Quadro P5200 having low wattage on Clevo X7200

[SuperMG3]

Hello.

 

I have a clevo X7200 laptop with a X58 desktop chipset and a Xeon W3680

 

This laptop has two MXM slots, both can deliver 100W with 100W heatsinks as well.

 

Officially this laptop works with the GTX 680M as the best MXM GPU. It does work with GTX Fermi as stock and AMD 5000-6000.

 

Many in the past tried a GTX 780M, 980M but there was nothing on display. But none of them tested the next combo of: putting a Kepler based GTX 670/680/K3000M GPU in the master slot and GTX 780M/980M in the slave slot.

 

So I tried to put a Quadro P5200 in the first slot, not work.

 

But If I do a GTX 680M for display + Quadro P5200 for 3d rendering, the laptop boots. Detects both GPU as Nvidia Graphics Card in the BIOS.

 

So what I did is having a GTX 680 2GB DELL card in the first slot (master) and a Quadro P5200 in the second slot (slave).

 

So yes, you can add a much recent card in the Clevo X7200 only if you have a compatible GPU for display in the master slot.

 

 

I do have one issue. My GPU is performing worse. Like it's averaging 70W in 3dmark and heaven benchmark. In FurMark I did get 84W spike at best.

The GPU has a 110W vBIOS. My temps seems to be good (below 80C on 3d benchmarking), I added thermal paste and thermal pads on VRAMs and VRMs.

 

@triturbowho sold me the card was able to achieve 110W average with an HP 8740W with an Intel Core i7 740QM and PCIE at 2.0 x16.

My laptop does pull PCIE 2.0 x16 speed for both MXM slots.

 

I get 3400 points on 3dmark TimeSpy instead of 5700. There is no thermal throttling, GPU is being used at 100% according to GPU-Z.

 

My AC Adapter is a 300W 20V one and I have a 2024 Nvidia Quadro driver (modded .INF for both GTX 680M and P5200).

 

How can I achieve 100W average when benchmarking/stress testing, am I power limited? Does the vbios has a bad reading for the target power limit? (Temps sensor work, I hear fan speeding up when doing some benchmarks). 

[SuperMG3]

@sliderfra 

@Clamibot

 

Hello, sorry to disturb you. Do you know how to get 100W average for my case?

[ssj92]

This is the same issue I have in Alienware M18xR1 as well. When using M2000M primary and RTX 5000 as secondary I get 60w TDP limit on RTX 5000.

 

but in SG mode I can hit full 90W of card. 
 

still haven’t figured out where the issue is unfortunately 

[SuperMG3]

2 hours ago, ssj92 said:

This is the same issue I have in Alienware M18xR1 as well. When using M2000M primary and RTX 5000 as secondary I get 60w TDP limit on RTX 5000.

 

but in SG mode I can hit full 90W of card. 
 

still haven’t figured out where the issue is unfortunately 

Hello, thanks for commenting.

 

What TDP max is your RTX 5000?

 

Did you try AMD for the first slot?

 

Any PSU upgrades or vBIOS mods to the target TDP?

 

I still haven't try with AMD HD 6XXX and Quadro K3000M as master cards yet...

[ssj92]

5 minutes ago, SuperMG3 said:

Hello, thanks for commenting.

 

What TDP max is your RTX 5000?

 

Did you try AMD for the first slot?

 

Any PSU upgrades or vBIOS mods to the target TDP?

 

I still haven't try with AMD HD 6XXX and Quadro K3000M as master cards yet...

The RTX 5000 runs at full 90W in SG (Optimus) more perfectly fine in the same laptop. Problem is when using dual cards. 

 

Haven't tried AMD card, I don't have any modern ones. 

 

Laptop can power 2x 113W 880M SLI no issues so it's definitely some weird compatibility issue. 

 

I think with 880M I was getting full TDP. When switching to M2000M it is running lower.

 

PSU is not an issue. I have 780W Eurocom PSU and this laptop can use more than 330w unlike the newer ones which were hard capped. 

 

[SuperMG3]

17 hours ago, ssj92 said:

The RTX 5000 runs at full 90W in SG (Optimus) more perfectly fine in the same laptop. Problem is when using dual cards. 

 

Haven't tried AMD card, I don't have any modern ones. 

 

Laptop can power 2x 113W 880M SLI no issues so it's definitely some weird compatibility issue. 

 

I think with 880M I was getting full TDP. When switching to M2000M it is running lower.

 

PSU is not an issue. I have 780W Eurocom PSU and this laptop can use more than 330w unlike the newer ones which were hard capped. 

 

Bruh.

 

I bought dual PSUs for nothing then and Quadro k3000m 75W... Didn't test them yet

 

17 hours ago, ssj92 said:

The RTX 5000 runs at full 90W in SG (Optimus) more perfectly fine in the same laptop. Problem is when using dual cards. 

 

Haven't tried AMD card, I don't have any modern ones. 

 

Laptop can power 2x 113W 880M SLI no issues so it's definitely some weird compatibility issue. 

 

I think with 880M I was getting full TDP. When switching to M2000M it is running lower.

 

PSU is not an issue. I have 780W Eurocom PSU and this laptop can use more than 330w unlike the newer ones which were hard capped. 

 

Why is there a difference between 880M and M2000M? M2000 should allow more performance because it doesn't use 100W

 

Bro those AMD HD 5000/6000 are all defectives... Now one is showing big rectangles lines

 

12 hours ago, SuperMG3 said:

Bro those AMD HD 5000/6000 are all defectives... Now one is showing big rectangles lines

I can't test anything directX because of this dead AMD gpu.

 

But I did manage to get 94W max on GPU-z. With the GTX 680M as master, I got 84W max before.

 

But the performances are the same. When doing 3dmark, I have 70W average... 

 

Tested with a Clevo GTX 485M, Dell GTX 680M, same performance.

 

I can't even get the GPU-Z 3D test to work with 485M + P5200 combo because it crashes log. But can run FurMark and 3dmark. Performances are same.

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[SuperMG3]

Hello. 

 

The Quadro K3000M arrived but... It's not the K3000M. It was the K3100M instead. Not compatible as it's a newer Kepler card... The listing was for a K3000M 2GB. I'm so unlucky. 3rd GPU that's not working in a row!