Linux 6.5+ Bringing Some Performance/Efficiency Improvements For The AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme / ASUS ROG Ally

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 8 September 2023 at 11:21 AM EDT. Page 5 of 6. 3 Comments.
Timed Godot Game Engine Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Linux 6.3.13 was the fastest.
Timed FFmpeg Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Linux 6.3.13 was the fastest.

I wasn't seeing much of an impact with the timed compilation workloads.

Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: BMW27, Compute: CPU-Only. Linux 6.5.1 was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: BMW27, Compute: CPU-Only. Linux 6.5.1 was the fastest.

Or other heavy workloads like Blender there wasn't any real difference observed.

OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Face Detection FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Linux 6.3.13 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Age Gender Recognition Retail 0013 FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Linux 6.3.13 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Person Detection FP16, Device: CPU. Linux 6.3.13 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Weld Porosity Detection FP16-INT8, Device: CPU. Linux 6.4.13 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Person Vehicle Bike Detection FP16, Device: CPU. Linux 6.4.13 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Machine Translation EN To DE FP16, Device: CPU. Linux 6.3.13 was the fastest.

One of the rare cases where the out-of-the-box performance regressed for the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme on Linux 6.5+ was for OpenVINO AI. With no measurable difference to the CPU power consumption, the Linux 6.5+ performance was slower for the OpenVINO benchmarks either due to differing AMD P-State / governor behavior or some other regression yet to be analyzed.


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