NVIDIA Afterburner on Linux - the only thing stopping me

natsukirei · May 28, 2019

Hey All,

So i love linux, i play with it daily in VM, i love and adore openbox and linux runs all my favourite games in the total war series and doom, its really all i play, but the only thing stopping me from using linux is afterburner because i can undervolt and control temps, fan speeds etc of my GPU, i like control over my hardware.

I have an MSi Gaming X 1660 Ti nvidia card, and i have managed a very stable undervolt of .925 with the max overclock and my temps never go above 53 in winter

Is their a way to do this in linux, mainly ubuntu, if their was some sort of graphical tool to control all this, i would be balls to the wall on linux

Sauron · May 28, 2019

nvidiux has some of afterburner's features in a similar package but undervolting isn't supported - I believe this is a driver problem, not a limitation specific to the tool. Nvidia doesn't have a good track record with their Linux drivers. You could try flashing a custom bios to the card, though of course that has a few risks.

natsukirei · May 28, 2019

11 minutes ago, Sauron said:

nvidiux has some of afterburner's features in a similar package but undervolting isn't supported - I believe this is a driver problem, not a limitation specific to the tool. Nvidia doesn't have a good track record with their Linux drivers. You could try flashing a custom bios to the card, though of course that has a few risks.

Thanks for the info, not a bad tool at least i can control clock speeds which would by default use less voltage i guess, its nice a tool like that is even out there

Chunchunmaru_ · May 28, 2019

36 minutes ago, natsukirei said:

Thanks for the info, not a bad tool at least i can control clock speeds which would by default use less voltage i guess, its nice a tool like that is even out there

Another similar program is GreenWithEnvy