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jauntywundrkind ◴[] No.40712804[source]
It was sad seeing AMDGPU limit undervolting semi-recently. A couple complaints or bits of damage ruined a practice that a lot of people were using just fine to save significsnt wattage, https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Lower-Power-Limit
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nottorp ◴[] No.40714814[source]
Not just AMD. I recently bought a nvidia 4060 card and i can't set the power limit lower than something like 75-90 W, at least in Linux.

Of course, it's possible that the lower limit has always been there for nvidia, but I just didn't know because I went without a dedicated video card for like 4 years.

For AMD aren't the drivers (partially) open source? Can't the change be reverted?

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1. forbiddenlake ◴[] No.40718373[source]
Yes, for example, the alternative kernel, Zen, did so.

https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel/issues/344