Ubuntu 22.04 Overheating and Performance Issues After Installing NVIDIA Drivers (Dell Core i9 13th Gen)

[horiamommand]

System Specifications:​

• Laptop Model: Dell (Core i9 13th Gen)
• Pre-installed OS: Windows 11
• Current OS: Ubuntu 22.04 (Fresh Installation)
• GPU: NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX
• Driver Installed: NVIDIA Toolkit

Issue Description:​

I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my Dell Core i9 13th Gen laptop, which originally came with Windows 11 pre-installed. The installation was successful, and Ubuntu initially ran smoothly without any issues—no performance drops, overheating, or unexpected shutdowns.


However, after installing the NVIDIA GPU drivers (NVIDIA Toolkit), I started experiencing severe performance issues, including:

• Significant system slowdowns ( slow response times).
• Excessive overheating (Fans running at high speed constantly).
• Random system shutdowns due to overheating.
• In end teh computer became jumps, but I need to manually power of it.

In windows computer work better even I access GPU!


please help me how can I do?

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Please give us more detail by sharing output of:

sudo inxi -Fzx

 

[f33dm3bits]

It will also be useful to know how you installed the Nvidia drivers and if you are going to install the LTS version of Ubuntu it's in most cases best to install the most recent LTS version which is currently 24.04.

 

[kc1di]

If everything was running smoothly why install a different nvidia driver? Just wondering. Nvidia is notorious for not having good linux drivers. So if it were me and there is no real reason I needed a newer driver I would revert to the one you used in the first place.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Nvidia is notorious for not having good linux drivers.

This is old information and not the case anymore. I've used the RTX 2000 and RTX 3000 series and the experience with Nvidia was good without issues, the only issues then was that the old drivers didn't have good Wayland suppor yet. I've heard since the 570 drivers that has been resolved, so now days as long as you have a supported Nvidia gpu as in a gpu that is still getting driver updates you should be fine. I've also used AMD 6000 series and currently have an AMD 7000 series, both Nvidia and AMD gpu's work fine for the Linux desktop.

 

[kc1di]

This is old information and not the case anymore. I've used the RTX 2000 and RTX 3000 series and the experience with Nvidia was good without issues, the only issues then was that the old drivers didn't have good Wayland suppor yet. I've heard since the 570 drivers that has been resolved, so now days as long as you have a supported Nvidia gpu as in a gpu that is still getting driver updates you should be fine. I've also used AMD 6000 series and currently have an AMD 7000 series, both Nvidia and AMD gpu's work fine for the Linux desktop.

Thanks for the update, I had nothing but trouble a few year back with Nvidia so I've stayed away from them since , maybe time to take another look

 

[f33dm3bits]

Thanks for the update, I had nothing but trouble a few year back with Nvidia so I've stayed away from them since , maybe time to take another look

You're not the only one since a lot of people seem to be saying this whenever Nvidia comes up in a topic whether on a forum or reddit so most people are just repeating what they heard, but to be fair a bad reputation is not easily cured.

 

[horiamommand]

If everything was running smoothly why install a different nvidia driver? Just wondering. Nvidia is notorious for not having good linux drivers. So if it were me and there is no real reason I needed a newer driver I would revert to the one you used in the first place.

No, when I installed Ubuntu, I didn't install any drivers. However, I later installed drivers to access the GPU. My goal was that after installing a fresh copy of Ubuntu, my computer would function normally. But after installing the GPU drivers, even without putting too much load on the GPU, the target software would run, while other GPU-dependent tasks would automatically stop working. In some cases, even the simplest tasks couldn't be performed, and the computer would shut down.