Nvidia 4060 - Laptop - Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04 - Forced Setting Questions

[mclaughlin-peter]

Did a restart, still on auto (surprisingly) after doing the write option and it wrote, and what not.

Did I miss a step?

Or?

Still on auto/adaptive incorrectly.

- RMLeLoupJR

[1fallen]

No you did not miss a step. But that window should have been empty, nothing there until you paste that code in there.
Anyway, lets have a peek at:

nvidia-smi -q -d PERFORMANCE

And:

nvidia-smi -q -d POWER

[mclaughlin-peter]

Also attached as screenshot.

rmleloupjr@rmleloupjr-Bravo-15-C7VFK:~$ nvidia-smi -q -d PERFORMANCE

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


Timestamp                                 : Wed May 22 09:47:38 2024
Driver Version                            : 535.171.04
CUDA Version                              : 12.2


Attached GPUs                             : 1
GPU 00000000:01:00.0
    Performance State                     : P8
    Clocks Event Reasons
        Idle                              : Active
        Applications Clocks Setting       : Not Active
        SW Power Cap                      : Not Active
        HW Slowdown                       : Not Active
            HW Thermal Slowdown           : Not Active
            HW Power Brake Slowdown       : Not Active
        Sync Boost                        : Not Active
        SW Thermal Slowdown               : Not Active
        Display Clock Setting             : Not Active
    Sparse Operation Mode                 : N/A


rmleloupjr@rmleloupjr-Bravo-15-C7VFK:~$ nvidia-smi -q -d POWER


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


Timestamp                                 : Wed May 22 09:47:52 2024
Driver Version                            : 535.171.04
CUDA Version                              : 12.2


Attached GPUs                             : 1
GPU 00000000:01:00.0
    GPU Power Readings
        Power Draw                        : 6.33 W
        Current Power Limit               : 80.00 W
        Requested Power Limit             : 80.00 W
        Default Power Limit               : 80.00 W
        Min Power Limit                   : 5.00 W
        Max Power Limit                   : 105.00 W
    Power Samples
        Duration                          : Not Found
        Number of Samples                 : Not Found
        Max                               : Not Found
        Min                               : Not Found
        Avg                               : Not Found
    Module Power Readings
        Power Draw                        : N/A
        Current Power Limit               : N/A
        Requested Power Limit             : N/A
        Default Power Limit               : N/A
        Min Power Limit                   : N/A
        Max Power Limit                   : N/A


rmleloupjr@rmleloupjr-Bravo-15-C7VFK:~$

Also attached as screenshot

[mclaughlin-peter]

Additionally, I did sudo su, sudo nvidia-settings, and had terminal/nvidia settings side by side, set performance, tried to save, with and without merge, and both resulted in these statements.

Does this, hint anything?

[1fallen]

Ok things have changed with nvidia and drivers, what we need to do is add this to session "autostart::
I'm not sure what cinnamon calls it.

nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GpuPowerMizerMode=1"

I named mine for an easy read "Nvidia Preformance"

[mclaughlin-peter]

Would it not be # 4, and not 1 for the power mizer? (Curious) or am I incorrect? (Clarifying)

[1fallen]

Set it as I showed "1" ie:

 nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GpuPowerMizerMode=4"

    Valid values for 'GPUPowerMizerMode' are: 0, 1 and 2.
    'GPUPowerMizerMode' can use the following target types: GPU.

The "1" setting achieves what your after>>"Max Performance"

[mclaughlin-peter]

An update:

I did:

nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GpuPowerMizerMode=1"

I did (copy paste) of what you suggested.

It changed it via terminal instead of by mouse from adaptive to performance. Cool.

Rebooted: And back to adaptive.

I'm uncertain how to auto force it at boot etc or equivalent. Basically we're getting "somewhere" but not the destination yet.

Thank you again,

- RMLeLoupJR

[1fallen]

You missed the most important part It needs to be in " startup applications" is that in your menu?

[mclaughlin-peter]

I feel dense,

Where do I start the procedure of nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GpuPowerMizerMode=1" --- for the startup? Where does this get entered, or ? I'm at a bit of a loss, as i'm unsure where to place it.