Ubuntu 20.04 - NVIDIA GPU consuming power even when using only integrated graphics card (Intel iGPU)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-prime (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
The issue is pretty simple: using Nvidia X Sever Settings GUI to switch from NVIDIA GPU to Intel iGPU doesn't work and the NVIDIA GPU does still consume some power after rebooting and, as a consequence, it generates uneccesary heat. Same thing (obviously) happens if I use prime-select from the terminal. I can see from powertop that when I have everything on idle, I am still consuming around 18-22W which is at least 10W more than I would expect.
This seems to be a rather old bug and supposedly it got "fixed". I can find at least two launchpad bug reports (https:/
Someone else here recently posted about this issue again -> https:/
I used to have another Optimus laptop years ago and I remember it worked fine in older Ubuntu versions but now something seems wrong.
Config:
- Zephyrus M16, 11800H, 3070
- Ubuntu 20.04 (but same problem with 21.10)
- Nvidia Driver 470 and 460 tested.