Possible dynamic boost bug for Nvidia laptops
So I’ve been trying for a good chunk of today to get my TDP boost working properly since I reinstalled the bazzite desktop. My GPU was maxing out at 115W accross 5 games and it was a noticeable drop in FPS vs windows.
I ran Nvidia-smi to see what’s up and kept getting a return of 115W for my max TDP with the 3070 Mobile. It’s max TDP is 125W+15W boost so it was actually falling shy of what it should do even without Nvidia-powerd. Well for some reason when I checked it about an hour ago with Nvidia-smi and I got a return of 125W. I don’t believe I changed anything but it went to the proper TDP on its own.
Seemed like progress so I just had to get the 15W boost working and while googling I learned about the Nvidia-powerd.service. Well I ran the command to check if it was already pre installed and got back confirmation that it was enabled. Ran another Nvidia-smi command to see what it says and now it says 140W max TDP. Checked it in a few games and sure enough it’s running substantially better.
I didn’t change a single setting throughout the process so I’m not sure what fixed it other than me running “systemctl status Nvidia-powerd.service” to check the status. I’m going to see if it stays at the proper setting until tomorrow but this seems worth looking into further. 115W vs 140w is a big difference
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one of those things where unless you find we actively misconfigured something, the answer is probably "oh well"
since it's all closed source garbage in the first place
keep us updated on what you find
That’s fair and makes sense. Im interested to see if it maintains the 140W so I’ll definitely let ya know
its actually quite repeatable. after reboot it does go back to 125W but once i run the nvidia-powerd.service check command its set to 140W. Could the service possibly not be loading properly? Example below
All Nvidia related problems can be fixed by switching to X11. Made the change last night and it fixed literally every issue i was having the last week. Wayland and my hardware dont mix well