Re: graphics card extra power plugs sensing - can it be reported in linux?

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From	Bev <indon@foodette.biz>
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Subject	Re: graphics card extra power plugs sensing - can it be reported in linux?
Date	Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:11:33 +0800
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John-Paul Stewart wrote:
> On 2022-11-09 04:55, Bev wrote:
>> inxi and sensors do not go into such detail.
>> I was curious, as monster cards will sense how much power is plugged in
>> and throttle the card if a connector is missing.
> 
> It depends on the graphics card.  At least some of Nvidia's cards will
> report total power consumption when using their proprietary drivers in
> conjunction with Nvidia's own graphical control panel app, nvidia-smi,
> or nvtop.
> 
> I don't know if there's something similar with the opensource drivers or
> for other brands of cards.
> 

Some more searching turned up something called Rick's GPU Util (or 
Rick-lab gpu util). It can show power consumption of AMD GPU.  It is not 
in many linux repos, so I will have to get from github and compile.

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graphics card extra power plugs sensing - can it be reported in linux? Bev <desperate@hausfrau.tv> - 2022-11-09 17:55 +0800
  Re: graphics card extra power plugs sensing - can it be reported in linux? John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@personalprojects.net> - 2022-11-09 11:18 -0500
    Re: graphics card extra power plugs sensing - can it be reported in linux? Bev <indon@foodette.biz> - 2022-11-10 16:11 +0800
  Re: graphics card extra power plugs sensing - can it be reported in linux? "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2022-11-10 12:38 +0300

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