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

Xonotic's frame-rates only pulled back when using CPUFreq powersave/conservative.

The same goes for Unigine Heaven.

Here's a look at the meta performance per Watt for the OpenGL games tested. CPUFreq performance came out slightly ahead but generally with the Core i7 7700K with this Ubuntu 16.10 configuration tested, P-State powersave and performance were close most of the time. The CPUFreq powersave and conservative governors is what was consistently leading to lower performance.

A look at the CPU and GPU usage during these OpenGL Linux gaming benchmarks.

Lastly, a look at the overall system power consumption over the duration of all the OpenGL game benchmarks executed. Next we're moving onto the Vulkan gaming results.