With a bit of tweaking, I figured that enabling power management on on "Audio codec": echo '1' > '/sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save'; helped a little bit. But not that much. Now on 4.14.33, I get 10h, while on 4.16.1 I get 5h. There is something else. By the way, how do I make the above /sys/ tweak permanent on GuixSD? -- Pierre Neidhardt