Fabio Benchmarks: 7
Linux Mint mainline compiled kernel 5.6.2 Mitigations =ON vs =OFF on grub.cfg i7 4790k stock performance governor Asus RX 580 8GB OC Map FPS benchmark
Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Kernel: 5.6.2 GPU Driver: 4.6$ Mesa$ 20.0.5 GPU: CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz RAM: 24 GB
GTX 660 1215MHz biosmod de_vertigo cs_assault
Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Kernel: 5.6.2 GPU Driver: 4.6.0$ NVIDIA$ 440.82 GPU: CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz RAM: 24 GB
GTX 660 with overclock via biosmod CPU do not hold the max clock with low frames in powersave mode
Trevor area offline GTX 660 1215MHz biosmod
Because the GPU can't render frames fast, the CPU was reducing the clock to power saving. Changed the CPU governor to performance
GTX 660 Over biosmod 1215MHz Sniper Elite walking in the map
Overclock biosmod GTX 660 1215MHz