Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Performance Improves With Linux 6.9

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 29 April 2024 at 11:03 AM EDT. Page 5 of 5. 1 Comment.
Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, Linux 6.9 Intel Meteor Lake. Linux 6.9 26 Apr was the fastest.

Across 69 benchmarks run, the Linux 6.9 Git kernel was about 2.6% faster overall. It largely comes down to specific workloads where the Linux 6.9 kernel benefited the most like code compilation, some gaming/graphics, etc.

CPU Power Consumption Monitor benchmark with settings of Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring.

Across the entire span of benchmarks run, the overall CPU SoC power consumption was fairly similar to Linux 6.8 except for some multi-threaded workloads it ended up being several Watts higher.

CPU Peak Freq (Highest CPU Core Frequency) Monitor benchmark with settings of Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring.

The CPU peak frequency during benchmarking overall wasn't affected much with the Linux 6.9 upgrade.

CPU Temperature Monitor benchmark with settings of Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring.

And a look at the Core Ultra 7 155H's core temperature over the span of all the benchmarks.

Intel Meteor Lake performance with Linux 6.9 is increasing but for some workloads may show higher power use due to the Intel P-State tuning. Overall though the Intel Meteor Lake open-source Linux support continues moving in the right direction.

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