HP OMEN MAX 16 RTX 5070 ti Laptop GPU Power Locked at 80W on Linux Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

[Blondinka]

Product: OMEN MAX 16 inch Gaming Laptop PC 16-ak0000 (A4UX5AV)

Hello,

I’m fairly new to Linux (Ubuntu), so please forgive me if this question seems basic — I’ve done my best to provide all the details.

I recently got an HP OMEN 16 MAX laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU and an AMD Ryzen AI 9 375HX processor.
Everything works well, but I’ve noticed that my GPU is permanently limited to 80W, even though its hardware and firmware clearly support up to 140W.

When I check the GPU power limits on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS using nvidia-smi -q -d POWER, I get the following Power Readings

Current Power Limit : 80.00 W

Requested Power Limit : 80.00 W
Default Power Limit : 80.00 W
Min Power Limit : 5.00 W
Max Power Limit : 140.00 W

However, when I try to increase it:

sudo nvidia-smi -pl 140

I receive:

Changing power management limit is not supported for GPU: 00000000:C2:00.0.
Treating as warning and moving on.
All done.

Things I’ve tried:
Updating the BIOS from F.02 → F.04 (latest but same result)

Installed NVIDIA driver 580.105.08

Using the official 330W HP power adapter (always plugged in, battery above 90% different outlets and building tried same result)

Verified that OMEN Gaming Hub on Windows allows higher GPU power modes (110W+), but there’s no similar control under Linux

Performance observations:
Interestingly, even with the 80W cap, I get around 170,000 points on Geekbench 6.5.0 (OpenCL test), which is surprisingly similar to the Windows results reported for the same laptop which should have the higher power limit thanks to the HP Gaming HUB
I’ve already tried on the Driver to change the preferred power mode to Prefer Maximum Performance
but i got no change and my laptop is always on Power mode Performance

System details:
Laptop: HP OMEN 16 MAX

GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU

CPU: AMD Ryzen AI 9 375HX

BIOS: F.04

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

Kernel: 6.14.0-33-generic

NVIDIA Driver: 580.105.08

CUDA Version: 13.0

Question:
Is there any way to unlock or enable the higher GPU performance modes (above 80W) on Linux, without relying on OMEN Gaming Hub for Windows?
Or could a firmware or BIOS update be released in the future to allow this?

I am frankly out of option at this point so your help would be greatly appreciated

Thank you so much for your time and help!

[jimrd]

Sounds like you don’t have dynamic boost enabled, I remember having the same issue on my 4090 laptop. Try sudo systemctl enable --now nvidia-powerd.serviceand see if that unlocks the full 140W. Refer Chapter 23. Dynamic Boost on Linux for more details. Make sure you’re plugged in as you will likely be limited to 80w by the hardware management controller when running on battery, regardless of the power profile you’ve set in OS.

[Blondinka]

Ok so i tried to enable Dynamic Boost and i believe that this might be the issue as this is what i get after doing all the steps and checking the status:

e :~$ systemctl status nvidia-powerd.service
● nvidia-powerd.service - nvidia-powerd service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-powerd.service; enabled; pr>
Active: active (running) since Wed 2025-11-19 14:20:03 EET; 6min ago
Main PID: 1389 (nvidia-powerd)
Tasks: 5 (limit: 37380)
Memory: 6.8M (peak: 7.8M)
CPU: 836ms
CGroup: /system.slice/nvidia-powerd.service
└─1389 /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd

Nov 19 14:20:03 e-OMEN-MAX-Gaming-Laptop-16-ak0xxx systemd[1]: Started nvidia-p>
Nov 19 14:20:03 e-OMEN-MAX-Gaming-Laptop-16-ak0xxx nvidia-powerd[1389]: nvidia->
Nov 19 14:20:03 e-OMEN-MAX-Gaming-Laptop-16-ak0xxx nvidia-powerd[1389]: DBus Co>
Nov 19 14:20:03 e-OMEN-MAX-Gaming-Laptop-16-ak0xxx nvidia-powerd[1389]: ERROR! >
lines 1-14/14 (END)…skipping…
● nvidia-powerd.service - nvidia-powerd service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-powerd.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2025-11-19 14:20:03 EET; 6min ago
Main PID: 1389 (nvidia-powerd)
Tasks: 5 (limit: 37380)
Memory: 6.8M (peak: 7.8M)
CPU: 836ms
CGroup: /system.slice/nvidia-powerd.service
└─1389 /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd

Nov 19 14:20:03 e-OMEN-MAX-Gaming-Laptop-16-ak0xxx systemd[1]: Started nvidia-powerd.service - nvidia-powerd service.
Nov 19 14:20:03 e-OMEN-MAX-Gaming-Laptop-16-ak0xxx nvidia-powerd[1389]: nvidia-powerd version:2.0 (build 1)
Nov 19 14:20:03 e-OMEN-MAX-Gaming-Laptop-16-ak0xxx nvidia-powerd[1389]: DBus Connection is established
Nov 19 14:20:03 e-OMEN-MAX-Gaming-Laptop-16-ak0xxx nvidia-powerd[1389]: ERROR! Client (presumably SBIOS) has requested to disable Dynamic Boost DC controller

The last line about the sBIOS turning off Dynamic Boost is pretty weird and i would greatly appreciate help on the matter
Thanks a lot !

[jimrd]

That’s getting beyond my abilities unfortunately. If you run nvidia-smi -q -d POWER again, have any of the power limits changed since enabling the service? The error regarding the Dynamic Boost DC controller could be nothing to worry about, as DC implies running on battery power, whereas AC would be plugged in, so I suspect the system firmware is just reporting that dynamic boost is not supported when on battery (DC) power.

[Blondinka]

Haha that’s alright i still am grateful for your help and no no changes were done on any of the power limits and as i already said im always running on AC so as you said it shouldnt affect anything. I also used to be able to login on x11 now i can’t which is a little strange but even so on X11 there was no change.
Anyone else reading that any help would be greatly appreciated ! : )