CPUFreq Governor Tuning For Better AMD Ryzen Linux Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 6 March 2017 at 02:00 PM EST. Page 3 of 6. 68 Comments.
Ryzen CPU Governor Tests

With the Tesseract game was one of the few instances where the CPUfreq governor made a noticeable difference in the performance between the five tested governors. The performance governor did the best followed by schedutil and then ondemand.

Ryzen CPU Governor Tests
Ryzen CPU Governor Tests

But when it comes to performance-per-Watt, it's a toss-up between ondemand/schedutil/conservative.

Ryzen CPU Governor Tests

When using the powersave governor, it was noticeably slower than the other governors.

Ryzen CPU Governor Tests

The powersave governor was also much slower than the others for LAME MP3 encoding.


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