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Linux 6.5 With AMD P-State EPP Default Brings Performance & Power Efficiency Benefits For Ryzen Servers   Software   2023-09-21
Linux 6.5+ Bringing Some Performance/Efficiency Improvements For The AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme / ASUS ROG Ally   Software   2023-09-08
Ryzen 9 7950X Performance With The New AMD P-State Default Of Linux 6.5   Software   2023-08-24
Ryzen Mobile Power/Performance With Linux 6.3's New AMD P-State EPP Driver   Software   2023-04-12
AMD P-State EPP Performance With EPYC On Linux 6.3   Software   2023-04-03
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X P-State/CPUFreq Frequency Scaling Performance On Linux   Software   2022-10-10
AMD Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. AMD P-State Linux Testing   Software   2022-10-03
Apple M2 vs. AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U Performance In Nearly 200 Benchmarks   Computers   2022-08-19
AMD P-State vs. ACPI CPUFreq Testing With Ryzen Laptops On Linux 5.17   Software   2022-04-11
An Early Look At The AMD P-State CPPC Driver Performance vs. ACPI CPUFreq   Software   2021-09-22
Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 P-State CPU Frequency Scaling Comparison   Software   2021-06-07
Linux's P-State Performance Governor Shows Unexpectedly Big Boosts For The Intel Core i9-11900K   Processors   2021-04-22
AMD Ryzen, EPYC 5~6% Faster Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 5.11   Software   2021-02-12
After A Bumpy Cycle, AMD Performance Will Shine Brighter On Linux 5.11   Software   2021-02-05
Linux 5.11 Is Regressing Hard For AMD Performance With Schedutil   Software   2020-12-25
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT CPUFreq Governor Comparison With Linux 5.9   Software   2020-09-24
Initial Benchmarks Of Schedutil Performance On Linux 5.7 Show Room Still For Improvement   Software   2020-04-17
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Linux CPU Frequency Scaling Governor Benchmarks   Software   2019-09-04
Intel P-State vs. CPUFreq Frequency Scaling Performance On The Linux 5.0 Kernel   Software   2019-03-12
The Impact Of The CPU Frequency Scaling Governor On AMD Threadripper 2990WX Linux Performance   Software   2018-08-21
P-State/CPUFreq CPU Frequency Scaling Tests For Radeon/NVIDIA Gaming With Linux 4.16   Linux Gaming   2018-04-17
Radeon+Ryzen CPUFreq CPU Scaling Governor Benchmarks On Linux 4.15   Linux Gaming   2018-01-07
Ryzen 7 CPUFreq Governor Comparison For Linux Gaming On 4.12   Software   2017-06-28
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Linux Game CPU Core Scaling   Linux Gaming   2017-06-26
P-State/CPUFreq Governor Tests With Linux 4.12 For OpenGL/Vulkan Games   Linux Gaming   2017-06-26
CPUFreq vs. P-State CPU Scaling Governor Tests On Various Vulkan/OpenGL Games   Linux Gaming   2017-04-04
CPUFreq Governor Tuning For Better AMD Ryzen Linux Performance   Processors   2017-03-06
Kaby Lake On Linux Plays Much Better With CPUFreq Than P-State   Processors   2017-01-11
Linux 4.8 Intel P-State vs. CPUFreq Scaling Driver/Governor Benchmarks   Software   2016-08-25
Linux 4.7 CPUFreq Schedutil Testing vs. P-State   Software   2016-05-21
Intel Skylake Performing Better With CPUFreq Than P-State For Linux Gaming   Software   2015-10-16
Intel P-State / CPUFreq CPU Scaling For Linux Gaming On Ubuntu 15.04   Software   2015-08-15
Intel P-State vs. CPUFreq Benchmarks On The i7-5960X   Software   2014-09-18
Ondemand vs. Performance CPU Governing For AMD FX CPUs On Linux 3.17   Processors   2014-09-02
CPUFreq Scaling Tests With AMD's Kaveri On Linux 3.16   Software   2014-08-15
