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  • Joe24
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2021
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    2070 Super with crazy power consumption numbers

    Have a Gigabyte 2070 Super with some bonkers power draw readings. Card runs fine, other than some GPU throttling because of the power numbers. But GPU power always reads too high, more than the power reading for the entire card. And VRAM power always reads way too low, along with PCIe and 6-pin power readings. The 8-pin reading seems plausible.

    Typical readout while running 720p Furmark, 8x AA:

    GPU clock: 1590 MHz
    Mem clock: 1750 MHz
    GPU temp: 58.8 °C
    Hot spot: 71.8 °C
    Fan speed: 33% / 1000 rpm
    Mem used: 454 MB
    GPU load: 97%
    Mem controller load: 80%
    Video engine load: 0%
    Bus interface load: 1%
    Board power draw: 143W
    GPU chip power draw: 220W
    MVDDC power draw: 3.1W
    MVDDQ power draw: 5.3W
    PCIe slot power: 15.7W
    PCIe slot voltage: 12.2V
    6-pin power: 16.9W
    6-pin voltage: 12.1V
    8-pin power: 115.3W
    8-pin voltage: 12.1V
    USB-C power draw: 3.8W (there is no USB-C on this card)
    Power consumption: 67.2% TDP
    PerfCap reason: Pwr
    GPU voltage: 0.79V

    Not too worried about the USB-C power, Turing cards often have spurious USB-C readings.

    Have changed the 45491 chip, no difference. Reading the shunt resistors manually, it appears that the 45491 is interpreting the data correctly.

    Measured the 3x 12V input shunt resistors (for PCIe, 6-pin, and 8-pin), and all measure 0.005 ohms like they should be.

    Have done some testing on the current sense lines of the GPU's uP9512P, and all 7 phases look uniform. All phases are firing properly (obviously, or the card wouldn't work under load).

    So I'm running out of ideas and commonalities.

    How are the power consumptions of the GPU and VRAM measured on these cards? Is this calculated by the respective uP9512P controllers, or is it measured by a separate set of shunt resistors that I'm missing? It would be highly improbable for both 9512s to go bad at the same time.
    Last edited by Joe24; 02-03-2023, 02:20 AM.
  • Answer selected by Joe24 at 01-13-2025, 06:56 PM.
    Joe24
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2021
    • 53
    • Eh?

    Re: 2070 Super with crazy power consumption numbers

    Turned out to be a firmware issue. Evidently this is an early version of the board v1.0C, and it requires an obscure firmware version to make it work which is not one of the "official" firmware versions. This resulted in the GPU mis-parsing the string of voltage/power consumption measurements from the 45491. All good now.

    P.S., With the proper firmware, the bottom DP jack came to life too. It was dead but I hadn't got around to looking at it yet.
    Last edited by Joe24; 02-15-2023, 11:45 PM.

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    • ktmmotocross
      Boardkiller
      • Feb 2014
      • 3559
      • slovakia

      #2
      Re: 2070 Super with crazy power consumption numbers

      220W is ok reading for this card with furmark

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      • Joe24
        Senior Member
        • Jun 2021
        • 53
        • Eh?

        #3
        Re: 2070 Super with crazy power consumption numbers

        Originally posted by ktmmotocross
        220W is ok reading for this card with furmark
        GPU power reading is exceeding board power reading. And memory should not be 3W. Common sense fail.

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        • Joe24
          Senior Member
          • Jun 2021
          • 53
          • Eh?

          #4
          Re: 2070 Super with crazy power consumption numbers

          Turned out to be a firmware issue. Evidently this is an early version of the board v1.0C, and it requires an obscure firmware version to make it work which is not one of the "official" firmware versions. This resulted in the GPU mis-parsing the string of voltage/power consumption measurements from the 45491. All good now.

          P.S., With the proper firmware, the bottom DP jack came to life too. It was dead but I hadn't got around to looking at it yet.
          Last edited by Joe24; 02-15-2023, 11:45 PM.

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          • minhvjjp
            New Member
            • May 2025
            • 1
            • Vietnam

            #5
            it seems that i'm facing the same problem as yours, perhaps worse. my laptop GPU clock is super low and seems like a throtling problem. the MVDDC draw is higher than expected(220W) and the GPU chip power draw is 0W. this happened on my 3050ti laptop, can you please specify your way of overcoming thi problem by fixing firmwares? i have tried almost any possible way but none worked.

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            • ktmmotocross
              Boardkiller
              • Feb 2014
              • 3559
              • slovakia

              #6
              at least. 220w is absolutellly normal on this card

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              • Joe24
                Senior Member
                • Jun 2021
                • 53
                • Eh?

                #7
                Originally posted by ktmmotocross
                at least. 220w is absolutellly normal on this card
                GPU power reading was exceeding board power reading. And memory should not be 3W. Common sense fail. We've already covered this, read the thread.

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