Power consumption much higher after switching to Ubuntu 24.04

Bug #2064847 reported by pinus
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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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pinus (pinus) wrote :

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
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.
                  The governor "schedutil" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  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

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pinus (pinus) wrote :

I figured out that the USB boot stick didn't have the problem. I also figured out that the power consumption on the login screen is below 100W.
If I login to Ubuntu the power consumption raises about 50W, no matter of X or Wayland. I created a new user without my settings and plugins but still ~50W raise. I installed KDE Plasman, which doesn't have this problem, power consumption stays at ~100W.

Which package is responsible for the Ubuntu desktop?

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