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Starting #Fedora 38 power consumption tests, and decided to see how much extra power gets consumed by simply switching refresh rate from 60Hz to 120Hz (as this demands more work from the #Radeon card).

[As a refresher, my this is a tower PC with an #AMD Ryzen 3900X and Radeon RX 6800 XT]

- 1% CPU utilization (idle) at 60Hz: 67W (this is the same result as Windows 11, btw)

- 1% CPU utlilization (idle) at 120Hz: 97W

So an extra 30W pulled from the wall just to double my desktop refresh rate.