Nvidia on Linux drawing more power than Windows

[birdie]

I first talked about it in 2017 :-)

Very(!) slow ramp down from high to low clock speeds leading to a significantly increased power cons

Old description: [s]a simple act of scrolling a web page in Mozilla Firefox 52.0.2 makes power consumption of my GTX 1060 6GB go from 7W to 35W. I’m not running any compositing manager - I’ve got a plain X11 desktop with zero effects. Please fix this bug.[/s] New description: new NVIDIA drivers may take up to 36 seconds to go from high clocks to lower clocks even when you have a very light load (say, a web browser without running WebGL). This leads to a decreased battery life and significantl…