Why is the actual power much greater than the maximum power

Graphics / Linux Linux
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model: colorful 3060ti adoc

Set the maximum power to 140w but the actual power is more tha 200w

# nvidia-smi -i 1
Thu Jun 30 09:27:03 2022       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 510.60.02    Driver Version: 510.60.02    CUDA Version: 11.6     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   1  NVIDIA GeForce ...  On   | 00000000:04:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|100%   80C    P2   237W / 140W |   5175MiB /  8192MiB |    100%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
2

What’s the power display while idle?

4

thanks, just 38w when the card is idle.

# nvidia-smi -i 1
Fri Jul  1 08:31:37 2022       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 510.60.02    Driver Version: 510.60.02    CUDA Version: 11.6     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   1  NVIDIA GeForce ...  On   | 00000000:04:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 49%   46C    P3    38W / 140W |      0MiB /  8192MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
5

Looks like you’re running headless, please setup nvidia-persistenced to start on boot and check if that resolves the issue.

6

I had set persistence mode with ‘nvidia-smi -pm 1’.

# nvidia-smi -i 1 -q

==============NVSMI LOG==============
Timestamp                                 : Sun Jul  3 11:46:17 2022
Driver Version                            : 510.60.02
CUDA Version                              : 11.6

Attached GPUs                             : 2
GPU 00000000:04:00.0
    Product Name                          : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    Product Brand                         : GeForce
    Product Architecture                  : Ampere
    Display Mode                          : Disabled
    Display Active                        : Disabled
    Persistence Mode                      : Enabled
    MIG Mode
        Current                           : N/A
        Pending                           : N/A
    Accounting Mode                       : Disabled
    Accounting Mode Buffer Size           : 4000
    Driver Model
        Current                           : N/A
        Pending                           : N/A
    Serial Number                         : N/A
    GPU UUID                              : GPU-8d3b43ec-a4fd-f07a-a264-f4a9de50aef8
    Minor Number                          : 1
    VBIOS Version                         : 94.04.46.40.D9
    MultiGPU Board                        : No
    Board ID                              : 0x400
    GPU Part Number                       : N/A
    Module ID                             : 0
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I have 2 cards,the another one is prospective.

# nvidia-smi
Sun Jul  3 11:52:18 2022       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 510.60.02    Driver Version: 510.60.02    CUDA Version: 11.6     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 ...  On   | 00000000:03:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 79%   67C    P2   139W / 140W |   5183MiB /  8192MiB |    100%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  NVIDIA GeForce ...  On   | 00000000:04:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|100%   81C    P2   232W / 140W |   5183MiB /  8192MiB |    100%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
8

Has anyone encountered a similar problem?

9

The problem is solved.
Flashed another BIOS with Nvflash.
Thanks @generix

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