FW16 BIOS 3.05 Battery Now Drains on Balanced Power Profile

[PixelRepak]

Device Information

System Model or SKU

Please select one of the following

• Framework Laptop 13 (11th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Framework Laptop 13 (12th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Framework Laptop 13 (13th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)
• Framework Laptop 13 (Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 1)
• Framework Laptop 16 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)

BIOS VERSION

3.05

DIY Edition information

If you are experiencing an issue on a DIY system, Please also fill out the memory and storage devices you are using.

Mainboard: Ryzen 9 7940HS
Expansion Bay: RX 7700S
Memory: Kingston FURY Impact 32GB (2x16GB) 5600MT/s KF556S40IBK2-32
Storage: WD_BLACK 1TB SN770M + WD_BLACK 1TB SN850X

Port/Peripheral information

1. [ Framework 180w Power Adapter / USB-C ]
2. [ No device / HDMI]
3. [ No device / USB-A ]
4. [ No device / USB-C ]

The following are for Laptop 16 only.
5. [ No device / USB-A ]
6. [ No device / 3.5mm Audio ]

Standalone Operation

Are you running your mainboard as a standalone device. Is standalone mode enabled in the BIOS?

• Yes
• No

Describe the bug

After upgrading to BIOS 3.05 Windows 11 balanced power profile now drains battery when gaming.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Upgrade to BIOS 3.05
2. Ensure windows 11 power profile is balanced
3. Launch a graphically intensive game
4. Battery level will drop during gameplay

Expected behavior

Previous BIOS versions the windows 11 power profile balanced would not drain battery while plugged in and gaming.

Screenshots

Operating System (please complete the following information):

• OS/Distribution: Windows 11
• Version: 24H2

[Jumpforce]

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I have the same Issue but on Linux. More Info below.

Device Information

System Model or SKU

Please select one of the following

• Framework Laptop 13 (11th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Framework Laptop 13 (12th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Framework Laptop 13 (13th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)
• Framework Laptop 13 (Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 1)
• Framework Laptop 16 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)

BIOS VERSION

03.05

DIY Edition information

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: ordered via framework 2x16GB; can give dmidecode output if required
Storage: Crucial P3 Plus 4TB PCIe M.2 2280 SSD

Port/Peripheral information

1. USB-C / OWC Thunderbolt3/USB4 Dock
2. HDMI / display connected
3. USB-A / not connected
4. USB-C / Framework 180w Power Adapter
5. Display Port / not connected
6. USB-A / SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Arctis 9 receiver

Standalone Operation

Are you running your mainboard as a standalone device. Is standalone mode enabled in the BIOS?

• Yes
• No

Describe the bug

Battery is being drained in balanced mode during GPU intensive workloads. Noticed it first time playing a game (Medieval Dynasty on max settings 1080p 144fps cap)

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Update to 3.05
2. Play any gpu intensive game
3. Battery drains in balanced mode

Expected behavior

Battery should not drain in balanced mode

Screenshots

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Operating System (please complete the following information):

• OS/Distribution: NAME="Pop!_OS"
• Version: VERSION="22.04 LTS"
• Linux Kernel Version: Linux homeindustry 6.9.3-76060903-generic #202405300957173214176822.04~f2697e1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed N x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Additional context

The battery does not drain when playing games that are not gpu intensive.

[flemesre]

Same issue on my Windows 11 24H2 Framework 16 as well - using the 180W Framework charger. When running moderate to heavy GPU loads, the battery will drain at up to ~23W sustained (!) on the Balanced power profile. This did not occur on BIOS 3.03.

[Jumpforce]

Same issue on my Windows 11 24H2 Framework 16 as well - using the 180W Framework charger. When running moderate to heavy GPU loads, the battery will drain at up to ~23W sustained (!) on the Balanced power profile. This did not occur on BIOS 3.03.
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You mentioned the discharge rate. I am also sitting at 20 - 23 Watts discharge rate on load at balanced profile.

[flemesre]

To add to this, I've noticed that the CPU will also get stuck randomly at ~0.715V and 0.544 GHz when light GPU loads (here ~20W) are applied to the dGPU in Best Power Efficiency mode. The behaviour disappears immediately once the GPU load is removed. This did not happen on BIOS 3.03, and makes avoiding the Balanced battery drain issue very annoying.

With light GPU load: (CPU voltage and clocks are in leftmost column)

Immediately after closing light GPU load: