powerstat
Powerstat measures the power consumption of a machine using the battery stats or the Intel RAPL interface. The output is like vmstat but also shows power consumption statistics. At the end of a run, powerstat will calculate the average, standard deviation and min/max of the gathered data. (by ColinIanKing)
powercap
C bindings to the Linux Power Capping Framework in sysfs (by powercap)
| powerstat | powercap | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | |
| 103 | 52 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.3 | 4.4 | |
| 3 months ago | 5 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Framework Laptop Experience - 2 Months in
I'd recommend installing powerstat to test your power usage more reliably. Give it a try with it running "idle" on KDE and on sway - I bet it'll improve w/ the latter. The 12th gen CPUs seem to be extremely sensitive to near idle power usage.
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battery life
FWIW, this seems pretty normal to me for your hardware. I have a 1260P w/ 2 x 32GB DDR4-3200 SODIMMs and a Phison E18 PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive and am running Arch w/ 6.0.2 and vanilla sway. With wifi on, bluetooth off, 1% display brightness, powerstat gives me an average of 3.51W w/ a std deviation of 0.06, w/ 99.75% C10 residency.
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Boinc lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer
You can use runtime power limits to put yourself pretty much anywhere on the performance-efficiency curve you want, within thermal limits. Its a useful way to reduce heat/fan noise and can improve perf/watt.
On Linux, see: https://github.com/powercap/powercap
- X1 Carbon G10 with U-Series CPU (massive fan issues)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing powerstat and powercap you can also consider the following projects:
Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
clr-power-tweaks - Power management tweaks for Clear Linux.