Ok, seeing all those reviewers showing 50-70 watt idle, I was a bit worried something was wrong with my system using more than double that, 2nd gpu should not add that much when not in use. I’ve now got the system hovering between 90 and110 Watts on linux.
Running windows on bare metal however I can’t get it below 170 even with all background services and one gpu shut down. Oddly enough I’m pretty sure that under similar load the power draw seems to be a lot closer, which kinda suggest windows is not throttling down the cpu.
Strangely enough I don’t have that issue when running windows 10 in a VM. On the same machine with the second GPU passed through and active, Steam downloading and installing games in the background and the system hovers between 130-150. I find it really odd that running both linux and windows at the same time uses less power than just running windows 10 bare metal and with one gpu shut down?