Nvidia smi on driver version 570 on ubuntu 24.04.2 shows wrong power consumption when running for the first time after boot
when booting the computer and checking nvidia-smi soon after logging into the computer, running nvidia-smi for the first time after boot will cause it to show a power consumption figure of 752w like this:
Fri Mar 7 21:08:26 2025
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| 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 3060 … Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 40C P0 752W / 80W | 2MiB / 6144MiB | 5% Default |
| | | N/A |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+
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| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| No running processes found |
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if you try to run nvidia-smi afterwards the issue dissappears, unless you don’t check nvidia-smi afterwards for around 1 minute and then try again, in which case the same issue happens again. i have a lenovo 15ach6h laptop with an nvidia rtx 3060 mobile graphics card
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