After A Bumpy Cycle, AMD Performance Will Shine Brighter On Linux 5.11

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 5 February 2021 at 05:00 PM EST. Page 2 of 5. 6 Comments.

Testing on the Ryzen 9 5900X also worked out well... Note: with the patched CPUFreq, the turbo frequency is now reported as the maximum clock frequency possible rather than just the base clock speed. Thus for the auto-generated tables like above, that is why the CPU clock speed will show up differently on Linux 5.11 and later while sticking to stock speeds and not over/under-clocking the system at all. At least this CPUFreq turbo reporting now matches the behavior of Intel CPUs on P-State long reporting the turbo frequency via the same interface.

In various gaming tests, the patched Linux 5.11 performance is not only recovered but often times slightly ahead of the Linux 5.10 stable performance.

The Ryzen 9 5900X on Linux 5.11 with the default Schedutil governor is looking much better than even the Linux 5.10 stable performance.

The Ryzen 9 5900X performance is coming out ahead; more benchmarks via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.


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