RTX 3060 Mobile Power Limit Increase?

[Kenji]

Hello Together

I own a Dell XPS 9710 with an NVIDIDA RTX 3060 Mobile GPU. Through various things like undervolting and repast, I was able to significantly reduce the temperature at max load.
At maximum load (60W), the GPU is at around 70°, where it is also kept and does not increase. However, the GPU does not draw more than 60W at any load.


And my question, which might also be a little stupid, is whether the power limit could be overridden with a flash.
Below I have linked you to a link with the Bios version and Target: 80.0 W Limit: 85.0 W. Would this be possible?
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NVIDIA RTX 3060 Mobile VBIOS

6 GB GDDR6, 900 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

lg. Phil

 

[Dr. Dro]

I would not, given you have a XPS series laptop and they are designed to be thin and light. If you get 70C at 60W, you will likely cross 90 at 80W... not to mention your AC adapter might not cope.

What you are doing here is wrong, anyway. You don't just add more offset to the GPU like you are doing, that is actually more likely to lower your maximum effective boost because you are just overboosting and not managing what actually increases consumption and generates heat - excess voltage. You should hit Ctrl+F in Afterburner and create a custom v/f curve, this is how you overclock Ampere. Set the offset to -300 to bring the whole curve down, pick a point for the maximum voltage you want and drag to the corresponding clock

For example, my G15 5515 has a 3050 (non-Ti) rated for 80W, I use 0.943V at 2070 MHz target, it averages around 2055MHz with +502 on memory, at these settings I get around 60-65W in Time Spy:

It performs amazing, too, with nice, flat clocks, this is what you want:

Good luck, try to keep it under 1.0V for best results, and make a profile at the sweet spot for maximum voltage vs. frequency, which should be at around 0.8v - and another one that sacrifices efficiency a bit for maximum clocks, cheers

 

[Kenji]

I have now tried this out. But I did not get a "better" result with less voltage. Enclosed I have made a summary of the 3 results

+140 / Stock / -300 Mhz

lg

 

[eidairaman1]

Buy a true laptop, not a notebook.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I have now tried this out. But I did not get a "better" result with less voltage. Enclosed I have made a summary of the 3 results

+140 / Stock / -300 Mhz

lg

If you did just -300 and didn't then press Ctrl+F and set up your curve using the editor window, then that is no surprise, all you managed to do was slow your GPU down. The -300 is intended to lower the v/f curve so you have a starting point to configure your v/f curve with the editor.

Your pdf doesn't show the settings you used in Afterburner, either... notice how my screenshot has a flatlined red line (the one that represents GPU clocks) and yours is all over the place? Either way you should have tempered expectations about what your laptop will do, it is not a gaming system and it was not designed for heavy graphics workloads, the XPS series are more aimed at being "premium entertainment" computers.