Stressing with 2x RTX 5080 on Ubuntu 24.04.3

Overview

For thermal and power evaluation purposes.

Installation

• To enable onboard graphics, SM768, and NVIDIA graphics display, set the BIOS display option to Auto. (Screenshot TBD)

• Blacklist nouveau, the open-source NVIDIA GPU driver.

# Before blacklisting, the default open-source NVIDIA GPU driver, nouveau, is active.
lsmod | grep nouveau
### nouveau              3014656  0
### mxm_wmi                12288  1 nouveau
### drm_gpuvm              45056  1 nouveau
### gpu_sched              61440  1 nouveau
### drm_ttm_helper         16384  1 nouveau
### ttm                   118784  2 drm_ttm_helper,nouveau
### drm_exec               12288  2 drm_gpuvm,nouveau
### drm_display_helper    278528  1 nouveau
### video                  77824  1 nouveau
### i2c_algo_bit           16384  2 igb,nouveau
### wmi                    28672  4 video,wmi_bmof,mxm_wmi,nouveau


# Edit the blacklist file and add one line
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
# Add the following line
blacklist nouveau


# After reboot, the nouveau will be blacklsited
sudo reboot

lsmod | grep nouveau 
### There should be no result

• Install the onboard graphics, SM768 driver, and NVIDIA GPU driver.

sudo apt-get update

# SM768 Driver 
sudo apt-get install -y smifb2-dkms

# NVIDIA GPU Driver
sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-driver-580-open

# Update initramfs due to new driver installed 
sudo update-initramfs -u
### update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.14.0-27-generic

sudo reboot

• Enable manual control of the NVIDIA GPU fan

sudo gedit /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
# allowed_users=console
allowed_users=anybody
needs_root_rights=yes

# Log out and log in again to apply the configuration

• Install CUDA for Ubuntu 24.04

sudo apt update
sudo apt install wget gnupg software-properties-common -y
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/x86_64/cuda-ubuntu2404.pin
sudo mv cuda-ubuntu2404.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
sudo apt-key adv --fetch-keys https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/x86_64/3bf863cc.pub
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/x86_64/ /"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y cuda

sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit
sudo reboot

nvcc --version

• Install gpu-burn

# Install gpu-burn
sudo apt-get install -y git

cd ~/Desktop
git clone https://github.com/wilicc/gpu-burn.git
cd gpu-burn
make

Run

# Terminal #1
cd ~/Desktop/gpu-burn
### run 1,000,000 sec
./gpu_burn 1000000



# Terminal #2
watch -n 1 nvidia-smi



# Terminal #3
### Open nvidia-settings to set 100% fan speed at Thermal Settings 

nvidia-settings

### GPU 0
### [v] Enable GPU Fan Settings
### Fan Speed: 100

### GPU 1
### [v] Enable GPU Fan Settings
### Fan Speed: 100