Boost is supported only on platforms that meet all of the following requirements: Notebook form factor. Ampere or n…

We are actively working upon it and have a bug 3674976 filed internally for tracking purpose.

Nvidia-powerd is only for dynamic boost, that’s the occasional 15W extra. The switch between the base power limit of (in my case) 50,60 or 70W is a “platform profile”. You can check the nvidia-settings code, there’s an extra pane for it that’s hidden. As you can see from my measurements, this can’t…

So any guesstimates about when we are be able to use our gpus at full power on linux with an amd cpu and nvidia gpu? i remember optimus is implemented on nvidia drivers took like 3 years while implementing that there were newer technologies to adapt on linux. Im waiting for a year already.

Is there any update about the power limit? I have a Lenovo Legion 5 15ACH6H AMD Ryzen 5 5800H RTX 3060 and I am still not able to use my GPU beyond 80W.

I have a Legion 5 15ACH6H with AMD Ryzen 5 5800H / RTX 3060 running Arch GNU/Linux, enabled the testing repos, running the latest version of the Linux kernel and NVIDIA drivers but I still cant get more than 80W :) OPEN SOURCE YOUR DRIVERS ALREADY, LET ME USE WHAT I HAVE PAID FOR!

Here you go. [image] GitHub - NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module... NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source. Contribute to NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules development by creating an account on GitHub.

These are just the kernel modules, the userspace is closed source and they dont plan on ever open sourcing that :)

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

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eduardorh.usana August 9, 2022, 11:24pm 80

Hi, I hope you are doing Ok.
I was wondering if you known if there’s been a new development regarding been able to use Dynamic Boost Feature with Nvidia 3XXX cards and AMD Cpus. I’m kinda been unable to make it work at full TDP. Thanks a lot. Have a great Day.

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