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Comment by kllrnohj

5 hours ago

Wouldn't this prevent the nvidia GPU from being power gated since it's never "idle"? So like your battery life regresses?

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nyrikki  39 minutes ago

While it may prevent sleep, one of the frustrations I have on an old skylake desktop with a bunch of 1080ti GPUs is that when set to power saving modes, the GPUs sit at 1x2.0 pcie lanes and low wattage. That slows down loading quite a bit.

So it will use more power, but nothing close to when the GPU is being used.