[Aurornis]

Server cards are not optimized for idle power usage. They’re expected to be fully utilized.

For server gear it’s more common to have less dynamic power and voltage switching because it produces more predictable performance and latency.

[cmovq]

For GeForce cards you can get similar behavior by setting “Prefer maximum performance” which disables some of the low power states.

[UltraSane]

CPU sleep states are normally disabled on servers because CPU demand can increase faster than the CPU speed can increase. It is much better to have a $20,000 CPU running at max MHz at all times.