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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by supermair@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

AMD has been on a roll over the past year making significant strides in power management across the Linux stack.

Most of this work is centered around support for p-state.

To take advantage you should run a newer Linux kernel. Here are some of the improvements from each recent release:

Use power-profiles-daemon 0.20+ which sets the appropriate p-state driver based on the selected battery profile.

Upcoming changes:

Kudos to AMD principal engineer Mario Limonciello for driving these changes across the board!

This is one advantage of increased competition (e.g. from the Apple M series); the entire ecosystem is pushed forward.

I am personally benefiting immensely from these improvements on my new Thinkpad t14s with AMD 7840U (battery life going from 4-5 hours to easily 10+ hours).

Finally we don't have to settle anymore for underwhelming battery life on Linux laptops :)

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[-] poinck@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

Would a desktop CPU (Zen3) also benefit from these improvements?

[-] supermair@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, Zen 2 and above support p-states! You might need to update your bios and enable CPPC if p-state is not showing up.

You can confirm by running $ powerprofilesctl and seeing if CpuDriver is amd_pstate.

[-] poinck@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Thx, I will try that. When configuring my kernel I saw it and left it in the default config "active" (I was upgrading to the latest LTS kernel today). I did not check how I can interact with it as a user, yet.

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