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    Phoronix: AMD APUs Don't Appear Affected By Linux 3.12 Change

    Earlier today in The AMD Radeon Performance Is Incredible On Linux 3.12, ten different AMD Radeon graphics cards were tested to complement the original Linux 3.12 Brings Big AMD Radeon Improvements article from Saturday. In changing things up from looking at the discrete AMD GPU performance, here are some benchmarks of an AMD Fusion E-350 APU with the Linux 3.11 and 3.12 kernels...

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    Originally posted by phoronix View Post
    Phoronix: AMD APUs Don't Appear Affected By Linux 3.12 Change

    Earlier today in The AMD Radeon Performance Is Incredible On Linux 3.12, ten different AMD Radeon graphics cards were tested to complement the original Linux 3.12 Brings Big AMD Radeon Improvements article from Saturday. In changing things up from looking at the discrete AMD GPU performance, here are some benchmarks of an AMD Fusion E-350 APU with the Linux 3.11 and 3.12 kernels...

    http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQ4NTg
    So it looks like my wild guess is correct. Probably last changes indeed improved governor for intel CPUs... Therefore there is no change with AMD's APUs.

    By the way, Michael, did you force dpm for APUs? Otherwise this test is meaningless since they are already operating at minimum frequencies.

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    • #3
      That mimics the other result in that lower-end GPUs seem to be less affected.

      Have you followed up on the suggestions about GART sizes and/or CPU scaling governors yet?

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      • #4
        Who cares for E-350 when there is Kabini already?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by phoronix View Post
          Phoronix: AMD APUs Don't Appear Affected By Linux 3.12 Change

          Earlier today in The AMD Radeon Performance Is Incredible On Linux 3.12, ten different AMD Radeon graphics cards were tested to complement the original Linux 3.12 Brings Big AMD Radeon Improvements article from Saturday. In changing things up from looking at the discrete AMD GPU performance, here are some benchmarks of an AMD Fusion E-350 APU with the Linux 3.11 and 3.12 kernels...

          http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQ4NTg
          Ummm...Michael, I don't mean to be a dick (i really don't) but I only got one question for ya... did you enable DPM for these? The discrete cards don't need it to function 'okay' but the APU's default to BIOS clock speeds which are pitiful and then the GPU clockspeeds become the bottleneck. So if you didn't enable DPM then this is an entirely pointless article because you introduced a different bottleneck...

          Now, if you DID enable DPM, then okay, great, this is more data to figure out what exactly is going on.
          All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by sacridex View Post
            Who cares for E-350 when there is Kabini already?
            E-350, E-450 and friends run a lot better than Kabini with the free driver. If you manage to install Linux into a Kabini machine, you'll find yourself restricted to Catalyst (the graphics unit seems to be a SI one).

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            • #7
              @sacridex
              Phoronix doesn't receive any review samples as the article says. And Michael seems to be unwilling or unable to cooperate with hardware sites that do, so has to pay for the hardware out of his own pocket.

              Currently you can buy Kabini only in Notebooks which will set you back at least 340 EUR (Thinkpad E145 with E1-2500 dual core CPU), this does not promise good ROI especially if many users install Adblock.

              And Kabini is GCN, which is already known to perform poorly with the open source drivers.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Rakot View Post
                So it looks like my wild guess is correct. Probably last changes indeed improved governor for intel CPUs... Therefore there is no change with AMD's APUs.

                By the way, Michael, did you force dpm for APUs? Otherwise this test is meaningless since they are already operating at minimum frequencies.
                Eh, not quite. There's still a possibility that if Michael ran these tests on an AMD CPU system with the discrete cards that the performance benefits may still occur. But yes, DPM would have an impact on the results.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Alejandro Nova View Post
                  f you manage to install Linux into a Kabini machine, you'll find yourself restricted to Catalyst (the graphics unit seems to be a SI one).
                  We already have success reports from Kabini users (after solving initial configuration problems) on Gentoo with the radeon driver in our forums.


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                  • #10
                    That's a very low-end GPU/APU, though. Perhaps the changes arrived for some higher-end features, found in more higher-end cards.

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