Hey everyone, I recently made a post about a new PC build. I was successful in building the PC. The specs are: ryzen 7 7800x3d and an 4070 ti super, 32 gigs of ddr5 ram, with an 850 watt PSU. I have booted up a couple games and have configured mango hud to make sure I’m getting the right performance. As far as I can tell, everything is running as it should. But, if you look at the picture provided, mangohud is showing that I’m currently throttling in power and temps. But looking at the above numbers I don’t see how I’m throttling. Out of the games I’ve tested, black myth wukong, Hogwarts and silent hill 2 show I’m throttling. However, dead space remake, shadow of the tomb raider and ghost of Tsushima don’t show im throttling. I’m confused by this and am wondering if it’s a bug in mangohud?

EDIT: I’m on Linux mint. Kernal 6.8.0-52 EDIT2: doing some more research, I found this post https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/13z1ov1/how_do_i_resolve_throttling_power_issue/

Which says that the throttling is actually what I should expect and it shows I’m getting the most out of my PC. So maybe I misunderstood

  • nef@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    48 seconds ago

    Are you sure vsync is disabled? It looks like you’re getting a very consistent 144fps.

    I personally keep vsync enabled, but you should absolutely disable it if you’re testing your hardware since it forces the fps to never exceed you monitor’s refresh rate.

    As for throttling, it’s only useful as a diagnosis tool. First and foremost you should be finding other people’s benchmarks of your hardware (cpu/gpu) and running those benchmarks yourself at the same settings. Phoronix is a great resource for Linux benchmarks.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I’m not familiar with that program. How does it determine “throttling”?

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I can answer this this is what you want it means you already pushing your card to its max and is limited by the power limit of the card. So if your wattage matches your cards rating then you are good.

    You may need to fix mango hub in order to see the wattage on your gpu.

    NVIDIA has issues reporting correctly so you may need to check in the Nvidia control panel to get the wattage.

    • WeebLife@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 hours ago

      I don’t think so. I booted up a 2d side scroller game with the GPU usage at 40% and CPU at 9% and it still says I’m throttling just sitting at the main menu. I did put GPU power in mangohud but it always shows 0 watts.

      • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Yeah with Nvidia mango hub doesn’t play nice all the time do you see any metrics with nvtop?

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago
    1. Do you have any power profile manager installed?
    2. Check if the amd pstate module is loaded: lsmod | grep pstate
    3. What distro and kernel are you running?