Why every running CUDA programs force the GPU to P2 state. It’s really annoying:
- There is no way to disable that behavior. (no NVreg_* options in nvidia kernel module).
- It prevents power saving when decoding with NVDEC (GPU clock doesn’t decrease bellow base clock).
- It reduces GPU performance of CUDA programs and games during encoding sessions.
There are topics from 2017/2018 complaining about that:
- What's the situation with vdpau/vaapi/nvdec?
- NVDEC forces GPU into P2 CUDA state -> much higher power consumption than with VDPAU
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Increased power usage using hardware acceleration · Issue #74 · elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver · GitHub
and the situation never evolved.
A least add an option such as kernel parameters to disable “P2 forced” state when running CUDA.