High idle power usage with Fedora 40, battery lasts four hours

[jumpylion]

Have used Ubuntu/W11, and idle power usage was much lower. Fans also running all the time, and underside is too hot to use comfortably on lap. This is strange because, iirc, the fans were almost never on with Ubuntu/W11.

Install process was download iso from Fedora website and install normally. I am on BIOS 3.05, have PPD installed, and my power profile in desktop GUI is power saver. Above screenshot is idle with single terminal window open.

I am not sure what I have done here? I remember this kind of performance when I initially installed Ubuntu, before I installed (I think) firmware? But Fedora is supposed to run fine out of box?

Any help appreciated. I am not sure what settings I need to check to debug further.

EDIT: using ~16W with a single YouTube window.

[Fish]

Default drivers are bad on Fedora because of licensing; try this :
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox_Hardware_acceleration

OpenH264

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/14gokb6/what_is_the_ultimate_properly_way_to_install/

I’m using around 11W on Youtube on Fedora

[jumpylion]

I am using Chromium, which comes with codecs? And doing nothing it still uses 12W. I remember it idling near 6-7w in Ubuntu. Would this still cause issue at idle?

Adding PPD info. Kernel is 6.9.10. CPU is 7640u. Think I had this issue in Ubuntu but was solved by OEM D kernel update?

[inffy]

Codecs need to be installed separately from rpmfusion (if you use fedora that is). Browser wont have all the licensed codecs built in.

Also you would need to configure chromium to use hardware acceleration which depending the chromium version either works or doesn’t.

But anyways the codecs come to play when you are watching media in a browser, it wont have effect if the laptop is idling or not doing anything media wise.