Hi,
This does not seem to influence me in a meaningful way at the moment, but I noticed that with driver 570.124.06 on Ubuntu 24.04 on my laptop, I would see:
Sun Mar 9 09:49:29 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.124.06 Driver Version: 570.124.06 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 3050 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 48C P0 749W / 35W | 14MiB / 4096MiB | 8% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 3140 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
More in detail, I see:
GPU Power Readings
Average Power Draw : N/A
Instantaneous Power Draw : 749.67 W
Current Power Limit : 35.00 W
Requested Power Limit : 35.00 W
Default Power Limit : 35.00 W
Min Power Limit : 1.00 W
Max Power Limit : 45.00 W
It’s of course the 750 Watts that is the silly value. ;-)
People might very well be aware of this already, but with a quick search I couldn’t find an existing thread on it.
Cheers,
Attila