I just installed an Intel arc a770 16gb(asrock) but I have noticed the card is drawing about 60watts (my idle without the card is around 60w so the gpu is doubling my idle power while doing nothing except producing extra heat(the temps on one of nvme drives is about 8-12 F warmer) but even with that idle heat the cards fans stay stopped. I tested the card in plex transcoding 4k to 1080p and it worked fine, the cards fans only spun up a fraction of the time it was playing and I did notice power draw was about the same around 120w.

 

I have gpu top enabled and was able to see the processor was being used. I also have powertop installed and switched all my turnables to "good" but that didn't seem to make any difference. I also have all the aspm setting enabled on the bios asrock z790 taichi lite. 

 

literally the only reason I put a gpu in and got and intel arc is because they can draw under 1 watt in idle, I didn't want a gpu because of the high idle power but when I read about intel's low idle I got one (mainly for AI as my 14700k handles about any transcoing amazingly well and efficient)

 

 

 

 

Edited March 1, 20242 yr by ksullivan86

I have the same symptoms as my Intel A380, running in unraid 7.0.0-beta2. Had to switch back to my Tesla P4 because the A380 consumes ~18 watts at idle.

 

intel_gpu_top showed me `BUSY` as well. ASPM enabled and activated. Powertop --auto-tune applied.

Nobody else having this problem? Beta 3 has no improvements. 

Having the same issue, just upgraded to Unraid 7.0 and decided to reconnect my Arc A380 since the idle power draw was atrocious before; unfortunately seeing the same results again now.

EDIT: having monitored the power draw for a little longer now, it's definitely an improvement over the idle-draw from before the Unraid 7.0 upgrade. I'd say idle usage now seems to be hovering roughly between 15 - 30 watts. (I have to judge this based on the power draw from the server, as there doesn't seem to be any way to monitor the power draw from the GPU itself).

Edited January 11, 20251 yr by xorinzor

I'm having the exact same problem. I installed an Arc A380, and the idle power draw increased by 20W. Plex transcoding is working just fine, though.

 

Interestingly, in this video, Wolfgang only has an increase of 5W in idle power draw... (Results at 9:16)

 

has this issue been resolved in any way? threw out my ARC because of this.