The Official Steam Deck Thread

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Captain_Yuri said:

In other news

AMD + Valve Working On New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Valve-New-CPU-Freq

"AMD and Valve have been working to improve the performance/power efficiency for modern AMD platforms running on Steam Play (Proton / Wine) and have spearheaded "[The ACPI CPUFreq driver] was not very performance/power efficiency for modern AMD platforms...a new CPU performance scaling design for AMD platform which has better performance per watt scaling on such as 3D game like Horizon Zero Dawn with VKD3D-Proton on Steam."

AMD is ramping up efforts in these areas including around the Linux scheduler given their recent hiring spree while it now looks like thanks to the Steam Deck there is renewed interest in better optimizing the CPU frequency scaling under Linux.

AMD will be presenting more about this effort next month at XDC."

It will certainly be interesting to see how it all turns out. If there's one thing that's for sure, there's a lot going on under the hood than your standard affair if that wasn't obvious already.

Super interesting. And, yeah, it seems so. Like I said before, optimization is key here, and I'm very curious to see how that goes.