AMD Linux Driver Seeing Support For New Fine Grain Clock Gating Ability

[elvenbone]

Will this mean there is finally proper power management for multi-monitor setups? Last time I checked graphics card reviews, idle power consumption of Radeon cards with two monitors attached was still 3 times the power consumption than with one monitor.

[andrei_me]

For those who follow AMD efforts (especially here in Phoronix) since when radeonSI was brand new, is awesome to FINALLY see the "stars align" for them ✌🏻

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Linux Driver Seeing Support For New Fine Grain Clock Gating Ability

AMD mentioned Fine-Grain Clock Gating as one of the new features for the Radeon RX 6000 series with "Big Navi" but it will also be present with the next-gen Van Gogh APU too. The Linux driver patches for bringing up FGCG are under review...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fine-Grain-Clock-Gating-AMDGPU