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# Asus Zephyrus G14 GPU powersaving
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In order to get the best battery life, the dedicated GPU must be disabled.
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Simply unloading the driver or enabling powersaving feaures isn't enough.
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In the future, the nvidia driver may allow for entering D3 (full power off) on it's own, but for now, there's another solution: acpi calls. This requires the `acpi_call` kernel module, on Arch this can be installed with the `acpi_call` or `acpi_call-dkms` package.
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Thanks to /u/FailSpai on reddit for finding the correct ACPI call. The GPU can be powered off and on with the call "\\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PG00". For example, to turn off the GPU completely, run `sudo sh -c 'echo "\\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PG00._OFF" > /proc/acpi/call'`. Similarly, to turn it back on, `sudo sh -c 'echo "\\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PG00._ON" > /proc/acpi/call'`. You can verify the state of the GPU by running `sudo sh -c 'echo "\\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PEGP.SGST" > /proc/acpi/call'`, then running `sudo cat /proc/acpi/call`. 0x0 means off, and anything above 0 means on. Alternatively, just look at the power draw, `cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/power_now` and if it's under 10-11w then it's off.
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This allows for the same, or better, idle power draw than Windows, as long as you have done other tweaks (disable boost, change CPU governor, etc).
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If the GPU is powered off during suspend, the system will hang. This can be solved by using a systemd hook to turn the GPU back on before suspend, then turning it back off after. For example, place this script in an executable file in `/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/`:
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```
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#!/bin/bash
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if [ "${1}" == "pre" ]; then
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sudo sh -c 'echo "\\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PG00._ON" > /proc/acpi/call'
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sleep 2 # The GPU needs a bit of time to ensure that it's on before suspend
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elif [ "${1}" == "post" ]; then
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if xrandr --listproviders | grep NVIDIA; then
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echo "GPU is in use for PRIME, keeping on"
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else
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sudo sh -c 'echo "\\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PG00._OFF" > /proc/acpi/call'
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echo "GPU powered off"
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fi
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fi
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```
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As the script suggests, you can't power off the GPU while it's in use. I would recommend using optimus-manager-amd (available on the AUR as optimus-manager-amd-git) to automatically handle switching Xorg sessions and automatically depowering the GPU when it's not used. You can see my config files for optimus-manager-amd [here](https://git.deck.sh/shark/g14gpu/-/tree/master/etc/optimus-manager). When in `amd` mode, I only draw 5.5-6w on idle, and it bounces around up to 10w when using firefox with the second half of the cores disabled.
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Again, thanks to /u/FailSpai for digging through the ACPI tables to find the right call, you can find his comment about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/hx5j8q/success_with_laptop_gpu_passthrough_on_asus_rog/g0m3kvh/).
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This is a collection of scripts for managing the GPU in the Asus Zephyrus G14.
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The setup involves using bumblebee, bbswitch, and GPU passthrough to a Windows 10 vm. bbswitch is unable to wake the GPU up at this time, so for now I'm not using it. However it was able to completely depower the GPU, allowing idle power usage of 5-7w just like on windows.
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The setup originally involved using bumblebee, bbswitch, and GPU passthrough to a Windows 10 vm. bbswitch is unable to wake the GPU up at this time, so for now I'm not using it. I am now using optimus-manager with some acpi calls to fully depower and wake the GPU.
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`startvm` unbinds from nvidia, binds to vfio-pci, runs the vm, then when you type 'stop' it shuts it down and gives the GPU back to the nvidia driver for use with bumblebee.
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#!/bin/bash
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#case "$1" in
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# pre)
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# /home/cole/g14gpu/gpuon.sh ;;
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# post)
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# /home/cole/g14gpu/gpuoff.sh ;;
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#esac
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if [ "${1}" == "pre" ]; then
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bash /home/cole/g14gpu/gpuon.sh
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sudo sh -c 'echo "\\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PG00._ON" > /proc/acpi/call'
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sleep 1 # The GPU needs a bit of time to ensure that it's on before suspend
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elif [ "${1}" == "post" ]; then
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bash /home/cole/g14gpu/gpuoff.sh
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fi
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if xrandr --listproviders | grep NVIDIA; then
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echo "GPU is in use for PRIME, keeping on"
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else
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sudo sh -c 'echo "\\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PG00._OFF" > /proc/acpi/call'
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echo "GPU powered off"
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fi
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fi
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