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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Switch To More Aggressive Power Heuristics By Default (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It specifically says the change only applies to dedicated GPUs, not integrated ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Ah right, thank you, I missed that somehow

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Some laptops have dedicated GPUs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Okay, but the commenter said "my laptop with jts integrated GPU". Obviously, laptops with a dedicated AMD GPU would be affected by this change.