Okay so, just started running Kubuntu on my Lenovo Legion *something* laptop. It's got a good old AMD cpu with integrated graphics and a 3070 laptop gpu.
I've gone through all the steps to get my nvidia drivers up and running and they seem so far to be working great. Currently in on-demand mode with only a 4MiB process for Xorg running through my 3070. The thing is, my fans are definitely running a little higher on near-idle (Discord & Firefox open). Everything I'm finding is assuming I haven't got my 3070 in on-demand mode or that these processes are actually using my dedi gpu, but from what I can tell that's not the case?
nvidia-smi is also reporting my gpu to be sitting at 60C's, which seems a little high to me when it *in theory* shouldn't be doing anything?
glxinfo is also reporting that my AMD radeon graphics is doing the rendering, so I'm really not sure why my gpu is running like it is. My current working theory is that my GPU is just there, running even though it's not actually doing anything (I'm assuming 60C is probably idle for a 3070 laptop.) So right now, looking at ways to basically 'turn it off' and on when I need to, bash script maybe? Not confident with bash though and this might not even be the best way, I just stumbled across forum posts talking about unbinding the gpu (for other reasons) and thought maybe it would work?
Any help appreciated!
I've gone through all the steps to get my nvidia drivers up and running and they seem so far to be working great. Currently in on-demand mode with only a 4MiB process for Xorg running through my 3070. The thing is, my fans are definitely running a little higher on near-idle (Discord & Firefox open). Everything I'm finding is assuming I haven't got my 3070 in on-demand mode or that these processes are actually using my dedi gpu, but from what I can tell that's not the case?
nvidia-smi is also reporting my gpu to be sitting at 60C's, which seems a little high to me when it *in theory* shouldn't be doing anything?
glxinfo is also reporting that my AMD radeon graphics is doing the rendering, so I'm really not sure why my gpu is running like it is. My current working theory is that my GPU is just there, running even though it's not actually doing anything (I'm assuming 60C is probably idle for a 3070 laptop.) So right now, looking at ways to basically 'turn it off' and on when I need to, bash script maybe? Not confident with bash though and this might not even be the best way, I just stumbled across forum posts talking about unbinding the gpu (for other reasons) and thought maybe it would work?
Any help appreciated!
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