AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT CPUFreq Governor Comparison With Linux 5.9

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 24 September 2020 at 02:36 PM EDT. Page 2 of 5. 15 Comments.

Across a few Linux gaming tests ran, Schedutil still wasn't up to the performance of the "performance" governor but at least well ahead of the common distribution default of the ondemand governor and much better than CPUFreq powersave for this AMD Ryzen 9 desktop.

Meanwhile for workstation visualizations with ParaView the results were mixed for how much of an impact the governor made, but at least for some scenarios still using the "performance" choice paid off.


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