g Intel Core i7-8700K testing with a Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 (F6 BIOS) and inteldrmfb on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. governor performance: Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K @ 5.00GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 (F6 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 3ec2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB Western Digital WDS512G1X0C-00ENX0, Graphics: inteldrmfb (1200MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL U2412M, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 gov perf 2: Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K @ 5.00GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 (F6 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 3ec2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB Western Digital WDS512G1X0C-00ENX0, Graphics: inteldrmfb (1200MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL U2412M, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better governor performance . 7.47 |================================================== gov perf 2 ........... 7.50 |==================================================