Default power profile = 'Power Save'? Why?!

General
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I just repasted CPU + GPU and discovered very bad geekbench results despite excellent thermals. Turns out, I’ve been running ‘Power Save’ profile, so the CPU was never boosting.

I did not knowingly change this, so I presume Cachy defaults to ‘Power Save’ profile? WTF?!

So, I went from 1720 single / 9530 multicore to 2270 / 11,100.

You might want to check your Power Management settings!

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Sure, that’s what one does immediately after a fresh install.

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Sure, for those born tediously omniscient. For the rest of us, it’s very easy to miss.

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Are you on a laptop?

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Yeah if on a laptop, it did what it is supposed to do.

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IIRC, it defaulted to Balanced on my desktop install.

It really should default to Performance regardless of hardware.

If a user wants to save power, that’s a deliberate choice, and so it will occur to them to go out of their way and figure out how to do that. But, generally, you don’t (and shouldn’t need to) expect an OS to cripple your hardware out of the box, unless you find the magic button to get permission to use the full capability of your machine.

Many of us may have learned to watch out for that, from previous such experiences, but that doesn’t make it a sensible default. We don’t have to live this way.

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I have responded to many a thread of ‘why is everything slow’ or ‘why stuck on low clocks’ or similar .. to find everything is set to powersave.

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Nope, not laptop - desktop:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (16) @ 4.55 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT [Discrete]
Memory: 5.15 GiB / 15.52 GiB (33%)

Settings > Power Management was set to Leave unchanged and that was giving me max clocks of 3600. I switched to Balanced and now I get full boost to 4550. Huge difference.

I just finished undervolting and now my single core geekbench seems to be the highest in their db.

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Although, ‘Balanced’ is maybe the best choice for all. But, if ‘Power Save’ is default, it is crippling everyone’s CPU.

Funny thing is, after I switched from Winbloat that even with a ‘crippled’ CPU the performance was much snappier . :smile: … Microslop lol.