I have a Ryzen 9700x + RX 9070 XT. The iGPU is enabled but not connected to a monitor and it's not used for anything. Hwinfo shows it's drawing 40w in idle, and while gaming (it's not used to render the graphics, dGPU is doing all the work) it's power draw actually spikes up to 160w momentarily and generally ranges from 40-80w..
I'm going to disable it in BIOS, but I just want to have a discussion about this. Is hwinfo accurate? Is this normal behavior? Why is iGPU using so much power even though it's not doing anything? The CPU itself draws only 80w max.
I'm going to disable it in BIOS, but I just want to have a discussion about this. Is hwinfo accurate? Is this normal behavior? Why is iGPU using so much power even though it's not doing anything? The CPU itself draws only 80w max.