well you could try to power down wifi, if not needed. wifi is one of the peripherals that needs a lot of power.
not sure what kind of drives you’re running. using nvme’s is the best way to save power in that case.
you can use a script and power down cores. for example if you’re running a 8-core you could power down for example 5 cores to power-saving and use 3 cores on power-on-demand mode. in this case you could eventually drop the wattage of the cpu explicit and control them with individual settings in different situations. all other peripherals will not give any significant power drop.
edit: the graphics-adapter. may you give us an impression of your system by posting the output of the inxi described below
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