I’ve found in a bunch of games I can target lower framerates at lower tdps and drop my Temps and battery usage a lot. But shouldn’t the deck know it doesn’t need to work so hard on its own? If I don’t drop tdp the deck might still go full jet engine even though there’s no change in fps with the refresh I’m targeting
Yes and no. It’s not just going to use power it doesn’t need to, but you have to set limits somewhere. At the very least, it’s just going to dump everything into generating as many frames as possible, so you at least need to set a frame limit.