Not really, AMD’s FSR upscaling can increase visual quality/fidelity while using less power than rendering at full resolution. This can be easily seen in Steam Deck’s battery life improvement when enabling it. Scaling this to millions of devices can indeed reduce energy usage.

When you read about “AI power consumption”, its mostly about training the models, not as much the usage after it’s trained.

Well here I am running Nobara 39. What can I say? Everything works just fine out of the box (benefits of full AMD system I guess). It’s hard to compare performance because my old system was very bloated, it started as Fedora 35 and been updating ever since, but overall I’ve been getting improvements of around 20+ fps on games. I feel the biggest improvement is moving away from Gnome X11 to KDE + Wayland. In Gnome I had to use X11 because half the stuff wouldnt work properly otherwise, while now with Wayland haven’t had a single issue.

TLDR; If you game on Linux and you have some free time, can’t go wrong with Nobara.

I think I’ll finally bite the bullet and migrate from Fedora 39 to Nobara. Wish me luck!