(In reply to tempel.julian from comment #4)
> However, I am still not able to raise the maximum allowed power consumption
> of the GPU.
> It's clear that "/sys/class/drm/card0/device/hwmon/hwmon0/power1_cap" sets
> the actual power limit and thus I need to raise it. But the problem is:
> - I can't set it higher than power1_cap_max, only values below work.
> - power1_cap_max equals to power1_cap, so raising power consumption is
> actually completely forbidden
> - Despite of being root, I don't have write access to power1_cap_max, unlike
> to power1_cap

The max supported power cap is defined by the OEM in a vbios table and we limit
the max to that value.  power1_cap_min and max are RO so you can't change them.
 They define the range of available values.