Load Power Intel Core i7-5600U testing with a LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW and Intel HD 5500 3072MB on Ubuntu 17.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Ubuntu 17.10 Stock: Processor: Intel Core i7-5600U @ 3.20GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U-OPI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG MZNTE128, Graphics: Intel HD 5500 3072MB (950MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 7265 OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.2, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.15: Processor: Intel Core i7-5600U @ 3.20GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U-OPI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG MZNTE128, Graphics: Intel HD 5500 3072MB (950MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 7265 OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.15.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20171203, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.2, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.15 + Powertop: Processor: Intel Core i7-5600U @ 3.20GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U-OPI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG MZNTE128, Graphics: Intel HD 5500 3072MB (950MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 7265 OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.15.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20171203, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.2, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Linux 4.15 + TLP Power Savings: Processor: Intel Core i7-5600U @ 3.20GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U-OPI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG MZNTE128, Graphics: Intel HD 5500 3072MB (950MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 7265 OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.15.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20171203, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.2, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.10 Stock .... 38.12 |=============================================== Linux 4.15 ............ 39.00 |================================================ Linux 4.15 + Powertop . 38.08 |=============================================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 System Power Consumption Monitor Milliwatts < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 17.10 Stock ............. MIN: 7295 AVG: 15357 MAX: 19511 Linux 4.15 ..................... MIN: 7268 AVG: 14992 MAX: 19479 Linux 4.15 + Powertop .......... MIN: 5938 AVG: 14418 MAX: 19034 Linux 4.15 + TLP Power Savings . MIN: 5776 AVG: 8159 MAX: 10896 x264 2017-09-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 17.10 Stock ............. 66.81 |======================================= Linux 4.15 ..................... 67.42 |======================================= Linux 4.15 + Powertop .......... 67.25 |======================================= Linux 4.15 + TLP Power Savings . 67.16 |======================================= x264 2017-09-08 System Power Consumption Monitor Milliwatts < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 17.10 Stock ............. MIN: 10167 AVG: 15244 MAX: 18139 Linux 4.15 ..................... MIN: 10207 AVG: 14916 MAX: 18277 Linux 4.15 + Powertop .......... MIN: 8936 AVG: 14281 MAX: 17685 Linux 4.15 + TLP Power Savings . MIN: 7444 AVG: 13505 MAX: 17379 Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 17.10 Stock ............. 64.38 |======================================= Linux 4.15 ..................... 63.39 |====================================== Linux 4.15 + Powertop .......... 63.09 |====================================== Linux 4.15 + TLP Power Savings . 62.93 |====================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 System Power Consumption Monitor Milliwatts < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 17.10 Stock ............. MIN: 10284 AVG: 19099 MAX: 21009 Linux 4.15 ..................... MIN: 10044 AVG: 19026 MAX: 21025 Linux 4.15 + Powertop .......... MIN: 8788 AVG: 18447 MAX: 20429 Linux 4.15 + TLP Power Savings . MIN: 9135 AVG: 18434 MAX: 20398 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 17.10 Stock ............. 11.77 |======================================= Linux 4.15 ..................... 11.74 |======================================= Linux 4.15 + Powertop .......... 11.82 |======================================= Linux 4.15 + TLP Power Savings . 11.74 |======================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5 System Power Consumption Monitor Milliwatts < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 17.10 Stock ............. MIN: 10507 AVG: 15759 MAX: 17654 Linux 4.15 ..................... MIN: 10272 AVG: 15656 MAX: 17601 Linux 4.15 + Powertop .......... MIN: 9448 AVG: 14796 MAX: 16738 Linux 4.15 + TLP Power Savings . MIN: 9116 AVG: 14729 MAX: 16767 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 17.10 Stock ............. 7.11 |======================================== Linux 4.15 ..................... 7.06 |======================================== Linux 4.15 + Powertop .......... 7.13 |======================================== Linux 4.15 + TLP Power Savings . 7.07 |======================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Milliwatts < Lower Is Better Ubuntu 17.10 Stock ............. MIN: 9801 AVG: 14199 MAX: 16610 Linux 4.15 ..................... MIN: 9724 AVG: 14264 MAX: 16827 Linux 4.15 + Powertop .......... MIN: 8559 AVG: 13267 MAX: 15881 Linux 4.15 + TLP Power Savings . MIN: 8715 AVG: 13174 MAX: 15748 System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Milliwatts Ubuntu 17.10 Stock ............. MIN: 7295 AVG: 16784 MAX: 21009 Linux 4.15 ..................... MIN: 7268 AVG: 16644 MAX: 21025 Linux 4.15 + Powertop .......... MIN: 5938 AVG: 15861 MAX: 20429 Linux 4.15 + TLP Power Savings . MIN: 5776 AVG: 15582 MAX: 20398