Probably ping @Matt_Hartley
power-profiles-daemon is now available in Fedora 39 
FEDORA-2024-2e56fbf743 — enhancement update for power-profiles-daemon — Fedora Updates System
The copr repo is no longer necessary and you should remove it.
Is it the case that now nothing needs to be done for PPD on AMD?
That’s correct! You can check this after updating by executing this in a terminal: powerprofilesctl
It should show the cpu and platform driver.
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Will NixOS be added to that support list over the next few years?
Fixed, latest dnf updates have you on the latest PPD for Fedora 39. We no longer need the COPR per updates from AMD.
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Any experts in this thread know if autocpu-freq is making use of PPD in the background or if there are undesirable disadvantages to autocpu-freq on the FW 16? From what I can tell PPD just sets scheduler to whatever is desired, and autocpu-freq does that as well.
They conflict. You should not use at the same time as PPD.
Thanks :-). I’ll do some testing then to see which better suits my needs. Is there one you prefer of the two?
Update: Simply switching from auto-cpufreq to power-profiles-daemon resulted in a drastic 1W minimum power draw reduction down to ~-5.5W at desktop. Pair that with better integration with my DE (Plasma) and it’s a no-brainer to switch.
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FYI PPD 0.21 just released today:
Ping your distros to pull it in.
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Tested and gave karma for F39 on bodhi.
I had to undo my script mess, but I’m thankful that just works now.
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Watching videos on fedora is now similar to windows or is it still wild for amd??
This does not fix the deficiencies in the software stack causing high power consumption for video playback. This is a much bigger problem and requires changes in the compositors.
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And whatever the hell is wrong with the decoder/driver even without the rest of the sub.optimal software stack.
Thanks. Did see the .21 come through on Arch.
Think this is a logical step in the right direction and look forward to using it.
lol, can you elaborate? On Ubuntu things were a mess but since Arch I haven’t noticed as many issues but still have A/V sync issues. Just want to make sure I understand other quirks I may not be aware of.
Battery doesn’t seem to be an too bad since Arch, but Ubuntu was ridonkulous power consumption w/ video
For some reason the hardware decoder uses more power for just the decoding bit (no scaling or displaying or anything, just decode and discard) than complete playback with scaling and displaying on windows. On windows you can play a 1080p 30 file for a but under 1W over idle, on linux just decoding it takes a bit over 3W and with display over 4W.
As it is video playback ob battery about matches my old t480s which has a smaller battery. The intel hw decoders apparently don’t have that problem.
This is pretty much the only reason I kind of regret going with amd, especially since it does not seem to get addressed and just gets dismissed. Otherwise the amd platform is pretty amazing.
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Oh, wow, that is drastic. I guess since on ubuntu I had high cpu issues with video that I didn’t realize that although now my cpu is very low with playback that power consumption is very high compared to windows. and now thinking harder it dies slower but thinking back it is still actually quite fast for what it is.
That is a huge bummer, and it doesn’t sound like something that is getting addressed / will finish being addressed anytime soon.
Appreciate you explaining it.
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Depends on the playback software, and if the playback software uses the hardware capable codec to decode or not. So kind of: It depends.
The vp9 stuttering thing was addressed relatively quickly once it was acknowledged, wishful thinking says this one might be too XD.
It’s kind of a catch 22, if you use more video below 1080p 30 you may be better off turning off hw decoding for now, but you’ll get obliterated once you try playing 4k 60 stuff or higher.
Yep - playing back 2K → 4K only.