Hello, I have a new Lenovo Legion 5 Pro laptop with some problems. The problem is whichever thermal mode im on my GPU is stuck at 80 Watts TDP. My laptop 130 Watt capable at Performance mode. When i try to change the TDP using nvidia-smi i get an error about my GPU doesnt support TDP change by nvidia software. I bought this laptop only to use Linux only and im very sad about my purchase. Please help me find a way to change GPU TDP to performance levels of my laptop. This laptop has 3 levels of thermal modes named silent balanced and performance you can change modes usinf fn+q shortcut, on Linux doing so only changes CPU TDP to related levels but no matter what thermal mode im on GPU is always stuck at 80 Watts. Please Developers!

[image] [Lenovo Legion 5 RTX 3060, 460.x, 470.x, 495.x] Power draw stuck at 80W, Windows does 130W Linux Description of the problem from an attempted fix at GitHub - adnanpri/legion-wmi: A WMI driver for Lenovo Legion series of laptops Problem The Legion line of laptops from Lenovo come with the ability to switch power modes between “quiet”, “balanced” and “performance.” On Windows this feature works as expected and you can clearly see the performance differences across benchmarks. On Linux too this seems to work out of the box, with the exception of the Nvidia GPU. No matter what is attempted, t… Same issue.

Try run the command nvidia-smi -i 0 -q -d POWER which values are listed ?

nvidia-smi -i 0 -q -d POWER ==============NVSMI LOG============== Timestamp : Mon Oct 18 04:36:32 2021 Driver Version : 495.29.05 CUDA Version : 11.5 Attached GPUs : 1 GPU 00000000:01:00.0 Power Readings Power Management : N/A Power Draw : 12.68 W Power Limit : N/A Default Power Limit : N/A Enforced Power Limit : N/A Min Power Limit : N/A Max Power Limit : N/A Power Samples Duration : Not Found Number of Samples : Not Found Max : Not Found Min : Not Found Avg : Not Found

New laptop GPU TDP stuck at lower power levels

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user43 October 15, 2021, 11:20pm 2

Same issue.

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