The Importance Of The TUXEDO Driver Package On Their Newer Ryzen Laptops

Here's a side-by-side look at the workloads where there was measurable benefit to the TUXEDO performance profile on the Pulse 14 Gen 3:

All the data in full can be found on this result page.

Across the wide range of workloads and both light and heavy tasks, the performance profile yielded around a 6% improvement overall.

When running in the performance profile, the Ryzen 7 7840HS power consumption went up from a 26 to 34 Watt average and was now frequently hitting the 54 Watt rated maximum compared to typically staying at 35 Watts or less out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 23.10.

So for those that didn't know about the TUXEDO Performance Profile functionality that can be easily managed via the TUXEDO Control Center and the tuxedo-drivers DKMS modules (or assumed it was just ACPI Platform Profile behavior), now you know. More details on the Pulse 14 Gen 3 can be found at TUXEDOComputers.com.