RTX5060 power limit stuck on 50W with nvidia open driver 575.57.08 on ubuntu 25.04

[yinondou]

I have a Lenovo Legion Pro 5 with an RTX5060 running on Ubuntu 25.04 with nvidia open driver version 575.57.08. Both when idle, and running a heavy workload such as training a machine learning model, nvidia-smi shows that the power limit is 50W while it should be 115W.

When training a machine learning model, GPU utilization reaches 100%, power reaches 50W out of 50W while the temperature of the GPU stays at 55-60 degrees (far from maximal allowed temperature AFAIK). When running nvidia-smi -q -d clock, it seems that the GPU clock speed is being throttled. Given the power and the temperature for such a workload, it seems that the maximal performance of the GPU is not being utilized.

I tried setting power limit using nvidia-smi -pl and it claims it’s not supported for this GPU.

nvidia-smi when idle:

I will post the output of nvidia-smi and nvidia-smi -q -d clock under workload later.

[Robert_Crovella]

@yinondou

while it should be 115W

I’m not sure how you reached that conclusion. I’m not aware that laptop manufacturers generally specify the TGP power of their designs in every case, but the laptop 5060 reviews I read suggest the TGP power (i.e. maximum continuous power draw) of the laptop 5060 is configurable according to the laptop manufacturer’s design to some value in the 45W to 100W range.

It’s possible that the lenovo 5060 laptop is designed and configured to limit to 50W based on that. I don’t happen to know exactly about the lenovo 5060 laptops. NVIDIA doesn’t publish such numbers for specific laptops. You could ask Lenovo, perhaps.

[yinondou]

This is the output of nvidia-smi -q -d power:

It’s clearly stated that the max power limit is 115W. Also, in Lenovo’s official website, it clearly states for this specific model, that the GPU’s TGP is 115W: https://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/Legion_Pro_5_16IRX10?M=83NN002GIV

[yinondou]

Alright, after some troubleshooting, I found out that running

sudo systemctl enable nvidia-powerd.service

And resetting, solved the problem for me, as can be seen in the below nvidia-smi, undear heavy workload (training a deep learning model)

Also, specifically for lenovo legion pro 5 gen 10 (my model), pressing fn+Q switches between 3 - different power profiles: one which limits the power to 40-50W one that limits to 80-90W and one that limits to 115W. Before the above systemctl command, the fn+Q shortcut had no effect.

I must state that before that, I had an issue with suspending the laptop after installing those drivers that was also solved by enabling nvidia-suspend service. Can it be that the driver installation forgets to enable some of those services?