AMDGPU CPU Scaling Governor AMDGPU tests on a Radeon R9 285 Tonga using P-State and CPUfreq scaling governors. Bechmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix. P-State Powersave: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-rc1amdgpu-pp+ (x86_64) 20160125, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.0.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 P-State Performance: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-rc1amdgpu-pp+ (x86_64) 20160125, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.0.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 CPUFreq Ondemand: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-rc1amdgpu-pp+ (x86_64) 20160125, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.0.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 CPUFreq Powersave: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-rc1amdgpu-pp+ (x86_64) 20160125, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.0.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 CPUFreq Performance: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.5.0-rc1amdgpu-pp+ (x86_64) 20160125, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.0.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 BioShock Infinite Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 19.58 |=============================================== P-State Performance . 20.96 |================================================== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 18.93 |============================================= CPUFreq Powersave ... 14.48 |=================================== CPUFreq Performance . 20.97 |================================================== Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 66.22 |================================================ P-State Performance . 68.73 |================================================== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 64.43 |=============================================== CPUFreq Powersave ... 49.78 |==================================== CPUFreq Performance . 68.87 |================================================== DiRT Showdown Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Graphics Preset: Ultra - Multi-Sampling: 8x MSAA Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 46.44 |============================================= P-State Performance . 51.44 |================================================== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 41.17 |======================================== CPUFreq Powersave ... 32.27 |=============================== CPUFreq Performance . 51.57 |================================================== Metro: Last Light Redux Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.0m4 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 21.27 |============================================= P-State Performance . 23.41 |================================================== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 20.94 |============================================= CPUFreq Powersave ... 16.46 |=================================== CPUFreq Performance . 20.98 |============================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 223.10 |============================================= P-State Performance . 245.20 |================================================= CPUFreq Ondemand .... 201.03 |======================================== CPUFreq Powersave ... 109.50 |====================== CPUFreq Performance . 244.73 |================================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better P-State Powersave ... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.7 MAX: 35.0 P-State Performance . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.1 MAX: 32.0 CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.9 MAX: 34.0 CPUFreq Powersave ... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 9.1 MAX: 82.0 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.1 MAX: 36.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 63.17 |================================================= P-State Performance . 65.05 |================================================== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 63.09 |================================================ CPUFreq Powersave ... 58.50 |============================================= CPUFreq Performance . 64.34 |================================================= Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 68.22 |======================================== P-State Performance . 85.57 |================================================== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 65.75 |====================================== CPUFreq Powersave ... 35.11 |===================== CPUFreq Performance . 84.96 |================================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1200 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 43.17 |================================================= P-State Performance . 43.75 |================================================== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 43.24 |================================================= CPUFreq Powersave ... 31.86 |==================================== CPUFreq Performance . 43.77 |================================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 293.92 |================================================ P-State Performance . 299.44 |================================================= CPUFreq Ondemand .... 300.16 |================================================= CPUFreq Powersave ... 113.48 |=================== CPUFreq Performance . 296.51 |================================================ Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 93.10 |=============================================== P-State Performance . 98.95 |================================================== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 86.86 |============================================ CPUFreq Powersave ... 60.67 |=============================== CPUFreq Performance . 98.83 |==================================================