AMD Ryzen 9 7950X P-State/CPUFreq Frequency Scaling Performance On Linux

The Python start-up time was also slower when using amd-pstate schedutil compared to the other options.

The amd-pstate schedutil default also showed the worst gaming results with the open-source Unvanquished shooter title.

When it comes to performance-per-Watt, using the performance governor yielded the best bang in the gaming tests along with the acpi-cpufreq ondemand results.

When looking at the peak frequency metrics during the Unvanquished run, amd-pstate schedutil was at times clocking much lower than the other tested governor/driver combinations.

At least the Ryzen 9 7950X was operating the coolest with amd-pstate schedutil while running Unvanquished...

With the open-source game Tesseract, amd-pstate schedutil was the outlier compared to the other tested CPU frequency scaling configurations.

But still amd-pstate schedutil didn't yield any great power / efficiency results.