Skylake CPU Scaling P-State vs. CPUFreq i5-6500_compare P-State Powersave: Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151013, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 P-State Performance: Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151013, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 CPUFreq Performance: Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151013, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 CPUFreq Powersave: Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151013, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 CPUFreq Ondemand: Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170M-D3H-CF, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20151013, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 test_result: Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: American Megatrends 5.12, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 8192 MB + 4096 MB DDR4-2133MT/s, Disk: 128GB 2.5" SATA SSD 3M, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (1290/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC662 rev1, Monitor: HF237, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 390.48, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 49.50 |====== P-State Performance . 48.93 |====== CPUFreq Performance . 58.70 |======= CPUFreq Powersave ... 58.63 |======= CPUFreq Ondemand .... 58.67 |======= test_result ......... 385.67 |================================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better P-State Powersave ... MIN: 14.0 AVG: 20.1 MAX: 54.0 P-State Performance . MIN: 14.0 AVG: 20.1 MAX: 70.0 CPUFreq Performance . MIN: 13.0 AVG: 16.7 MAX: 52.0 CPUFreq Powersave ... MIN: 13.0 AVG: 16.6 MAX: 52.0 CPUFreq Ondemand .... MIN: 14.0 AVG: 16.8 MAX: 55.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 39.24 |======= P-State Performance . 39.03 |======= CPUFreq Performance . 41.10 |======== CPUFreq Powersave ... 41.52 |======== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 41.34 |======== test_result ......... 262.81 |================================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 50.53 |======= P-State Performance . 50.41 |======= CPUFreq Performance . 52.39 |======= CPUFreq Powersave ... 52.42 |======= CPUFreq Ondemand .... 52.45 |======= test_result ......... 368.68 |================================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 25.55 |==== P-State Performance . 25.61 |==== CPUFreq Performance . 26.67 |==== CPUFreq Powersave ... 26.70 |==== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 26.73 |==== test_result ......... 315.63 |================================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 21.13 |==== P-State Performance . 21.17 |==== CPUFreq Performance . 21.89 |==== CPUFreq Powersave ... 21.92 |==== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 21.94 |==== test_result ......... 272.74 |================================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 16.43 |==== P-State Performance . 16.45 |==== CPUFreq Performance . 16.87 |==== CPUFreq Powersave ... 16.86 |==== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 16.89 |==== test_result ......... 203.14 |================================================= x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better P-State Powersave ... 141.89 |================================================= P-State Performance . 142.50 |================================================= CPUFreq Performance . 140.90 |================================================ CPUFreq Powersave ... 140.00 |================================================ CPUFreq Ondemand .... 140.71 |================================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better P-State Powersave ... 127.77 |================================================= P-State Performance . 127.62 |================================================= CPUFreq Performance . 128.02 |================================================= CPUFreq Powersave ... 127.98 |================================================= CPUFreq Ondemand .... 128.18 |================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better P-State Powersave ... 23.41 |=========================================== P-State Performance . 23.41 |=========================================== CPUFreq Performance . 23.41 |=========================================== CPUFreq Powersave ... 23.42 |=========================================== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 23.41 |=========================================== test_result ......... 27.08 |================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better P-State Powersave ... 5.61 |================================================= P-State Performance . 5.62 |================================================= CPUFreq Performance . 5.63 |================================================= CPUFreq Powersave ... 5.61 |================================================= CPUFreq Ondemand .... 5.61 |================================================= test_result ......... 5.87 |=================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better P-State Powersave ... 12.06 |================================================== P-State Performance . 12.07 |================================================== CPUFreq Performance . 12.08 |================================================== CPUFreq Powersave ... 12.08 |================================================== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 12.06 |================================================== test_result ......... 10.19 |========================================== FFmpeg 2.6.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better P-State Powersave ... 9.92 |============================================ P-State Performance . 10.01 |============================================= CPUFreq Performance . 11.23 |================================================== CPUFreq Powersave ... 11.23 |================================================== CPUFreq Ondemand .... 11.22 |================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better test_result . 228.44 |========================================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better test_result . 65.55 |========================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better test_result . 44.75 |========================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better test_result . 112 |============================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better test_result . 1528.06 |======================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better test_result . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.6 MAX: 21.0