Interesting tool there, I installed and ran. The results are interesting. Note during the run I switched from balanced to powersave to performance (in the KDE battery icon) and I couldn’t tell a difference. My package watt never got over 5, and my fans never audibly kicked on (at least not loud) and I let it run 2:44… Weird. I’m happy with the way it’s running now so I’m not going to fiddle too much, but I am curious to say the least. Perhaps there’s some “unlocked potential” left in this thing because if it’s running at 5-6 watts peak I am incredibly surprised because it is usable even if doggy at times. It appears, at least from turbostat, that there is zero effect on changing my battery profile because I changed it during the run and saw no difference in reported Mhz, temp or watts. I also ran it a second time with the machine unplugged and did the same switch on energy settings to see if maybe there was a difference but saw the same results. It was cool in my house today hence the starting temps were cooler but never got up to 45-deg C.
# turbostat --Summary --quiet --show Busy%,Avg_MHz,PkgTmp,PkgWatt --interval 5
Avg_MHz Busy% PkgTmp PkgWatt
25 3.53 39 3.57
70 8.61 39 3.61
172 14.72 39 4.56
182 19.95 40 4.46
170 16.78 40 5.03
186 18.25 40 4.83
29 3.46 39 3.37
639 60.45 42 6.07
1357 99.31 43 9.18
1388 99.19 44 9.22
1104 99.27 41 7.81
450 99.60 42 5.45
524 99.61 42 5.58
563 99.64 42 5.79
570 99.63 42 5.80
525 99.64 41 5.91
547 99.51 42 5.92
588 99.66 42 5.91
567 99.65 42 5.89
597 99.65 43 5.86
608 99.68 43 5.97
560 99.60 43 5.97
574 99.34 43 6.03
489 99.66 43 5.89
551 99.63 43 5.97
498 99.55 43 5.92
519 99.53 43 5.96
509 99.54 43 5.90
517 99.56 43 5.88
564 99.64 43 5.83
514 99.55 43 5.97
494 99.51 43 5.99
521 99.58 44 5.99
527 99.55 44 5.95
526 99.57 44 5.91
521 99.56 44 6.01
498 99.55 43 5.93
531 99.52 44 5.86
510 99.52 44 6.03
505 99.05 44 5.95
108 9.69 44 4.31
83 3.17 43 4.46
^C59 2.08 43 4.07