ACPI CPUfreq vs. Intel P-State Scaling With Linux 3.15   Software   2014-05-17
AMD's Radeon Gallium3D Starts Posing A Threat To Catalyst   Display Drivers   2013-10-30
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARMv7 Linux Performance Gains   Operating Systems   2012-05-07

CPUfreq Linux & Open-Source News

AMD P-State Preferred Core Submitted For Linux 6.9 While Intel Meteor Lake Gets Tuned   AMD   2024-03-11
Linux 6.9 To Allow AMD P-State With ACPI CPPC V2 For Threadripper 3000 Series CPUs   AMD   2024-03-10
Linux 6.8 Merges Fix For Recent Performance Regression Spotted By Linus Torvalds   Linux Kernel   2024-01-18
Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Will Be Able To Clock Higher On Linux 6.8   Intel   2024-01-16
A Fix For The Severe Linux Performance Regression Spotted By Torvalds   Linux Kernel   2024-01-14
Linus Torvalds Hits Nasty Performance Regression With Early Linux 6.8 Code   Linux Kernel   2024-01-10
Zhaoxin Preparing Preferred Core Support For Their CPUs On Linux   Hardware   2023-12-28
Xen 4.18 Hypervisor Released With Support For New AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPU Features   Virtualization   2023-11-22
Linux 6.7 Adds Support For Intel Meteor Lake Workload Type Hints   Intel   2023-11-01
9-Way AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / Ubuntu 23.10   AMD   2023-10-27
Linux 6.6 Allowing Per-Policy CPUFreq Performance Boost Control   Linux Kernel   2023-09-10
AMD P-State Fixes & Other Power Management Changes For Linux 6.6   Hardware   2023-09-04
Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights   Phoronix   2023-09-01
Linux 6.5 Released With AMD P-State EPP Default, USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 & More Hardware Bits   Linux Kernel   2023-08-27
Linux 6.5 Ready To Ship With Initial USB4 v2, More WiFi 7, AMD P-State EPP Default & More   Linux Kernel   2023-08-26
Linux 6.6's cpupower Utility Enables New AMD P-State Features   AMD   2023-08-01
Per-Policy CPU Performance Boosting Proposed For Linux   Hardware   2023-07-25
Linux 6.5 Now Defaults To AMD P-State "Active" EPP For Modern Ryzen Systems   Linux Kernel   2023-06-27
Silly Open-Source Moves, AMD openSIL & Rust Happenings Made For An Interesting Month   Phoronix   2023-04-30
Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini   Apple   2023-04-06
Google Posts KVM-CPUFreq Driver To Dramatically Boost VM Performance, Power Efficiency   Virtualization   2023-03-31
Linux 6.4 Preparing DRM Deadline Hints To Help Influence GPU Frequency/Performance   Linux Kernel   2023-03-26
AMD P-State Guided Autonomous Mode Coming For Linux 6.4   AMD   2023-03-18
Linux 6.3 Scheduler Updates Bring Fixes & Minor Optimizations   Linux Kernel   2023-02-24
AMD P-State EPP Submitted For Linux 6.3 To Improve CPU Performance/Power   AMD   2023-02-16
AMD Updates P-State "Guided Autonomous Mode" Support For Linux   AMD   2023-01-13
AMD Continued Its Great Linux Embrace In 2022 With Better Launch-Day Support + Optimizations   AMD   2022-12-31
AMD Zen 4, Apple Silicon, Intel Arc Graphics & More Excited Linux Users This Year   Phoronix   2022-12-30
AMD Posts P-State EPP v9 Driver That Aims To Be Ready For Linux 6.3   AMD   2022-12-26
AMD P-State EPP Patches Spun An 8th Time For Helping Out Linux Performance & Efficiency   AMD   2022-12-19
Linux 6.2 Will Help With Power Savings For Intel Alder Lake N & Raptor Lake P   Intel   2022-12-15
AMD P-State EPP Won't Be Ready Until Linux 6.3   AMD   2022-12-12
The Many New Features On The Horizon For Linux 6.2   Linux Kernel   2022-12-09
AMD Posts P-State Linux Patches For New "Guided Autonomous Mode"   AMD   2022-12-07
Apple Silicon CPUFreq Driver Heading To Linux 6.2   Apple   2022-12-07
