Asus Zephyrus G14 Poor Battery Life?

[brotherwhoneedshelp]

I'm getting around 4:15 hours of battery life till it gets to 10% with my G14 (R7, 1660TI). I was only using it browsing Firefox, watching YouTube videos at 480p and 1080p over WiFi. Also typing some stuff in notepad with the brightness set to 30-40 even 10-20 in the last hour. Keyboard back-light was off, AniMe off, it was also constantly on silent mode. GPU and windows drivers are up to date. Applications using the most power where Firefox and Asus Armoury Crate. CPU usage was around 5% and GPU in the 30%. Everything else was pretty much at stock settings since I had the laptop just for a couple of days.

Couldn't help it but notice the good results of battery life in the G14 review articles. They where reporting on getting 8 to 10 hours even 11 hours of battery life with heavier tasks than I did (like heavier multitasking). One of the articles from NotebookCheck mentioned they where getting 4 hours with one of the first units they tested but they got another one from Asus and now the second unit can last over 9 hours.

I did notice something weird with the Nvidia GPU: when I launch the Asus Armoury Crate the sotware reads that the GPU is running at 300Mhz frequency before it goes to zero after a couple of seconds. I decided to install GPU-Z and to my surprise the Nvidia GPU is constantly running at 300Mhz. Shouldn't it be at zero (power saving mode) when the laptop is in silent mode?

 

[Lutfij]

Use the SKU of your laptop to see if you have any BIOS updates pending. You might want to use DDU to remove the GPU drivers then manually source the latest driver from Nvidia's support site, manually install the driver in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

Given that this is a Ryzen platform as well, make sure your chipset drivers are reinstalled as well.

 

[brotherwhoneedshelp]

Use the SKU of your laptop to see if you have any BIOS updates pending. You might want to use DDU to remove the GPU drivers then manually source the latest driver from Nvidia's support site, manually install the driver in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

Given that this is a Ryzen platform as well, make sure your chipset drivers are reinstalled as well.

I will try this once I get the chance. Although I do remember the BIOS got updated automatically when I was installing Windows updates.