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We need option to disable 4 cores - currently CPU eats 75-80% of power and GPU is starved

BBB
Level 9

Current APU power management is really bad. Drivers tries to max CPU power instead of GPU even when real CPU usage is below 10-15%. So 90% of energy is wasted on CPU that done nothing and GPU is starved to death with lowest possible clock. I looks like that:

CPU frequency 3300-3500 Mhz (or higher), real usage 5-10% and 

GPU frequency 800-1000 MHz, real usage 99-100% 

I understand that you can't fix bad AMD drivers. But you can allow us to disable 4 CPU cores in BIOS. If we disable 4 CPU cores then power usage of CPU will drop 50% and GPU will have much higher clocks on every TDP level. This will give us much better performance in games. 

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dinoypeter123
Level 7

The option to disable cores has been available on Windows for a long time via msconfig.

kaminari
Level 7

You can use the software to disable the CPU boost and lock the GPU frequency as well.

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Where I can find such app? Is it safe?