AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Switch To More Aggressive Power Heuristics By Default

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That said...

By that logic, you can also ban Zen chiplet models (i.e. those which aren't monolithic APUs) and AM5 desktop (there are exceptions, but few) as a whole, as they burn energy like crazy in idle doing nothing. Should sum up to many tons of CO2 and other energy production waste on a global scale.
But instead of a ban for existing products, I'd rather see policies that force desktop computer makers to match mobile devices idle power draw in the future. AMD just gives a crap otherwise.

While I'm at it: Maybe they should be forced to avoid this utter nonsense also with GPUs. As RDNA3 dGPUs are also just terrible garbage in that regard. >40W TGP when playing a 480p video or gif is dumb even for AMD standards. And this is on Windows with "properly" working "power-saving" features...

There are tradeoffs, actually. Energy that you carry around with you in a Li-ion battery costs many times as much as energy that comes from a wall plug, and if wall-plug computers were as efficient as battery computers, somebody is doing very bad engineering. What you are proposing is for big government to force someone to do bad engineering.

If you Regulators insist on regulating something, force the transition to single-voltage PSU architecture (dual voltage, really, including the standby rail). Intel has already done most of the work with ATX12VO. Lenovo/Dell/HP switched to single-voltage years ago on their own initiative, because it's cheaper for them and makes it easier to hit regulatory efficiency targets. The DIY market got stuck on multi-rail ATX because of a combination of everybody not being able to move at once and backwards compatibility ludditism.