Nvidia GTX 1060 / idle temps

[BlueEagle]

Hi,
I recently upgraded my motherboard and my CPU from Asus H110I-plus / i5 6600 to Asrock B560M-itx / i5 11400. The rest, including my GTX 1060 (MSI, ITX-version, 6 GB) stayed exactly the same.

While I could enjoy low idle GPU temps with the passive fan at about 36-38°C, after the upgrade it's rather around 48-52°C for no apparent reason.

I'm using Linux Mint 20.1 and I tried the following, without success:
- Updating the NVidia driver to 460 from 450
- Setting the PowerMizer to "Adaptive" instead of "Auto"

Notes:
- Idle CPU temps are fine at about 30°C (new Noctua D9L fan in silent mode).
- Case airflow is good (NZXT H210 with 4 BeQuiet fans) and never was a problem before.
- I could measure that the actual total system power (idle) drain is about 15-20W higher as before.
- For no reason, the power state regularly goes to P0 / 24W drain, see result from nvidia-smi at the bottom of the post.
- On load, I now hear a small coil whine I had never heard before on this GPU.

Does anyone have an idea where to start to solve this annoying issue, which causes frequent starts-stops of the fan and drains power for nothing?

Thanks!
Alex


+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 460.39 Driver Version: 460.39 CUDA Version: 11.2 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 GeForce GTX 106... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 20% 52C P0 24W / 120W | 184MiB / 6075MiB | 1% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1592 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 123MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2090 G cinnamon 55MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 8787 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 9561 G /usr/bin/nvidia-settings 0MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

[Moonstone Man]

I could measure that the actual total system power (idle) drain is about 15-20W higher as before.

ObHint: Different motherboard, different CPU, completely different power characteristics.

Does anyone have an idea where to start to solve this annoying issue...

Annoying is relative.

Of course, you don't give us the necessary data (inxi -Fxz) to allow us to suggest that a different, higher version kernel, such as the latest 5.8, is required, so we come back full circle to the ObHint: Different motherboard, different CPU, completely different power characteristics. Nothing in Linux Mint will have caused this, except perhaps due to your not having installed a shiny new 5.8 series kernel for that shiny new i5-11400 CPU.

The other possible source of your annoyance is the nVidia driver. You have four basic choices, if the problem persists after upgrading the kernel to 5.8, a) drop back successive versions of the driver in case you find one that doesn't annoy you, b) don't use the nVidia driver at all but use the kernel modesetting driver instead, c) research to see if there are any xorg.conf settings that can be used to reduce your annoyance, d) go to a hardware site and talk about video card P states going to P0/24W drain, idle CPU temperatures, system power idle drain being 15-20W higher, and Noctua D9L fans in silent mode.

[BlueEagle]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll give the shiny kernel 5.8 a try.

Just in case, I'd gladly add my current inxi -Fxz:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-70-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa 
  base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B560M-ITX/ac serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: L1.32 date: 03/26/2021 
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 
  charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: N/A L2 cache: 12.0 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 62208 
  Speed: 801 MHz min/max: 800/4400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 
  3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 801 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 802 11: 800 12: 800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: nvidia v: 460.39 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: nvidia 
  resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.39 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:1f.3 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-70-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASRock driver: N/A port: efa0 
  bus ID: 00:1f.6 
  Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
  v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.37 TiB used: 582.34 GiB (41.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0B-00YS70 
  size: 465.76 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Crucial model: CT480M500SSD1 size: 447.13 GiB 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Crucial model: CT525MX300SSD1 size: 489.05 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 36.96 GiB used: 18.29 GiB (49.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3 
  ID-2: /home size: 428.51 GiB used: 126.53 GiB (29.5%) fs: btrfs 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 46 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0% 
Info:
  Processes: 382 Uptime: 5m Memory: 15.51 GiB used: 1.56 GiB (10.1%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 
  inxi: 3.0.38

[Moonstone Man]

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Kernel: 5.4.0-70-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll give the shiny kernel 5.8 a try.

That 5.8 kernel is essential for your CPU. It might not fix the issue, but it's still needed.