Sure, that laptop's graphics card can't use more than 30 percent of its power limit.
Sure, that laptop's graphics card can't use more than 30 percent of its power limit.
I own an Acer Nitro 5 laptop and everything worked until recently when the graphics card was only getting about 20 watts whether I was using it connected to electricity or not. To figure out why, I looked at some sensor data from GPU-Z. It showed that both power and temperature were restricting things. The problem is that my computer's actual temperature stayed perfectly fine; even while playing games, the graphics card hit around 60 degrees Celsius to 70 degrees Celsius. I checked the advanced tab on the laptop, but there was a weird setting labeled as "current power limit" that suddenly jumped from 100 percent all the way up to over two million percent. Every time I tried to reset it back down, the number would go back to that huge number just by trying to play games. It feels like the GPU can only pull in about 20 watts no matter what my power connection does. Is there any advice on how to fix this?
The issue is not new on the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with an RTX 3050 Ti. It started happening to me back in December 2022 after a specific update from Nvidia that I think caused it.