Maybe NVIDIA could take the next step and either port GPU Tweak II to Linux, or contribute to GWE? NVIDIA released open-source Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022.
At least that’s a possibility given the project is open source. If you want to contribute to open source software and have a good knowledge of Python 3, take a look at the source code! If the developer does decide to step away, we’d love to see the project continue. The maintainer of GWE has stated that he may no longer be able to support this utility in the future. It’s a worthy addition to our Essential System Utilities series. While GWE only provides some of the tweaking possibilities that MSI Afterburner or GPU Tweak II offer, there’s enough functionality here for most users. GWE is an essential utility for Linux NVIDIA graphics card users given that tools such as MSI Afterburner and GPU Tweak II are Windows-only. If you come from a Windows background you’ll know there are a wide range of utilities that let you fully control NVIDIA cards.
That’s when GWE steps in as it lets you define your own custom fan curve profiles. And many other NVIDIA cards also lack this functionality. But not all 3060 Ti’s provide this stop mode. The ASUS card we’re using provides a stop mode which halts both fans when the GPU temperature falls to 50 degrees C. With our Asus GeForce RTX 3060 Ti OC Edition the minimum power draw is 100W. This is helpful if you want to squeeze out more performance or even reduce your energy consumption. What makes GWE so useful is that it gives you control of the graphics card. The utility provides some general statistics including model name, driver version, gpu/memory/power usage, temperature and fan(s) speed. Overclocking is controlled via the Coolbits option in the Device section of Xorg. Note that overclocking can permanently damage your hardware if the system doesn’t have sufficient cooling. We also need to enable the overclocking and fan control functionality as they are not enabled by GWE itself. The software is then added to Activities. $ flatpak update # this command wasn’t necessary on our Ubuntu 22.04 system. We can now install the software with the commands: $ flatpak -user remote-add -if-not-exists flathub Next, add the Flathub remote repository to our flatpak repository configuration. On our fresh Ubuntu, we first need to install Flatpak. Installation was plain-sailing all the way. The developer recommends installing the utility from Flathub. We tested the software on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 22.04.
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