I’m not that deep into it and as you noticed information on the issue is sparse. My understanding is that it is not possible to get power management working for these cards (see https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html). May not seem like a big deal, but as far as I understand this means the cards are stuck in the lowest power setting i.e. perform as well as an iGPU.
And from my understanding this is forced by Nvidia because power management is disabled when loading unsigned firmware.
That is my understanding of the situation. Due to this the devs basically gave up on those cards as it is unfixable.
Oh. I have seen in the FeatureMatrix list that the PowerManagement is not supported. I thought it was meant to be no “manual” management to switch the modes. Ok, if its stuck at lowest power, then its an issue. But maybe its not too bad, because I don’t want to game on that card anymore and the CPU does not have an integrated iGPU. So having the lowest power wouldn’t be even the worst thing to happen. But that is only my personal note here.
I just need to understand how much of crippling this actually is for real world usage. Guess I have to try and benchmark myself, just to see what it is capable of.
I’m not that deep into it and as you noticed information on the issue is sparse. My understanding is that it is not possible to get power management working for these cards (see https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html). May not seem like a big deal, but as far as I understand this means the cards are stuck in the lowest power setting i.e. perform as well as an iGPU.
And from my understanding this is forced by Nvidia because power management is disabled when loading unsigned firmware.
That is my understanding of the situation. Due to this the devs basically gave up on those cards as it is unfixable.
Oh. I have seen in the FeatureMatrix list that the PowerManagement is not supported. I thought it was meant to be no “manual” management to switch the modes. Ok, if its stuck at lowest power, then its an issue. But maybe its not too bad, because I don’t want to game on that card anymore and the CPU does not have an integrated iGPU. So having the lowest power wouldn’t be even the worst thing to happen. But that is only my personal note here.
I just need to understand how much of crippling this actually is for real world usage. Guess I have to try and benchmark myself, just to see what it is capable of.