I’m running Fedora 43 KDE on my new Thinkpad X1 2-in-1 with Core Ultra 7 258v. The stock power profiles have something very wrong with them: If I use Performance mode, my CPU temps would get so hot while gaming that I’d go into this vicious cycle of good fps > throttled and terrible fps > good fps >throttled and terrible fps.
Core temps would redline at sustained 95C before the throttle kicks in. To mitigate this, I had to use Balanced mode, which resulted in perfect, consistent game performance and average sustained temps of 55-65C.
After replacing the stock power profiles with auto-cpufreq 3.0, all of these problems are solved. I can run my system on Performance mode with no overheating/throttling, and my whole system is substantially more responsive, even in max power-saving mode on battery.
It feels like my computer had all the gunk cleaned out of its circuits and it’s unbelievbly faster now without ever overheating.
This is all with the stock intel_pstate scaling driver.
All the feedback I can find online for auto-cpufreq is overwhelmingly positive, which is what prompted me to attempt the switch, and boy howdy am I glad I did.
As such, I propose switching from tuned (or whatever runs the stock profiles) to auto-cpufreq.
Or at least fixing the stock profiles to not cause such catastrophic overheating in Performance mode.