GPu wattage 40WATTS in idle

[IonutCristi]

is there a bios for the Gigabyte gtx 1050 TI g1 gaming card to fix the high idle power consumption?

pls help! On this site says this graphics card must draw only 5 watts on idle

Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming 4 GB Review

Gigabyte's GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming is a highly overclocked custom design variant by the company, featuring a dual-fan cooler that provides excellent temperatures and incredibly low noise levels at the same time. During desktop work and media playback, the fans even stop completely.

www.techpowerup.com

 

[GerKNG]

that must be a readout error.
your fans are off, it's a small GPU and ait pulls 50W while staying at 33°C? that's not a thing. (and that PCIe Slot Voltage is extremely low... like PC would refuse to work low)

 

[IonutCristi]

that must be a readout error.
your fans are off, it's a small GPU and ait pulls 50W while staying at 33°C? that's not a thing. (and that PCIe Slot Voltage is extremely low... like PC would refuse to work low)

the MSI Afterburner says 48 watts too in idle.. is there a solution to fix that?

 

[GerKNG]

there is either something broken on your GPU or your motherboard...
the voltage does not make any sense, the power draw does not make any sense (it does not pull ~50W).

 

[IonutCristi]

there is either something broken on your GPU or your motherboard...
the voltage does not make any sense, the power draw does not make any sense (it does not pull ~50W).

u mean at reading or?

whatever I do on the 47 48 watt video card pulls

 

[GerKNG]

u mean at reading or?

whatever I do on the 47 48 watt video card pulls

the GPU does not pull over 40W of power at idle. and again. the 9.6V are so low that your PC would not even work.

if the card still works without issues i would ignore it to be honest.

 

[IonutCristi]

this is the gpu voltage hmm better i would test the power consumption in idle with a wattmeter

 

[GerKNG]

This Voltage should be 12V
at 9.5V your PC would not even work anymore. this is as wrong as the power consumption.
And then the fact that the GPU reports 0.0% TDP non stop with no outlier shows that there is a problem with the current measurement as well. (even at idle it will never show 0.0%)
the GPU temperature is way too low for 50W without any active cooling (fans are off)

This Card has probably a board level issue and not a software problem. (considering that this is the stock bios)

 

[IonutCristi]

I had I don't know which driver from gigabyte and it showed me TDP 30% but after I uninstalled that driver and installed this new one from nvidia now it shows TDP at 0

i don t know what is happening here

 

[DR4G00N]

My Evga GTX 1050 does the same thing, it seems to just be the card or driver misreporting the power draw. Full load power draw reads correctly as far as I can see.
Ignore the 12v rail voltages and TDP as they don't seem to work at all.

 

[Harthad]

go to nvidia control panel, go to 3D parameters, scroll down until you find "Power management mode"
set to normal
reboot shouldn't be necessary , but then look in gpuz again and see if it still reads 50 watts idle

 

[IonutCristi]

go to nvidia control panel, go to 3D parameters, scroll down until you find "Power management mode"
set to normal
reboot shouldn't be necessary , but then look in gpuz again and see if it still reads 50 watts idle

not working, still 50 watts in idle dosen t matter if its on low power or maximum performance..

 

[Toothless]

Just ignore the reading. Sensor or software issue.

 

[cvaldes]

This happens periodically one of my graphics cards (GeForce RTX 3050) but only after a driver upgrade. It idles around 30W while it should be more like 6W. You need a clean installation of the GPU driver.

Download the latest driver from Nvidia as well as Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) from Wagnardsoft.

Disable your network connection, uninstall your existing driver software using DDU and reboot. With the network still disabled, install the graphics card driver from the downloaded Nvidia package and reboot.

Verify idle power draw and then enable networking.

 

[Vayra86]

I had I don't know which driver from gigabyte and it showed me TDP 30% but after I uninstalled that driver and installed this new one from nvidia now it shows TDP at 0

i don t know what is happening here

Ahem, driver? Or BIOS?

But as long as that card is performing as it should (as in, it will game at the FPS it used to do), ignore it and move on - OR return it to the original bios.

If its only a driver, just ignore it until you see actual problems. Sensors can also go bad, which means you can't fix it at all, but the card will still work fine.

 

[IonutCristi]

Ahem, driver? Or BIOS?

But as long as that card is performing as it should (as in, it will game at the FPS it used to do), ignore it and move on - OR return it to the original bios.

If its only a driver, just ignore it until you see actual problems. Sensors can also go bad, which means you can't fix it at all, but the card will still work fine.

i tried to search a stock bios for my gtx 1050 ti and i didin t found

Ahem, driver? Or BIOS?

But as long as that card is performing as it should (as in, it will game at the FPS it used to do), ignore it and move on - OR return it to the original bios.

If its only a driver, just ignore it until you see actual problems. Sensors can also go bad, which means you can't fix it at all, but the card will still work fine.

can you tell me where i can find a stock bios for this card?

 

[Toothless]

Flashing the vbios isn't going to help anything. Card doesn't have a serious issue and all you're doing is risking bricking it.

 

[AsRock]

the GPU does not pull over 40W of power at idle. and again. the 9.6V are so low that your PC would not even work.

if the card still works without issues i would ignore it to be honest.

You be better off getting a kill-a-watt and get the system total, or if you have a UPS which might be able to tell you.

 

[HRPF]

I also ran into this problem, my graphics card is ASUS EXPEDITION GTX 1050 Ti, all monitoring software shows idle power consumption around 35 watts.

I tried fully uninstall driver, the power consumption is still 35 watts.
I also want to try installing a different version of vBIOS, but haven't tried it yet because I'm afraid of bricking it.

I am using Windows 11 and the motherboard is MAXSUN TERMINATOR B760M. If I remember correctly it seems to be showing normal power consumption values on my other Windows 10 (ASUS B250M) PC (which is not with me right now). Could this be related to the motherboard/BIOS/Windows?