AMD Renoir On Linux Could Soon See Lower Power Consumption During Video Playback

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Renoir On Linux Could Soon See Lower Power Consumption During Video Playback

It looks like for Linux 5.11 there could be lower power usage during video playback on DCN 2.1 hardware, namely AMD Renoir...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-DCN21-ODM-MPO-Video-Power

[Slartifartblast]

That's for those lucky enough to get hold of Renoir, rare as rocking horse dung at the moment.

NB I do own an Renoir Ideapad 5 14 and grabbed it while you could still customise it.

[caligula]

That's for those lucky enough to get hold of Renoir, rare as rocking horse dung at the moment.

It's almost the same if you'd like to buy Nvidia GTX 3080, and some time ago some recent Intel chips.

[Slartifartblast]

It's almost the same if you'd like to buy Nvidia GTX 3080, and some time ago some recent Intel chips.

Renoir was released in March, the GTX 3080 was only released in September.

[caligula]

Renoir was released in March, the GTX 3080 was only released in September.

The Renoir desktop parts were released in July https://www.anandtech.com/show/15921...-cant-buy-them

[Slartifartblast]

The Renoir desktop parts were released in July https://www.anandtech.com/show/15921...-cant-buy-them

Considering I was talking about an Ideapad 5 it's fairly safe to assume that I was referring to the laptop CPUs. In fact my memory failed me, Renoir laptop CPUs were actually launched in January https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/cores/renoir