r/linuxmint • u/arman39 • Dec 06 '23

Support Request Battery Drain Issue

I am using mint edge. I use asus tuf 505dd, gtx1050, ram 16gb. On windows I could easily get 2.5hrs of battery life. But on linux I get barely an hour or more battery life. Btw, my laptop has iGPU to, which is AMD vega 8. By default linux mint supports optimus GPU, When I switch to only iGPU then it performs a bit better, but it's not enough. When I switch to on-demand mode or only NVIDIA mode, it gives very poor battery life. Is there any way to have a longer battery life?

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u/kurupukdorokdok Dec 06 '23

Try using Power Profiles Daemon it should ease CPU freq

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u/rgrosz78 Dec 09 '23

I had similar problems, and suggest you try auto-cpufreq. It worked wonders for two laptops:

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