It’s a laptop from Microsoft, Surface Book 2. I run Fedora Linux and Arch Linux, both of them have this issue. Either vanilla kernel
or surface kernel
has the same problem.
I’ve tried most solution: cpupower
tlp
thermald
throttled
power-profiles-daemon
intel-pstate
s-tui
turbostat
disable SecureBoot
I still cannot get it working.
The CPU is not hot, neither power throttling. I can get it up to 4.2GHz
, 35W package
on Windows with Throttlestop
These digits are What I’ve never seen on Linux.
It always stays below 2.1GHz
, 1.3GHz
when all core are stressed, always below 55C. I’ve made sure, TurboBoost
is on.
I’ve opened these post looking for similar experience, not many responds.
Book2 (15") - No CPU Turbo Boost (always below 2.0GHz)
What’s the maximum CPU frequency you can get on Linux with your Surface?
This is the performance I got on Windows
Idle:
Run full load for 1min:
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opped working, and I couldn’t make it permanent. I would think you’d have to understand a bit of kernel development to be able to mitigate this is
Thank you for your share! I’ve seen those links before, no luck.
I think modifying MSR is what this script does. Throttled / Erpalma - Github
Certain laptop CPUs are not adequately supported on linux.
This is really sad. I found almost all **Intel Kaby Lake R ** processor suffer this problem.
Intel Core i7-8550U cpu frequency drops on high loads on Ubuntu 20.04 | AskUbuntu
My previous reply was erroneus. There are reports of those processors working properly, so they probably are fully supported on linux. I suggest you keep at it.
The first response of this thread has some other things to try: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1329587/intel-core-i7-8550u-cpu-frequency-drops-on-high-loads-on-ubuntu-20-04
What the hell is going on???
Exact issue like them:
exactly like this
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2164410#p2164410
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2166299#p2166299