High Idle Power Consumption on nVidia GPU

One of the things to consider when building a home server is idle consumption of a graphics card. I have nVidia RTX 2700 Super and I hoped the idle would be 3-4W like everybody is writing on the internet, but in fact it is 22W. Including power supply inefficiency it is around 28-30W. It kind of sucks, but it is still better than spend lot of time researching NAS world. I tried and I also bought couple of small SBC computers, but it sucked. Much easier to have old regular mini-ITX system and pay for electricity assuming you need a GPU to do stuff.

tigeru@tiger:~$ nvidia-smi 
Sun Oct  5 21:51:02 2025       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.95.05              Driver Version: 580.95.05      CUDA Version: 13.0     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 ...    On  |   00000000:0A:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%   44C    P8             22W /  215W |       1MiB /   8192MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+