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Your experience with auto-cpufreq? (lemdro.id)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by mfat@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I watched a video by Chris Titus in which he encouraged everyone to install auto-cpufreq immediately since it does wonders for battery life on laptops.
He said it was superior to TLP and powertop auto-optimizations. Has anyone actually used this for an extended period of time? Does it really work as advertised?

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These are all wildly different tools you've mentioned. I'd read up a bit more and understand what you need for your system. If you have an AMD CPU, the amd-pstate driver in kernel 6.6+ is supposed to give better power management capabilities than any other tool. This is a rapidly changing area of concern though, so that opinion may be changing month to month as TLP makes changes to take AMD kernel upstream changes in to consideration.

[–] mfat@lemdro.id 1 points 7 months ago

My laptop has Intel Core i7-1165G7.