A Quick Look At Feral GameMode / P-State Powersave vs. Performance

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Quick Look At Feral GameMode / P-State Powersave vs. Performance

With today's release of the Feral GameMode library/daemon of course I am running some benchmarks... Here is some initial numbers while this has spurred some fresh benchmarks looking at the P-State vs. CPUFreq performance and their respective frequency scaling governor options...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GameMode-Initial-Look

[fagnerln]

You should test it in the lowest setting and resolution to see the CPU bottleneck

[shanefagan]

I'd say it would be more interesting to see this without a top of the line CPU. Like going down to a last gen value CPU. The reason why it looks like this didn't change anything is because the CPU is blasting through the work without needing to throttle up which is where you would see this change more dramatic fluctuations