Nvidia-smi reporting incorrect values for Max Clocks

Hello,

about my environment:

  • Palit GeForce RTX 4080 GamingPro OC
  • Ubuntu 24.10
  • nvidia-driver-560 (non-open) installed from Ubuntu repos via ‘ubuntu-drivers’ cmd tool
  • GSP disabled via kernel parameter ‘nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0’

The output of nvidia-smi is as follows.

# nvidia-smi -q -d CLOCK

==============NVSMI LOG==============

Timestamp                                 : Sat Oct 12 18:15:56 2024
Driver Version                            : 560.35.03
CUDA Version                              : 12.6

Attached GPUs                             : 1
GPU 00000000:01:00.0
    Clocks
        Graphics                          : 210 MHz
        SM                                : 210 MHz
        Memory                            : 405 MHz
        Video                             : 1185 MHz
    Applications Clocks
        Graphics                          : N/A
        Memory                            : N/A
    Default Applications Clocks
        Graphics                          : N/A
        Memory                            : N/A
    Deferred Clocks
        Memory                            : N/A
    Max Clocks
        Graphics                          : 3150 MHz
        SM                                : 3150 MHz
        Memory                            : 11201 MHz
        Video                             : 2415 MHz
    Max Customer Boost Clocks
        Graphics                          : N/A
    SM Clock Samples
        Duration                          : Not Found
        Number of Samples                 : Not Found
        Max                               : Not Found
        Min                               : Not Found
        Avg                               : Not Found
    Memory Clock Samples
        Duration                          : Not Found
        Number of Samples                 : Not Found
        Max                               : Not Found
        Min                               : Not Found
        Avg                               : Not Found
    Clock Policy
        Auto Boost                        : N/A
        Auto Boost Default                : N/A

The Max Clock of Graphics (shader) & SM (Streaming Multiprocessor) is reported to be 3150 MHz.

As per https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/40-series/rtx-4080-family/ the RTX 4080 has a boost clock of 2.51GHz, which is what I’d expect as Max Clock value for Graphics and SM.

Windows 10 3rd party tools report sane values for base and boost clocks. Is this an issue with nvidia-smi or am I missing something?