controlling CPU boost
Is there a way to manage CPU clock speeds in bazzite similar to windows power management?
My CPU is boosting up to 4-5ghz in games and reaching 90°c faster than my fans can ramp up. This is on both 20w and 25w power settings. In windows I would have a similar problem when the system power management was set to performance mode while balanced and efficiency offered regular 2-4ghz clock speeds and normal temps. It seems bazzite is running like windows performance mode which is causing crazy temps and stealing all the wattage from the iGPU…
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AMD?
if AMD, there's a few things you can try:
- change CPU power governor and epp to power/powersave
- change from amd_pstate to acpi_cpufreq for to unlock CPU boost controls, and turn off CPU boost
- wait til kernel 6.11 is released, it should support CPU boost controls on amd_pstate
Legion Go. How can I change my power governance settings? That’s exactly what I need to do as I don’t want to fully disable CPU boost, just want to stop sending all of the power budget to the CPU.
SimpleDeckyTDP has settings for power governor and epp
or alternatively, you can manually setup a bash script + systemd script of some sort that changes the governor and epp
you can also set a TDP + force a min GPU clock, that'll forcibly throttle CPU since resources will need to get allocated to the GPU
if you prefer an alternative to TDP control, you can still leave SDTDP installed and just disable the TDP and GPU controls
Great advice idk why I didn’t think of that. Is there a way I can I change the CPU governance without simpledeckyTDP? I prefer HDDs solution to TDP management
install simpledeckyTDP, disable TDP controls in the plugin
and just use the power governor controls there
there's a toggle in the plugin
ahh, but hhd forces it to be uninstalled
I tried that earlier when attempting to fix this and HDD won’t manage my TDP while SimpledeckyTDP is installed
Exactly
@antheas any way to not have hhd forcible disable SDTDP?
SDTDP has an option to disable tdp and gpu controls
it doesnt force disable it
you can't have them both installed
ah yea, but now hhd has gpu controls
sorry that's what i meant
but no power governor and epp controls
thats by design unfortunately
@HoodieWoody sounds like it's not possible currently then
the reason is what Hoodie experienced
you'll instead need to manually change the governor and epp