TuxClocker 1.0 Released As An Alternative Way Of NVIDIA GPU Overclocking On Linux

[timofonic]

I wonder if this can have a gray area module to use the broken signing hack

I hope so. Let's hack all the binary crap from all those nasty companies! It deserves to be hacked and reverse engineered to the extreme.

[RealNC]

I too wonder what is the supposed benefit of this app over the existing Nvidia X Server Settings application installed by default with the drivers. It is a GUI also and has all the capabilities of this TuxClocker application. It can set fan speeds and set the memory and core clock overclocks. You can set power limits via nvidia-smi and the command line.

Read the "Features" section on the github page.

[Lurkki]

Not sure what you mean by 'parametrizing`. Fan speeds can be set on Auto, or use a slider to set the speed in the GUI. The X Server Settings app displays the 'slowdown' temp for the device. Not sure if this is equivalent to what you call shutdown temp.

By that I mean that the fan speed can depend on the GPU temperature for example. Shutdown temperature is a different thing, for me it's 3 degrees higher than the slowdown temperature.

[Keith Myers]

Not sure what you mean by 'parametrizing`. Fan speeds can be set on Auto, or use a slider to set the speed in the GUI. The X Server Settings app displays the 'slowdown' temp for the device. Not sure if this is equivalent to what you call shutdown temp.

The power limits can be set via nvidia-smi and the core and memory clocks and the fan speeds can be set by the nvidia-settings application. Both apps can be called in a script for example. This is the one I use on this daily driver for my BOINC computing.

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/nvidia-smi -pm 1

nvidia-smi -i 0 -pl 300
nvidia-smi -i 1 -pl 300
#nvidia-smi -i 2 -pl 200

/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=1"
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:1]/GPUPowerMizerMode=1"
#/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:2]/GPUPowerMizerMode=1"

/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GPUFanControlState=1"
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[fan:0]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100"
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[fan:1]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100"
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:1]/GPUFanControlState=1"
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[fan:2]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100"
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[fan:3]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100"
#/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:2]/GPUFanControlState=1"
#/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[fan:4]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=85"
#/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[fan:5]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=90"

/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GPUMemoryTransferRateOffset[4]=500" -a "[gpu:0]/GPUGraphicsClockOffset[4]=60"
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:1]/GPUMemoryTransferRateOffset[4]=1000" -a "[gpu:1]/GPUGraphicsClockOffset[4]=60"
#/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:2]/GPUMemoryTransferRateOffset[4]=800" -a "[gpu:2]/GPUGraphicsClockOffset[4]=60"

[Lurkki]

At a guess there are two purposes for this: (1) Create a unified API to access power management across AMD/Intel/Nvidia. (2) Maybe someday there will be an Nvidia Open Source driver, so we need a OS GUI to control the fans.

The motivation for this release was frustrations with the 0.1.1 GUI, since hardcoded sliders aren't very flexible when AMD GPUs have a varying number of editable pstates; and available Nvidia GPU properties vary too, eg. you can have 1 or 2 fans.

The other reason is that there are a lot of programs that in the end do the same thing: monitor and change your hardware parameters. The plugin system facilitates multiple kinds of devices being supported in one program.

[Lurkki]

I too wonder what is the supposed benefit of this app over the existing Nvidia X Server Settings application

With regards to Nvidia, the advantage is that it shows a couple properties missing from nvidia-settings GUI, namely shutdown temperature, memory utilization (not % VRAM used), voltage reading and setting (where supported) and as you say, power limits.

nvidia-settings also doesn't have parametrizing fan speed or other properties. Not sure it can load overclock settings from a profile for example but that's not easily discoverable at least.

[OneTimeShot]

At a guess there are two purposes for this: (1) Create a unified API to access power management across AMD/Intel/Nvidia. (2) Maybe someday there will be an Nvidia Open Source driver, so we need a OS GUI to control the fans.

[Keith Myers]

I too wonder what is the supposed benefit of this app over the existing Nvidia X Server Settings application installed by default with the drivers. It is a GUI also and has all the capabilities of this TuxClocker application. It can set fan speeds and set the memory and core clock overclocks. You can set power limits via nvidia-smi and the command line.

[Beryesa]

I wonder if this can have a gray area module to use the broken signing hack

[Barley9432]

It's not clear what the benefit is for NVIDIA users over NVIDIA's existing tools? Is it just because it has a GUI?