agent71 wrote:I don't have 2 x RTX 2060 but am running 1 x RTX2060 and 1 x P106.
Temps are high but "fine" and in a case that isn't exactly great with airflow - Corsair Carbide 275R. It is pretty quiet though as replaced all fans with Noctua and placed CPU radiator at top of case to allow maxmium, unrestricted airflow in via front panel. It's still not really enough but ok.
You can see that the RTX peaks at 81C running at 150W and the P106 at 59C which is bearly an increase from idle temp...
I was power limiting both via nvidia-smi but it made very little difference to temps on the P106, +/- 3 degrees, so I let that run at whatever power it needs.
RTX at 125W sees temps peak around 75C.
As the 2060 runs hot and the PC sits in the home office I pause it via cron during working hours and fire up at 9PM although still limit to 150W. So not exactly a solution to improving cooling but one that means I don't care about the noise the fans make as I'm not in the room.
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the P106 uses a lower TDP than the RTX GPU.
Limiting the P106 to 125W, is setting it 5 Watt higher than it's stock rated '120W' TDP.
If I'm not mistaken, the P106 can be lowered all the way to ~75W; but it'll suffer in performance at those power levels.
I believe somewhere around 80-85W is the optimal setting for that GPU, but you'll have to play around with it, looking at GPU frequencies while power capping to different settings, to see if you can sacrifice 10% of GPU frequency (usually for ~25% of lower power settings).
10% of GPU frequency drop, doesn't always relate to 10% lower PPD. It more or less equals like 5% of PPD loss.
So instead of a 333k PPD, you'll get like 315-320k PPD.
Not a biggie, if you look at the power saved.