New comment by thomas-t-w on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/15055#issuecomment-538522103

Comment:
Closing this. The solution was to run powertop --auto-tune in case anyone else runs into the problem. I guess other distros change default power management settings from upstream. I am now reaching PC8 on the probook 430 g6.