I've got the same issue with a GTX 1080 on a desktop (lenovo ideacentre). 
Upgraded over time from 16.04 (as hibernate didn't work to)->17.04.->17.10 and 
last week to 18.04.
I tried installing nvidia-390 and nvidia-396 with all three methods (bionic 
package, ppa package, nvidia run script). I even tried to install the older 
nvidia-387 with nvidia-run script after switching nouveau driver off. Didn't 
work as some kernel headers don't seem to fit, so installation script aborted. 
I also tried to upgrade the kernel from 4.15.0-22.24 to 4.15.18, 4.16.13 and 
newest 4.17 release with ukuu. With newer kernels, I did not even got a gui 
screen (even with and without nvidia-drivers). I also tried to switch to 
wayland, but couldn't get it working, allthough I switched to lightdm and seen 
the login screen with the option (but didn't logged me in successfull).

At some point it gets absurd, if I'd handle kernel versions and co, I
could use arch linux or w/e and not use ubuntu. Atm, I only can either
reinstall 17.10 (that runs out of support soon), what's pretty meh, or
use my desktop as pure server without a gui where I could at least run a
jupyter notebook server and use it for machine learning as intended. But
of course, I didn't bought it as server system intentionally. Has
anybody a clue how likely the bug keeps in 18.04 (will it be fixed when
17.10 is out of support).

To be honest, that's first time I serious think about switching
distributions :-o Since I've left Windows I never rebooted my computer
so often. Here, the most nasty about the bug is that it is so silent
after release-upgrading. I only discovered after wondering what makes
machine learning slower as usual. So, I assume there will be much more
new 18.04 users who have the same problem, but have not yet realized
something is wrong as not everybody runs tensorflow-gpu/pytorch or games
all the time.

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