AMD Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. AMD P-State Linux Testing

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 3 October 2022 at 11:30 AM EDT. Page 5 of 6. 18 Comments.
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State

The amd-pstate performance was making outright poor decisions along with acpi-cpufreq ondemand while running the Blender 3D software...

Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State

The amd-pstate performance remained in an awkward state too for Intel's OSPRay Studio rendering software on the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U.

Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State

For many different workloads tested, there wasn't all that much of a difference for this Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U laptop.

Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State

With VP9 video encoding using libvpx, the amd-pstate schedutil governor again was delivering lower performance for a slight edge in power efficiency.

Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State
Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. P-State

The same went for 7-Zip compression.


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