AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default

Making for an exciting Monday morning, AMD Linux engineers have kicked off the new week with a patch series introducing an exciting and long-awaited change: using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver by default for EPYC server platforms moving forward rather than the ACPI CPUFreq driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-EPYC-Linux-Patches

[geerge]

yet another success by AMD. Intel's pet troll dumbisticles on life support.

But if life support runs on winblows and intel, dumbisticles is in big trouble

I mean, intel will pull back eventually. Hopefully. 18A is the decider. This gen being more efficient is a necessary step, it was never going to be snap your fingers intel recovers from a decade of stagnation, shit takes time.

[intelfx]

maybe it will maybe it won't

I hope it will. Competition is always good. Otherwise next decade’s AMD will be the last decade’s Intel

[schmidtbag]

Intel has a chance to catch up. AMD still is a firmly better option for servers but Intel has been narrowing the gap substantially.