On windows, everybody uses afterburner to overclock/undervolt.

What options do we have on linux (I have an nvidia gpu)?

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    You cant under volt with Linux / NVIDIA But you can lower the power total power usage and maybe squeeze out some performance at lower temps that way.

    Personally, I use gamemode ( https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode/releases ) every time I launch a game. Leveraging the pre/post scripts section to optimize my desktop for gaming. In that pre script I “tune” my GPU using some commands found here.

    NVIDIA Cheat Sheet

    ( https://pastebin.com/ieJmnJDp )

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      Did you manage to get similar performance on Linux? Halo Infinite on windows 10 gives me an average of 150fps with medium settings, on Linux I get 70fps with he low prest and more stuttering. I use gamemode as well. My GPU is rtx 3070.

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        Slightly less performance on Linux most of the time but all within reason. Nothing like you’re reporting.

        If you’re using an NVIDIA card make sure to use X11 NOT Wayland. Disable the compositor before playing. Play full screen and not windowed. If you’re using a gsync monitor be sure gsync is enabled in NVIDIA-settings /advanced and you don’t have composition pipeline enabled.

        Overall I’ve been very happy with my 3090 on Linux. Minus the ongoing NVIDIA not playing nice with Wayland thing.

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          Would you be able to point me to some documentation to configure NVIDIA to use X11 and to enable NVIDIA-settings?

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    I’d also be interested in it. I got a work laptop that has a good battery, but it’s an i7 and I mainly need to SSH and use FF, so I think I could undervolt/underclock quite a bit.

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      Ubuntu has some pretty sensible presets for that, I use them by default when I’m on battery. It’s called power profile and there is performance, balanced, and power saver. The only application where responsiveness really suffers is gmail 🤡

      Pretty sure those are present in other distros, too. My understanding is that they really just limit per draw.

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    I’ve had some annoying coil whine lately, would really like to shut it up a little.

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    Thanks for asking. I stole this thread as an opportunity to ask :

    I have an AMD RX 580 (Mesa 22.3.6). Have you any recommended tool to underclock this GPU ?