I'm using HP Victus laptop with RX6500M video card and if I set the GPU wattage to 45W I'm fine but I couldn't do it on Windows side. MSI Afterburner doesn't work.

Hi!

I know almost nothing about linux, what I know is thanks to SteamOS.

I've been researching how to undervolt my GPU on bazzite. I "only" need to install CoreCtrl and give it full control of AMD gpu but man I'm so overwhelmed. There's a lot of commands and even though the Gitlab site has an installation guide well. it is just guidance and they assme I have knowledge that I don't and it is not noob friendly, I have to edit something called GRUB bootloader which I don't even know how to find and there's no video guides to follow.

Maybe linux isn't just for me, I have this sensation I need to know a lot of programming just to do basic things as install software, Should I go back to Windows?. I'm happy with my SteamOS machine but I just wanted to undervolt my GPU (I also don't know how to do that and I will need to follow a guide or instructions) to keep temps a little bit lower and make sure they're always safe.

Thank you for reading.

I installed CoreCtrl and followed the instructions in the docs to set it up to run on startup and stay active. I have set this profile below for 3D Fullscreen. Am I correct in assuming that it will only be triggered when I run a game? Does it also work if the game is set to Windowed Fullscreen or Borderless Fullscreen? Because I have set the fan to not go 0 RPM but it clearly is in 0 RPM as you can see in the screenshot.

The problem is that my CPU governor isn't set to Performance even if I select it from CoreCtrl. I have checked using the command in the screenshot below, while idle and also while in games, but it's always On Demand.

I have tried using other tools like cpupower-gui or directly write to those files as mentioned in this post, but nothing is changing. I'm not sure what's happening with the CPU governor and why it isn't changing. Now I'm not even sure if CoreCtrl is overclocking my GPU either.

Hey,

i wondered which wattage is displayed in both. I came to this question because Windows displays 360W for an RX 7900 XTX Pulse and Linux 303W. Is Windows Total Board Power and Linux only Chip Power ? The Temps, Clocks and Fps are the same so i think the Power draw would also be the same on the whole Board and only the displayed Sensor is different.

Have tried my best to write this in english :)

Hey everyone,

I just discovered CoreCtl and couldn't be happier with it. I can finally control my 5700XT and Ryzen just fine without any clunkyness. Until now I was using amdgpu-fan to control my GPU but that just gave me full control over the fans. I decided to install something that also allowed me to control voltages since the 5700XT series comes with really high values by default.

Not only I gained performance and stability but I also lowered temps. I'd do this on Windows with overdrive (or whatever name it has now), but I always kinda struggled to do it on Linux. As an experienced user I'd always be like "ah, this one thing i can't really fix" but now after giving this app a try I found it's made super easy, as it should.

Over the years we had different tools and apps trying to simulate the same but they were kinda shit to be honest, I'm glad we finally have something this good in place.

Installation is quite easy as well. Installing a package, some bootloader changes to have full control and that's pretty much it.

I also realized feral's gamemoderun was not working properly with Steam/proton by accessing the CPU tab on CoreCtl. I had a game launched (with gamemoderun enabled in the properties) and when I checked the CPU profile used I could see it was still set on OnDemand). You can also change the cpu modes in the app :)

Maybe this comes handy to those who haven't used it. Cheers!