Apple SoC CPUFreq Linux Driver Moves Closer To Mainline   Apple   2022-11-29
Linux 6.1-rc7 Released Following A Busy Thanksgiving Week   Linux Kernel   2022-11-27
Linux 6.1-rc7 Makes It Easier To Manage The AMD P-State Driver   AMD   2022-11-27
New Patches Allow More Easily Managing The AMD P-State Linux Driver   AMD   2022-11-20
AMD P-State EPP Driver Updated For More Power/Performance Control On Linux   AMD   2022-11-11
Deferred Enabling Of ACPI CPUFreq Boost Support Can Help Boot Times For Large Servers   Linux Kernel   2022-11-03
Arc Graphics, Google KataOS, Python 3.11 & Linux 6.1 Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts   Phoronix   2022-11-01
Intel P-State Driver Seeing More Fixes For Hybrid CPUs With Linux 6.2   Intel   2022-10-27
Apple CPUFreq Driver Updated For Linux - Initial M2 Support Added   Linux Kernel   2022-10-24
AMD P-State EPP Driver Updated For Improving Linux Power Efficiency   AMD   2022-10-09
AMD Posts "P-State EPP" Driver As New Attempt To Improve Performance-Per-Watt On Linux   AMD   2022-09-09
Open-Source Arc Graphics, Apple M2, Mesa GPU Drivers & Linux 6.0 Excited Readers In August   Phoronix   2022-08-31
AMD P-State Patches Updated But Miss The Linux 6.0 Merge Window   AMD   2022-08-15
AMD Radeon 680M Graphics Benchmarks Across Various Linux Kernel, Mesa Versions   Radeon   2022-08-13
Linux 6.0 Fixes Broken Keyboards On Ryzen 6000 Laptops, Power Management Additions   Hardware   2022-08-07
AMD P-State Linux Driver Updated With Precision Boost Control, Other Fixes   AMD   2022-07-07
MediaTek MT8186 Display Support, Other SoC Enablement Coming To Linux 5.19   Linux Kernel   2022-05-05
Rewritten Apple Silicon CPUFreq Driver Posted For Linux   Apple   2022-05-04
Linux NTFS, Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Mesa 22.1 & Other April Open-Source Excitement   Phoronix   2022-05-01
Linux 5.18 Power Management Brings Improvements For Both Intel & AMD   Linux Kernel   2022-03-28
AMD Making It Easier To Switch To Their New P-State CPU Frequency Scaling Driver   AMD   2022-03-25
How To Use The New AMD P-State Driver With Linux 5.17   AMD   2022-03-22
Linux 5.17 Released With AMD P-State Driver, Plenty Of New Hardware Support   Linux Kernel   2022-03-20
AMD P-State Tracer Tool To Be Included With Linux 5.18   AMD   2022-03-13
The Most Interesting New Features Of Linux 5.17 - Intel & AMD Continue With Big Changes   Linux Kernel   2022-03-10
Linux On The Apple M1 Preparing Better Performance With In-Development CPUFreq Driver   Apple   2022-02-16
AMD P-State Support Coming For The CPUPower Tool   AMD   2022-02-16
Linux 5.17 Is Bringing Big Improvements For AMD Hardware   AMD   2022-01-24
New AMD P-State Driver Headlines The Power Management Updates For Linux 5.17   Linux Kernel   2022-01-11
Linux 5.17 To Bring AMD P-State, Many AMD & Intel Improvements, New Optimizations   Linux Kernel   2022-01-08
AMD P-State Driver To Premiere In Linux 5.17 With Aim To Deliver Better Power Efficiency   AMD   2022-01-05
The Most Exciting AMD Linux / Open-Source News Of 2021   AMD   2021-12-29
Phoronix Test Suite 10.8 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-12-26
AMD P-State v7 Driver Posted For Delivering Better Ryzen Efficiency In 2022   AMD   2021-12-25
Linux 5.17 Will Have An Important Intel P-State Update For Alder Lake Mobile CPUs   Intel   2021-12-22
AMD P-State CPU Frequency Control Driver Revised A 6th Time   AMD   2021-12-19
AMD-Pstate Driver Updated A 5th Time For Improving Ryzen Power Efficiency On Linux   AMD   2021-11-30
Updated AMD P-State Driver Posted For Improving Linux Power Efficiency   AMD   2021-11-19
More Linux Performance Benchmark Data For Alder Lake, Comparison Data Points   Intel   2021-11-04
