CPUFreq vs. P-State CPU Scaling Governor Tests On Various Vulkan/OpenGL Games

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 4 April 2017 at 09:42 AM EDT. Page 3 of 7. 12 Comments.
OpenGL CPU Driver/Governor Scaling

Under Metro Last Light Redux was also only minor shifts in performance with the exception of CPUFreq powersave.

OpenGL CPU Driver/Governor Scaling

Tomb Raider was crashing during some of the test runs, but for the runs that were recorded, P-State powersave was on par with CPUFreq performance.

OpenGL CPU Driver/Governor Scaling

The ET: Legacy performance was unchanged except when using CPUFreq powersave.

OpenGL CPU Driver/Governor Scaling

Tesseract is a game that does tend to be impacted much more by changes in the CPU scaling driver/governor than other games. With the performance governor, P-State and CPUFreq do the best but again with any of the configurations on modest hardware you would still have playable frame-rates.


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