NVIDIA GPU
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/rtx-3050-idle-power-too-high/310255
Driver
To check the driver used:
inxi -Gx
nvidia-smi
alex@exi > ~/Projects/asokolsky.github.io > main ± > nvidia-smi
Sun Apr 20 11:50:26 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.163.01 Driver Version: 550.163.01 CUDA Version: 12.4 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 0% 44C P3 25W / 130W | 520MiB / 8192MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1354 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 226MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2296 G cinnamon 37MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2644 G ...erProcess --variations-seed-version 110MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3066 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 131MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Driver/library version mismatch
alex@exi > ~/Downloads > nvidia-smi
Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch
alex@exi > ~/Downloads > cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 550.144.03 Mon Dec 30 17:44:08 UTC 2024
GCC version: gcc version 13.3.0 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04)
reboot helped