High CPU usage and temp

Issues & Assistance
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Hello all,

I’ve been having some temperature issues.
While running Steam (Native) temp increases to 60/70 C. It’s consuming around 70% of CPU only for having it open.
And while gaming, Path of Exile for example, CPU temp reaches over 90C.

Tried with different kernels (LTS and ZEN) but the issue persists.

Any additional info I could provide to track the root cause?
Note I don’t get these temps running other OS.

garuda-inxi:

System:
Kernel: 6.6.5-AMD-znver2 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-amd-znver2
root=UUID=51d05e24-fc7d-47db-9d28-178f113067e2 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.10 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2
dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Strix G513IM_G513IM v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: G513IM v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: G513IM.329 date: 03/01/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 70.5 Wh (91.0%) condition: 77.5/90.0 Wh (86.1%)
volts: 16.5 min: 15.9 model: AS3GWYF3KC GA50358 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: not charging
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Zen 2 gen: 3 level: v3 note: check built: 2020-22
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x60 (96) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x8600106
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB L3: 8 MiB
desc: 2x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3816 high: 4291 min/max: 400/4300 scaling:
driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: performance cores: 1: 4030 2: 3614 3: 3111
4: 3485 5: 4270 6: 4274 7: 3218 8: 3394 9: 4291 10: 3831 11: 4102 12: 4283
13: 2962 14: 3649 15: 4276 16: 4278 bogomips: 92660
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06 alternate: nvidia_drm non-free: 545.xx+
status: current (as of 2023-10; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
off: DP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2520 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Renoir [Radeon RX Vega 6 ] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu
v: kernel arch: GCN-5 code: Vega process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie:
gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636
class-ID: 0300 temp: 60.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.2
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,nvidia
unloaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa dri: radeonsi
gpu: amdgpu,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1013x285mm (39.88x11.22")
s-diag: 1052mm (41.43")
Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DP-1-0 note: disabled pos: right
model: ViewSonic VA1655-FHD serial: <filter> built: 2022 res: 1920x1080
hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: eDP-1 mapped: eDP pos: primary,left model: TL156VDXP01
built: 2020 res: 1920x1080 hz: 300 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2
size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0
drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: radeonsi device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia
surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland,device-2
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 23.2.1-arch1.2
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (renoir LLVM
16.0.6 DRM 3.54 6.6.5-AMD-znver2) device-ID: 1002:1636 memory: 500 MiB
unified: no
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.269 layers: 14 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: AMD
Radeon Graphics (RADV RENOIR) driver: mesa radv v: 23.2.1-arch1.2
device-ID: 1002:1636 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 1 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06
device-ID: 10de:2520 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 2 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 16.0.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 23.2.1-arch1.2 (LLVM
16.0.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1
chip-ID: 10de:228e class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 05:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x,
snd_pci_acp6x, snd_acp_pci, snd_sof_amd_renoir, snd_sof_amd_vangogh pcie:
gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
bus-ID: 05:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-4: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.6.5-AMD-znver2 status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: AzureWave driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:7961 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: IMC Networks Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 13d3:3563
class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 254.4 GiB (53.3%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKNU512GZ
size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 002C temp: 30.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 254.4 GiB (53.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 576 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 254.4 GiB (53.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 254.4 GiB (53.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%)
used: 254.4 GiB (53.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.06 GiB used: 120.5 MiB (0.8%)
priority: 100 comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 16
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 63.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 3600
Info:
Processes: 403 Uptime: 44m wakeups: 0 Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est.
available: 15.06 GiB used: 6.15 GiB (40.8%) Init: systemd v: 255
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1852 libs: 557 tools: octopi,pamac,paru
Shell: fish v: 3.6.2 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.31
Garuda (2.6.19-2):
System install date:     2023-12-05
Last full system update: 2023-12-10
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-dkms
Windows dual boot:       Probably (Run as root to verify)
Failed units:
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Do you have steam building Vulcan shaders in the background? Or KDE’s (spotlight) search function indexing the hard drive in the background?

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Background processing for Vulkan is disabled and I believe search function was not indexing anything. Disabled file search in settings just in case.

With HTOP running, I realized cpu usage randomly spikes and just by using Brave and Steam my temp is around 60, not too bad but still too much just for that.

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You are using the performance governor, which I understand will push the CPU to its limits. Check it out, you are averaging a 3.8 GHz clock speed, which is pretty high and toward the upward limit of what your CPU is capable of:

If you are having issues with overheating, you may want to investigate whether your cooling solution can be upgraded. If not, perhaps you can try a less aggressive CPU governor and see if it the performance is adequate for your use case.

Are your other OS’s running the CPU at an average of 3.8 GHz? If they are running the CPU at a more modest clock speed, they will have more modest temperatures.

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Thanks for your reply!

I did have a misunderstanding of the governors profiles. However, I just tried changing to balanced and I’m still hitting 90 degrees while running Path of Exile and just by running Brave and Steam 60 degrees. Is this normal?

Nearly 10 degrees less by running Windows with the performance profile.

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If you play the same game on Windows and Garuda, how to the FPS figures compare if you are using the same graphics settings? There’s a chance that Garuda is just pushing more FPS and therefore making things hotter.

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