Unable to unlock overclocking options for a Quadro P2000 Mobile

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hi,

I am trying to overclock my Quadro P2000 mobile, mostly out of curiosity. I am running a Lenovo P52, openSUSE Linux, Nvidia Drivers 430.26. I have enabled the Coolbits option in xorg.conf, as confirmed by the following ouptut in the system journal:

Jul 02 16:46:42 rombert /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[17828]: (II) NVIDIA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
Jul 02 16:46:42 rombert /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[17828]:         "nvidia" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
Jul 02 16:46:42 rombert /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[17828]: (==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
Jul 02 16:46:42 rombert /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[17828]: (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
Jul 02 16:46:42 rombert /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[17828]: (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
Jul 02 16:46:42 rombert /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[17828]: (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
Jul 02 16:46:42 rombert /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[17828]: (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
Jul 02 16:46:42 rombert /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[17828]: (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
Jul 02 16:46:42 rombert /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[17828]: (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "Coolbits" "8"
Jul 02 16:46:42 rombert /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[17828]: (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration

However, the overclocking option does not appear in nvidia-settings. As expected, the CLI does not work either

$ nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUGraphicsClockOffset[3]=50

ERROR: The attribute 'GPUGraphicsClockOffset' specified in assignment '[gpu:0]/GPUGraphicsClockOffset[3]=50' cannot be assigned (it is a read-only attribute).```

System information:

$ inxi -CG
CPU:       Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8850H bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 9216 KiB 
           Speed: 899 MHz min/max: 800/4300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 900 3: 893 4: 900 5: 890 6: 900 7: 897 8: 900 
           9: 900 10: 900 11: 900 12: 900 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GLM [Quadro P2000 Mobile] driver: nvidia v: 430.26 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: modesetting,nvidia resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Quadro P2000/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 430.26```

To my understanding this should work, and it is working on my desktop. Does anyone know whether this is a limitation of the specific card/laptop? Or maybe not supported by the drivers at all?

Any help would be appreciated.

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That feature is basically one for consumer geforce type products. Rarely works/is enabled on mobile chips due to power restrictions. Also I don’t know if this is working on Quadro type cards at all since those have the luxury feature to set clocks through nvidia-smi without fiddling with the xserver.

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Thanks generix. I am unable to set clocks higher using nvidia-smi as the highest values correspond to performance level 3.

Guess there is now way to overclock a Quadro P2000 Mobile.