The original post: /r/ubuntu by /u/D3tox69 on 2024-11-16 02:07:59.

Hi,

I am quite new to running a home server and have just set it up in the last couple months. I am a uni student who is just experimenting and noticed an issue with the power draw of the GPU in the system.

System Specs:

  • CPU: 3600x
  • GPU: RTX 2070
  • RAM: 32gb 3600mhz
  • Storage: 1tb NVME SSD, 250gb Sata SSD
  • OS: Ubuntu Server 24.04

When idling, the GPU is using 22W constantly. It is in P8 power state and has no processes running on it. I have tried multiple different things but cannot find a fix. See nvidia-smi output below

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 550.120 Driver Version: 550.120 CUDA Version: 12.4 |

|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

| 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 2070 On | 00000000:0A:00.0 On | N/A |

| 0% 49C P8 22W / 175W | 1MiB / 8192MiB |Uncorr0%ECC | Default |

| | | N/A |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| Processes: |

| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |

| ID ID Usage |

|=========================================================================================|

| No running processes found |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Any help would be greatly appreciated.