{"id":48632,"date":"2025-04-11T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T07:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48632"},"modified":"2025-04-11T07:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T07:58:20","slug":"overclock-gpu-ubuntu-lact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/overclock-gpu-ubuntu-lact\/","title":{"rendered":"Overclock \/ Downclock GPU &#038; Limit Power in Ubuntu via LACT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-48633\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-icon-700x700.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to give more control of your graphics card in Ubuntu &amp; other Linux? Here&#8217;s a graphical to do the job.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s LACT, a free open-source GTK4 application written in Rust. With it, you may monitor and control <b>NVIDIA<\/b>, <b>Intel<\/b>, and <b>AMD<\/b> GPUs with following options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>View detailed GPU information.<\/li>\n<li>Control GPU fan speed.<\/li>\n<li>Overclock \/ Downclock GPU, VRam speed.<\/li>\n<li>Limit power usage.<\/li>\n<li>Power states configuration (AMD only)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48634\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-info.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48634\" class=\"size-large wp-image-48634\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-info-700x665.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-info-700x665.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-info-300x285.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-info-768x729.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-info.webp 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LACT GPU info tab<\/p><\/div>\n<p>LACT so far supports AMD RX 400-500, Vega, RX 5000\/6000\/9000 series, NVIDIA 900 series and newer, and Intel GPUs with limitations. Though, some features require most recent Kernel, and Intel fan control is not supported so far by the driver.<\/p>\n<p>And, some laptops lack fan monitoring and control, as the fan is not physically connected through the GPU. For more about hardware support, see <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ilya-zlobintsev\/LACT\/wiki\/Hardware-Support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this page<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-overclock.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48635\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-overclock-638x700.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-overclock-638x700.webp 638w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-overclock-274x300.webp 274w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-overclock-768x842.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-overclock.webp 963w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The app as well provides a chart of historical data about the GPU\/VRAM clock speed, temperature, and power usage. And, it supports profiles to automatically switch settings, when a specific process (e.g., game) or game mode is active.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-chartandprofile.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48636\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-chartandprofile-700x444.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-chartandprofile-700x444.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-chartandprofile-300x190.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-chartandprofile-768x487.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-chartandprofile.webp 1287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Install LACT<\/h3>\n<p>LACT offers pre-build packages for Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and their based systems, which are available to download at the Github releases page:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ilya-zlobintsev\/LACT\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download LACT (under Assets)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Ubuntu, select download &#8220;<i>ubuntu-2204.deb<\/i>&#8221; or &#8220;<i>ubuntu-24.04.deb<\/i>&#8221; depends on your system edition, then install by either click opening with AppCenter (or Software Install) to install, or running command below in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install drag-and-drop-deb-file-here<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-lactdeb.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48637\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-lactdeb-700x369.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-lactdeb-700x369.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-lactdeb-300x158.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-lactdeb-768x405.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/install-lactdeb.webp 1037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After installed the package, search for and launch it from either GNOME overview or start menu depends on your desktop environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/launch-lact.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48638\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/launch-lact.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/launch-lact.webp 523w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/launch-lact-300x164.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, at the first launch it may ask to install &amp; start the daemon service which is useful to edit GPU settings and resume from sleep.<\/p>\n<p>To manually start the service, use command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo systemctl enable --now lactd.service<\/pre>\n<p>Then you may run <code>systemctl status lactd.service<\/code> to check its status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-systemdservice.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-systemdservice-700x438.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"382\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-systemdservice-700x438.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-systemdservice-300x188.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-systemdservice-768x480.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lact-systemdservice.webp 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall LACT<\/h3>\n<p>To uninstall the LACT app that was installed as <code>.deb<\/code> package, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove --autoremove lact<\/pre>\n<p>Then, stop and disable the systemd service by running command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo systemctl disable --now lactd<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to give more control of your graphics card in Ubuntu &amp; other Linux? 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