Hi, thank you everybody for reading. The short version of my problem is, that my graphics card doesn’t utilizes the maximum power limit if it is over the default power limit. In essence this is a refresh of an older topic of mine with additional trouble shooting. Power limit with CoreCtrl
So, i like to overclock. I use CoreCtrl to OC my Asus ROG Strix 590 8GB. This works fine to change voltages, clocks and fan curves. I also have the option enabled to modify the power limit, unfortunately changes to this parameter are not really applied by the card.
The default power limit is 185 Watt which responds to 175-180 Watt real world usage. If I lower the 185 to 165 for example, this change is accepted and power consumption will be capped. Any number greater than 185 has no impact.
I’ve confirmed that the value that CoreCtrl assigns is applied at the usual place. According to this Arch Wiki article, power1_cap holds the maximum value for power consumption. CoreCtrl does indeed change this value to the right amount as specified.
I’ve also checked if power profiles have any influence, but they don’t. I got the same results in the profiles 3D_FULL_SCREEN, VR and COMPUTE.
To see if this is a Manjaro specific issue i also tested this with a Kubuntu 21.10 Live System, using the Unigine Superposition benchmark as a means to max out power consumption. The behaviour is the same as with Manjaro.
For confirmation that this is not a hardware issue I tested the card with Windows. Using the official AMD tools I was able to raise the power limit and the card does indeed consume more power as monitored with RivaTuner and through actual performance. Temperatures are also well within specs, ranging from 65-80 °C.
I tried changing power1_cap_default but this action is not permitted.
I would be interested if anyone has experienced a similar problem to this, or maybe has a solution or another aspect to this. To me it seems like there’s a bug somewhere in the system, maybe the amdgpu driver. If so, where and how could i create a bug report for this? Searching for it didn’t give me some clear information to this.
Methodology:
For changes in power limit settings:
CoreCtrl, manually with
echo 227000000 > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/hwmon/hwmon2/power1_cap
To provoke power bottlenecking:
Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, Horizon - Zero Dawn, Unigine Superposition benchmark
Maximum OC settings are:
GPU 1590Mhz@1,15V
Memory 2000Mhz
Appended is an inxi output for my system.
Thank you all very much for your help.
System:
Kernel: 5.16.14-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64
root=UUID=d0dcf297-8999-484d-b070-738c7c120b94 ro quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 radeon.si_support=0
amdgpu.si_support=1 amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.3 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3 info: latte-dock
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B450 Gaming K4
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P4.20
date: 06/19/2020
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K270
serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1
model: Logitech Marathon Mouse/Performance Plus M705 serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.55 GiB used: 5.96 GiB (38.3%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x8701021
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB
L3: 32 MiB desc: 2x16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4366 high: 4367 min/max: 2200/5114 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: ondemand cores: 1: 4366 2: 4367
3: 4365 4: 4367 5: 4367 6: 4367 7: 4366 8: 4366 9: 4366 10: 4367 11: 4366
12: 4367 bogomips: 104853
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total
cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid
f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs
irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe
msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae
pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb
pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a
rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse
sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce
topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme
vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: DP-1
empty: DP-2, DVI-D-1, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 0a:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Microdia USB Live camera type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-2:3 chip-ID: 0c45:6536
class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.0
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-1 res: 3440x1440 size: N/A modes: N/A
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 590 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.44.0
5.16.14-1-MANJARO LLVM 13.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.7 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0a:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASRock
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 0c:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Microdia USB Live camera type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-2:3 chip-ID: 0c45:6536
class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.14-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8192EE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8192ee
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:818b class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: c000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp9s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 5.12 TiB used: 3.09 TiB (60.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WDS200T2B0C-00PXH0 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 21705000 temp: 43.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: A-Data model: SP610 size: 476.94 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 2C scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 120GB
size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: MBR
ID-5: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD20EZRZ-00Z5HB0 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
rev: 0A80 scheme: GPT
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TSSTcorp model: DVD+-RW TS-H653G rev: DW10
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 1.34 TiB size: 1.31 TiB (98.36%) used: 962.78 GiB (71.6%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 label: N/A
uuid: d0dcf297-8999-484d-b070-738c7c120b94
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
used: 30.8 MiB (32.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 label: N/A
uuid: A6F3-B5A5
ID-3: /mnt/216471125F774515 raw-size: 495.83 GiB
size: 495.83 GiB (100.00%) used: 339.11 GiB (68.4%) fs: ntfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A uuid: 216471125F774515
ID-4: /mnt/2E6C9FBC6C9F7D71 raw-size: 909.33 GiB
size: 909.33 GiB (100.00%) used: 301.65 GiB (33.2%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sdc5
maj-min: 8:37 label: Dat neuer Speicher uuid: 2E6C9FBC6C9F7D71
ID-5: /mnt/C4EF0007EEFFF012 raw-size: 110.71 GiB
size: 110.71 GiB (100.00%) used: 104.42 GiB (94.3%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sdb4
maj-min: 8:20 label: Dat Gehirn uuid: C4EF0007EEFFF012
ID-6: /mnt/EE7ED4C57ED4882B raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%)
used: 1.43 TiB (78.4%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sdd2 maj-min: 8:50 label: Oschi
uuid: EE7ED4C57ED4882B
ID-7: /run/media/green/f4718ab4-6763-4b26-aab7-ee7d93c8c71e
raw-size: 476.93 GiB size: 468.38 GiB (98.21%) used: 12 KiB (0.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: f4718ab4-6763-4b26-aab7-ee7d93c8c71e
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 300 MiB fs: ntfs
label: Wiederherstellung uuid: 942EF2FC2EF2D5E8
ID-2: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 size: 128 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-3: /dev/sdb5 maj-min: 8:21 size: 577 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 8820696E206963E2
ID-4: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 size: 1 KiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-5: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 size: 21.98 GiB fs: ntfs label: SAMSUNG_REC
uuid: C2AEEB2DAEEB18A5
ID-6: /dev/sdd1 maj-min: 8:49 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 10 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 3-1:2 info: VIA Labs Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 2109:2811 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1.2:4 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver
type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 3-2:3 info: Microdia USB Live camera type: Video,Audio
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 0c45:6536 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 4-1:2 info: VIA Labs Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 2109:8110 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 65.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 645
Info:
Processes: 343 Uptime: 3h 44m wakeups: 74 Init: systemd v: 250
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 alt: 10 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 2168
pacman: 2164 lib: 558 flatpak: 4 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.15