Power consumption much higher after switching to Ubuntu 24.04
Bug #2064847 reported by
pinus
This bug affects 1 person
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Bug Description
I have desktop pc, AMD platform, also AMD graphics card. It was running Ubuntu 20.04. Because I switched the graphics card I plugged my system on a power meter. After the switch, the installation consumed ~100W.
Some weeks later I installed Ubuntu 24.04. The bad experience is a different story. I managed to get it running. Now the System consumes 190W. No hardware changes!
CPU load shows ~0, LAMP shows ~7W for the graphics card. All disks spin down after 15 minutes. Nothing could explain 90W. Even the CPU is limited in the BIOS to 65W.
Is it possible that the new Ubuntu overwrites the power limit of the CPU?
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Found a nice tool showing that it is running at much to high clock speed for doing nothing. With energy savings activated in the GNOME settings.
cpupower frequency-info
The governor "schedutil" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
analyzing CPU 2:
driver: acpi-cpufreq
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 2
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 2
maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported.
hardware limits: 2.20 GHz - 4.95 GHz
available frequency steps: 3.70 GHz, 2.80 GHz, 2.20 GHz
available cpufreq governors: conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance schedutil
current policy: frequency should be within 2.20 GHz and 3.70 GHz.
current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
current CPU frequency: 4.06 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
boost state support:
Supported: yes
Active: no