Here's the bash commands that enabled me to change my fan speed from the cli, when ssh tunneled into my desktop. None of the above answers worked for me using the nvidia-settings GUI. I found I can get 95%+ performance for ~75% energy cost by setting the power level to 100 in the above command in my mining rig, but I imagine other power conscious users would appreciate this too. In my limited experience, setting it too high had no effect. If you set this too low, you will get an error. Where the 0 is my GPU number, and the 90 is the maximum power in watts. =END OF ANSWER=Īnd as an extra tidbit not asked for in this question, you can also adjust the power output of your Nvidia GPU with: sudo nvidia-smi -i 0 -pl 90 nvidia-settings -a '/GPUFanControlState=1' -a '/GPUTargetFanSpeed=55'įor a much more detailed overview of this feature including multiple GPU fans, check out this thorough documentation Nvidia Overclocking and Coolingįor a somewhat rambling and wayward thread which lead me to the above link, check out Set Fanspeed in Linux from Terminal Importantly I note that my 1070 Ti is GPU 0. Gives information about the GPU(s) and their numbers. To tell nvidia-xconfig to allow the fan to be controlled in the command line. To control Nvidia GPU fan speed via Terminal on Linux Mint 20 with a 1070 Ti: sudo nvidia-xconfig -cool-bits=4

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