Manual mode - when dGPU enters in a deep slumber state (D3) the stock silent profile is auto-applied

[xaviergonz]

Asus Strix G615LW-S5003 (2025 rtx 5080)

Latest drivers, latest BIOS, latest everything

It happens both with Armoury Crate and G-Helper, so my guess it is a BIOS/ACPI issue.

Note: Do all this while connected to power. Standard mode. Optimus mode (so no auto switch to dGPU screen)

1. Set a manual profile with high gpu usage (e.g. 80w or more) - (won't happen with silent, performance, turbo)

2. Wait until dGPU goes into a deep slumber state (e.g. check until HWInfo reports the dGPU power is down to 0w)

3. Run a game (any) and show the nvidia overlay (or check HWInfo dGPU power)

4. The nvidia overlay will show it is running 65w, as if it were in a silent profile (although it doesn't show)

5. While in the game change cycle the profile to anything else (e.g. turbo), the dGPU usage will get back to a normal level until the dGPU sleeps again (while manual mode is set)

Detailed info on how I found it here: https://github.com/seerge/g-helper/issues/4183

[xaviergonz]

More info:

It happens with NVIDIA drivers 576.52 / 576.66.

With 576.28 and 576.02 the dGPU never gets to 0w (deep sleep) so I can't reproduce it there (although that isn't cool because battery life gets severely hit).

With 572.83 everything works correctly, this is, even after entering 0w (deep sleep) mode the TDP limit does not get changed.

[Anbby_ROG]

Thank you for contacting us. Since the NVIDIA driver versions 576.52 / 576.66 have not yet been verified by ASUS and may have compatibility issues, we recommend that you use the ASUS-verified graphics driver versions. Thank you for your understanding.

[xaviergonz]

Thank you for your answer.

It was reported to the NVIDIA driver developers here as well: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/notifications/comment/395686/

Let's hope it gets fixed from that side.

[xaviergonz]

Happens with the ROG nvidia drivers just released yesterday as well (which happens to be 576.65)