Linux 5.16's Smorgasbord Of Power Management Changes Land   Hardware   2021-11-04
Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month   Phoronix   2021-10-01
Updated AMD P-State Driver Published For Linux   AMD   2021-09-26
AMD + Valve Focusing On P-State / CPPC Driver With Schedutil For Better Linux Efficiency   AMD   2021-09-18
AMD Posts New "AMD-PSTATE" CPUFreq Driver Leveraging CPPC For Better Perf-Per-Watt   AMD   2021-09-09
AMD + Valve Working On New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design   AMD   2021-08-02
The Most Popular Intel Linux/Open-Source News From H1'2021   Intel   2021-07-08
ACPI CPPC CPUFreq Will Try Frequency Invariance Again For Linux 5.14   Arm   2021-07-08
Arm Proposes ASF As Their Framework Building Off Linux's CPUFreq + CPUIdle   Arm   2021-07-07
AMD Is Hiring More Linux Engineers For The Scheduler, Memory Management, Net I/O   AMD   2021-06-07
Linux 5.13 Power Management Updates Submitted   Hardware   2021-04-26
Linux 5.10.20 Released - Fixes The Erroneous Record-Breaking AMD Clock Frequencies   Linux Kernel   2021-03-04
helloSystem, System76 Keyboard + Linux 5.11/5.12 Captivated Users In February   Phoronix   2021-03-01
Linux 5.10.17 Backports CPUFreq Patches From 5.11 - Benchmarks   Linux Kernel   2021-02-18
Dynamic Preemption Support Sent In For The Linux 5.12 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2021-02-17
Linux 5.12 Bringing DTPM So You Don't Burn Yourself On Hot Devices   Hardware   2021-02-16
Linux 5.11 Released With Intel Integer Scaling, AMD Performance Boost, RTX 30 KMS   Linux Kernel   2021-02-14
The AMD Zen 2 / Zen 3 Performance Fix For Linux 5.11 Has Landed   Linux Kernel   2021-02-10
Linux 5.11-rc7 Arrives - Time For The Weekly Celebration Testing The New Kernel   Linux Kernel   2021-02-07
AMD Regression On Linux 5.11 Being Addressed By New CPUFreq Patches   AMD   2021-02-04
Linux 5.11 Is Looking Like A Wild And Bumpy Ride On AMD CPUs So Far   AMD   2020-12-24
Linux 5.11 Intel P-State Schedutil Tuned For Better Efficiency. Avoid Running "Too Fast"   Intel   2020-12-23
Intel Workload Hints, Zen RAPL PowerCap + Other Power/Thermal Changes For Linux 5.11   Linux Kernel   2020-12-18
AMD Frequency Invariance Support Comes With Linux 5.11   AMD   2020-12-16
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 Milestone 2 Brings More Testing Enhancements   Phoronix Test Suite   2020-12-06
AMD+SUSE Tackling Frequency Invariance For AMD EPYC 7002 CPUs   AMD   2020-11-25
AMD Renoir Running Smooth On Linux 5.10   AMD   2020-11-10
Linux Gets Fix For AMD Zen 3 CPU Frequency Handling Stemming From 8 Year Old Workaround   AMD   2020-10-24
AMD Laptops With Radeon dGPU Graphics Receive Fix For Poor Linux Power Management   Hardware   2020-10-14
Linux Could Soon Have A New Knob For Toggling Performance/Power-Profile For Laptops   Hardware   2020-10-05
Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September   Phoronix   2020-10-01
Linux 5.9-rc4 Kernel Released   Linux Kernel   2020-09-06
Intel P-State With Linux 5.9 Adds Passive Mode With Hardware P-States   Intel   2020-08-15
ARM Now Defaulting To Schedutil Governor, Other Power Management Work For Linux 5.9   Hardware   2020-08-07
More Accurate Load Tracking Being Worked On For the ACPI CPPC CPUFreq Driver   Linux Kernel   2020-07-10
Linux 5.8 Brings Boost Support To CPPC CPUFreq Driver   Hardware   2020-06-10
Linux 5.8 Sees Many Power Management Updates, Including Another Intel P-State Change   Linux Kernel   2020-06-02
Software Boosting Patches Volleyed For CPPC CPUFreq Driver (Boost / Turbo Frequency)   Hardware   2020-05-08
AMD SPI SoC Linux Driver Appears Ready For Mainline In Linux 5.8   AMD   2020-04-27
