A change queued up last week by AMDGPU driver maintainer Alex Deucher will now default to the fullscreen 3D workload profile for discrete GPUs. AMD APUs with integrated graphics will continue to use the default “bootup” power profile but discrete graphics cards will be running in the “fullscreen 3D” power profile by default.
I don’t recall how to check my currently active power profile
I believe it’s cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/pp_power_profile_mode.
There’s also the power_dpm_force_performance_level.
I wonder how much this will affect the power usage during boot on my laptop with its integrated AMDGPU. Granted, boot time is fairly short so hopefully this won’t really matter.
It specifically says the change only applies to dedicated GPUs, not integrated ones.
Cool. I hope the next LTS will include this.
No distro. I mean the next LTS version of the kernel. On Gentoo I can choose my kernel version, but it general I like to be on the stable LTS. But recently I needed to choose a more recent version for better compatibility of the amdgpu driver for the one game I am playing.
Hype!
