[SOLVED] Nvidia 3060ti PState 8 idle power draw 19w?

[je82]

Hi,

 

I made the mistake of buying a 3060ti Gainward ghost card because it was the only one in stock and it had many rgb lights, i've managed via the command nvidia-smi -pm 1 to get the card to sleep at pstate 8, but it still draws 19watts in this mode.

 

Does anyone else have a 3060ti or a 3series card with pstate 8 and no rgb lights? My guess is that these rgbs are at least drawing 10 watts of power, could that be possible? I have no idea how much leds usually draw but looking at some other people who have nvidia cards in the same power state they have around 6-10 watts draw and not 19.

 

Follow up question, is there a way to disable the led lights via the nvidia driver? My guess is no because this i third party vendor card... i guess the only way to find out how much power these leds actually draw is to open the card up and find the power source to the led lights but that might be a gamble.

 

EDIT:

Ended up opening the box up again and removing the rgb power header cable which luckily was pretty straight forward with this card, voila 9w!

 

Edited August 6, 2021 by je82