GPU P2 power state

[Jackal24]

One of my unraid servers has a 1660 Super that won't go to power state p0. The highest it goes (using tdarr/plex) is p2. My other server has a 1060TI and it actually transcodes faster, but it has a p0 power state.

 

How can I get the 1660 Super to go to p0?

[BlinkerFluid]

spaceinvader just posted a way to script this a few weeks and it works. Pre-emptively did this for my nvidia card when installing unraid last week - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD6G-tpsyKw

 

Edited April 25, 2022 by BlinkerFluid

[Jackal24]

2 hours ago, BlinkerFluid said:

spaceinvader just posted a way to script this a few weeks and it works. Pre-emptively did this for my nvidia card when installing unraid last week - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD6G-tpsyKw

 

That works for getting it to go to p8 (idle) when not in use, but it doesn't help me to get to p0 (full power) instead of p2 when being used.

[BlinkerFluid]

On 4/25/2022 at 8:51 PM, Jackal24 said:

That works for getting it to go to p8 (idle) when not in use, but it doesn't help me to get to p0 (full power) instead of p2 when being used.

I totally misread this thread yesterday. So there is a thing called force p2 state in the windows world for nvidia cards in the 1xxx series. I wonder if the same thing is going on here and that is why you can't get it out of that power level state. I assume you have tried running more transcode workers on it in tdarr and it is just stuck there?

[Jackal24]

27 minutes ago, BlinkerFluid said:

I totally misread this thread yesterday. So there is a thing called force p2 state in the windows world for nvidia cards in the 1xxx series. I wonder if the same thing is going on here and that is why you can't get it out of that power level state. I assume you have tried running more transcode workers on it in tdarr and it is just stuck there?

I have tried loading it up with no change to the power state.

[Indi]

Did you ever find a solution to this? I want to just force my GPU into P0 at all times if possible, doesn't really matter to me. 

[Jackal24]

3 hours ago, Indi said:

Did you ever find a solution to this? I want to just force my GPU into P0 at all times if possible, doesn't really matter to me. 

No. Mine always shows P2 no matter if it is at idle or fully loaded.

[Jackal24]

Just put a 3050 in and it is also stuck at p2.

[ShadowVlican]

same, 1660 Super and the highest I ever see it go (during Plex transcodes and Stable Diffusion) is P2

[Vyperious]

Thought was just me, anyone find a solution?

[Leifur]

I am facing the same issue... The GPU will simply not enter anything except p2-p8...

[M1llenia]

I am having an identical issue. I have a GTX 1660 Super that's refusing to go any higher than P2. It was stuck at P2 permanently, but now it does go down to P8 on idle after I set up Spaceinvaderone's Nvidia Powersave script, but I can't get it to go up to P0 even under load, and it looks like my workloads are being pretty heavily limited by this.

 

I also tried switching to the open source driver but that didn't seem to do anything.