Intel P-State Driver Preparing To Default To Passive Mode For More Systems   Intel   2020-04-19
Seven Changes We've Been Waiting On That You Will Not Find In Linux 5.7   Linux Kernel   2020-04-16
Intel P-State Driver Shifting To "Schedutil" Governor Default With Linux 5.7   Intel   2020-04-06
Intel P-State Driver Preparing To Migrate From "Powersave" To Passive Schedutil Default   Intel   2020-03-18
Noctua NH-U9S Performance For The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X + Ondemand vs. Performance Governors   AMD   2020-02-10
Linux 5.6 Adds New CPU Cooling Mechanism With Generic Idle Cooling Driver   Hardware   2020-02-01
Power Management + ACPI Updates Submitted For The Linux 5.6 Kernel   Hardware   2020-01-28
Intel iGPU Linux Gamers May Be Better Off With The "Powersave" Governor   Linux Gaming   2019-12-18
Intel Comet Lake Added To RAPL Driver With Linux 5.5, New "HMEM" Driver   Hardware   2019-11-28
Significant Performance & Perf-Per-Watt Gains Coming For Intel CPUs On Linux Schedutil   Intel   2019-10-01
Linux 5.4 Power Management Updates Sent In But Without AMD CPPC Changes   Hardware   2019-09-18
Eventually "Schedutil" Could Replace Linux's Existing CPU Scaling Governors   Linux Kernel   2019-09-04
PowerTop, AMD CPUFreq CPPC & Other Power Tests From The Ryzen 9 3900X On Linux   AMD   2019-09-03
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Power Usage Is Running Measurably Higher On Linux Than Windows   AMD   2019-08-30
Linux 5.2/5.3 Kernel Performance On The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X   AMD   2019-07-27
AMD Posts New CPUFreq Driver For CPPC Support With Zen 2 CPUs   AMD   2019-07-10
Raspberry Pi CPUFreq Driver & Other Power Management Work For Linux 5.3   Hardware   2019-07-10
Raspberry Pi Close To Seeing CPUFreq Support   Arm   2019-05-21
Stadia, Web Browsers, GNOME 3.32 & Jetson Nano Dominated Linux Interest In March   Phoronix   2019-04-01
Power Management Updates Submitted For Linux 5.1, Including ACPI 6.3 Support   Linux Kernel   2019-03-04
The Latest Happenings With Feral's GameMode For Optimized Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2019-01-28
Power Management Changes Prepped For Linux 4.21 With New Qualcomm CPUFreq Driver   Linux Kernel   2018-12-22
The "Chinese EPYC" Hygon Dhyana CPU Support Still Getting Squared Away For Linux   AMD   2018-09-23
Power Management Updates Land In The Linux 4.19 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-08-14
Patches Revised For AMD Zen Based Hygon Dhyana Server CPUs   Hardware   2018-08-11
Benchmarks Of The Liquorix Linux 4.17 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-07-03
Linux 4.18's Latest Improvements For Power Management, CPUFreq   Linux Kernel   2018-06-04
Schedutil CPU Frequency Scaling Governor Improvements Coming To Linux 4.18   Linux Kernel   2018-05-23
Ryzen 7 2700X CPUFreq Scaling Governor Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux   AMD   2018-04-22
A Quick Look At Feral GameMode / P-State Powersave vs. Performance   Linux Gaming   2018-04-10
The Big Changes Merged This Week For The Linux 4.17 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-04-08
The New ACPI TAD Driver & CPUFreq Improvements Ready For Linux 4.17 Kernel   Hardware   2018-04-02
New P-State Patches Could Boost Intel Graphics Performance Under Some Conditions   Intel   2018-03-28
Skylake X Servers On Linux 4.16 Will Have P-State CPU Frequency Scaling Support   Intel   2018-01-21
ACPI & Power Management Updates For Linux 4.15   Intel   2017-11-14
Linux 4.14 Ensures The "Core Performance Boost" Bit Gets Set For AMD Ryzen CPUs   AMD   2017-10-17
P-State Continues Evolving, More Power Management Changes For Linux 4.14   Hardware   2017-09-05