The flashing was too triggering for me on my 2k monitor, so i’m using max performance now and the issue is gone.
Idle power consumption went up, as i said before, from 20 to 35W idle, but since its a 2060 … it will draw 150W+ in gaming on 2k anyways, since most of my games are GPU capped.
IMPORTANT NOTE : Setting your GPU to use “Max power” via the nvidia settings manager will not persist through X11 restarts or hard restarts of you PC. You will need to reapply it after every restart. Do it by going into the nvidia settings manager, switch power to adaptive and then back to power.
For checking the power consumption of your NVidia GPU use
nvidia-smi dmon
For me, the extra power draw in idle is worth not having the bug. But that differs. Also 100€ for electricity in germany is not much. I pay 70€ with basically only my PC and fridge running.
There are ways to set the powerstate via terminal commands, but ■■■■ me messing with that.
Last notes : If you are on KDE you might wanna check out this.
And also check GitHub - fwupd/fwupd: A system daemon to allow session software to update firmware
Comes with most Manjaro installs and takes 4 commands to check ( scroll down on the page )
I completely forgot to run it after i installed Manjaro 2 years ago and i remember my specific motherboard having a big issue where a firmware update was needed.
Well found it again today and updated my motherboard firmware from 6 years ago to a 2 month old update which not only let my CPU idle on 800Mhz now, but also reduced the power consumtion of the entire PC by 25%.
But that was a very specific bug on my specific setup … results may vary.