Fedora 21 CPU Scaling Governor
Fedora 21 CPU scaling governor benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.


P-State Powersave: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.80GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.18.0-0.rc3.git2.2.fc22.1.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.1.5, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20141101 + LLVM 3.4.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

P-State Performance: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.80GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.18.0-0.rc3.git2.2.fc22.1.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.1.5, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20141101 + LLVM 3.4.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

CPUFreq Ondemand: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.20GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.18.0-0.rc3.git2.2.fc22.1.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.1.5, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20141101 + LLVM 3.4.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

CPUFreq Performance: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.20GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.18.0-0.rc3.git2.2.fc22.1.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.1.5, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20141101 + LLVM 3.4.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

CPUFreq Conservative: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.20GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.18.0-0.rc3.git2.2.fc22.1.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.1.5, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20141101 + LLVM 3.4.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave .... 101.93 |================================================
P-State Performance .. 101.57 |================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 101.60 |================================================
CPUFreq Performance .. 101.87 |================================================
CPUFreq Conservative . 101.67 |================================================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave .... 92.46 |=================================================
P-State Performance .. 92.59 |=================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 92.22 |=================================================
CPUFreq Performance .. 92.56 |=================================================
CPUFreq Conservative . 92.35 |=================================================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave .... 31.19 |============================================
P-State Performance .. 34.83 |=================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 34.48 |=================================================
CPUFreq Performance .. 34.60 |=================================================
CPUFreq Conservative . 32.28 |=============================================


Xonotic 0.7
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave .... 27.29 |================================================
P-State Performance .. 27.80 |=================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 26.47 |===============================================
CPUFreq Performance .. 27.05 |================================================
CPUFreq Conservative . 25.15 |============================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
P-State Powersave .... 85.29 |=================================================
P-State Performance .. 83.63 |================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 42.02 |========================
CPUFreq Performance .. 78.89 |=============================================
CPUFreq Conservative . 41.03 |========================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
P-State Powersave .... 9.57 |==================================================
P-State Performance .. 9.47 |=================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 8.55 |=============================================
CPUFreq Performance .. 9.59 |==================================================
CPUFreq Conservative . 8.53 |============================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
P-State Powersave .... 3.97 |==================================================
P-State Performance .. 3.78 |================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 3.85 |================================================
CPUFreq Performance .. 3.79 |================================================
CPUFreq Conservative . 3.81 |================================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
P-State Powersave .... 10.45 |=================================================
P-State Performance .. 10.32 |================================================
CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 10.32 |================================================
CPUFreq Performance .. 10.31 |================================================
CPUFreq Conservative . 10.33 |================================================


FFmpeg 2.1.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
P-State Powersave .... 20.81 |========================================
P-State Performance .. 11.49 |======================
CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 17.27 |=================================
CPUFreq Performance .. 11.34 |======================
CPUFreq Conservative . 25.75 |=================================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
P-State Powersave .... 15294.13 |============================================
P-State Performance .. 15361.85 |=============================================
CPUFreq Ondemand ..... 15192.33 |============================================
CPUFreq Performance .. 14853.49 |===========================================
CPUFreq Conservative . 15875.24 |==============================================