AMD FX-9590 CPU Governors Ubuntu

Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Testing ondemand vs. performance with CPUFreq for the AMD FX CPU on Linux 3.17.

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AMD FX-9590 CPU Governors Ubuntu Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Testing ondemand vs. performance with CPUFreq for the AMD FX CPU on Linux 3.17. CPUFreq Ondemand: Processor: AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core @ 4.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Killer, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-6cd0dbc 2014-08-29 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 CPUFreq Performance: Processor: AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core @ 4.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Killer, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB, Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.17.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel (git-6cd0dbc 2014-08-29 trusty-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Watts CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 99 AVG: 211 MAX: 385 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 114 AVG: 225 MAX: 389 CPU Temperature Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Celsius CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 1.5 AVG: 29.8 MAX: 52.4 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 2.6 AVG: 31.6 MAX: 49.9 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 100 AVG: 144 MAX: 172 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 116 AVG: 169 MAX: 181 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 31.0 MAX: 35.5 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 6.6 AVG: 34.2 MAX: 39.8 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... 16.53 |================================================== CPUFreq Performance . 16.49 |================================================== C-Ray 1.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 101 AVG: 253 MAX: 385 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 121 AVG: 256 MAX: 389 C-Ray 1.1 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 9.5 AVG: 35.3 MAX: 40.9 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 7.0 AVG: 31.5 MAX: 40.6 C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... 22.70 |================================================= CPUFreq Performance . 23.33 |================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 101 AVG: 288 MAX: 383 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 122 AVG: 288 MAX: 380 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 6.6 AVG: 43.9 MAX: 52.4 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 7.0 AVG: 43.4 MAX: 49.9 Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... 82.66 |================================================= CPUFreq Performance . 85.13 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 102 AVG: 202 MAX: 219 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 116 AVG: 200 MAX: 222 GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 5.5 AVG: 40.2 MAX: 46.3 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 5.8 AVG: 39.9 MAX: 46.0 GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... 190 |==================================================== CPUFreq Performance . 190 |==================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 116 AVG: 200 MAX: 213 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 118 AVG: 198 MAX: 218 GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 7.1 AVG: 39.5 MAX: 43.3 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 6.5 AVG: 40.8 MAX: 45.5 GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... 158 |==================================================== CPUFreq Performance . 158 |==================================================== Dolfyn 0.527 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 99 AVG: 167 MAX: 180 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 118 AVG: 176 MAX: 190 Dolfyn 0.527 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 4.5 AVG: 33.5 MAX: 38.3 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 5.4 AVG: 36.3 MAX: 40.4 Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... 31.66 |================================================== CPUFreq Performance . 31.55 |================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 99 AVG: 158 MAX: 306 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 119 AVG: 213 MAX: 308 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 5.5 AVG: 19.8 MAX: 28.0 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 6.1 AVG: 17.8 MAX: 26.5 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... 5087.47 |================================================ CPUFreq Performance . 5076.95 |================================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 102 AVG: 311 MAX: 353 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 120 AVG: 321 MAX: 359 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 8.0 AVG: 38.9 MAX: 45.4 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 8.4 AVG: 39.0 MAX: 46.8 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... 227.30 |================================================= CPUFreq Performance . 228.23 |================================================= Xonotic 0.7 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 100 AVG: 229 MAX: 257 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 120 AVG: 254 MAX: 302 Xonotic 0.7 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 3.1 AVG: 21.4 MAX: 38.0 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 4.5 AVG: 24.6 MAX: 33.0 Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... 127.40 |========================================= CPUFreq Performance . 154.04 |================================================= Xonotic 0.7 System Power Consumption Monitor Watts < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 100 AVG: 221 MAX: 256 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 121 AVG: 251 MAX: 323 Xonotic 0.7 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 3.3 AVG: 20.9 MAX: 30.9 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 4.8 AVG: 27.3 MAX: 39.3 Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better CPUFreq Ondemand .... 153.80 |======================================= CPUFreq Performance . 194.46 |=================================================