Nvidia power issues

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seems like there is lots of issues on nvidia power profiles and might e all nvidia side and drivers, but my nvidia cards power is soetimes 60W/40W or 20W as ax power and as now it only limits to 20W

phatle@fedora:~$ nvidia-smi
Fri Sep  6 09:59:30 2024       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 555.58.02              Driver Version: 555.58.02      CUDA Version: 12.5     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 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 3050 ...    Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   49C    P5             14W /   20W |       7MiB /   4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      3271      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                            1MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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It seems you may be worrying about the wrong thing.
Instead of worrying that the gpu does not have a higher power demand, you should be concerned that it does what is needed. If it performs up to what you expect then the lower power draw is a plus and not a negative.

The general trend for better electronics is to do more while using less power.

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