{"id":574056,"date":"2026-07-29T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574056\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:38:15","slug":"new-amd-linux-patch-boosts-low-end-gaming-performance-on-steam-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574056\/","title":{"rendered":"New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vernet\u2019s patch instead monitors cores to look for situations where a busy thread would benefit from an improved clock rate. The patch then temporarily sets just that core to the \u201cperformance\u201d setting until the workload slows enough to downshift back into energy-saving EPP mode.<\/p>\n<p>The nitty-gritty implementation at a kernel level gets pretty complicated\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/lore.kernel.org\/linux-pm\/20260728073150.54964-1-void@manifault.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">read through Vernet\u2019s write-up<\/a> for all the details.\u00a0But the worst-case performance improvements seem clear in early testing. Vernet\u2019s testing on Civilization VI benchmarks saw a 31.8 percent improvement in the \u201c1% low\u201d fps measurement, and 4.1 percent faster p99 frame generation times (i.e., the point where 99 percent of frames are generated at least that quickly).<\/p>\n<p>While this EPP adjustment doesn\u2019t affect the average FPS measurements in Vernet\u2019s benchmark, speeding up the slowest frames the game generates should help moderate the occasional jerky frame hitches that can occur when running a game in EPP mode.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll likely have to wait for Vernet\u2019s submitted patch to be integrated into the full AMD Linux kernel to see how the new feature fares on other common gaming benchmarks. Regardless, it\u2019s nice to see that low-level Linux coding updates are still wringing some performance improvements from Valve\u2019s quickly aging handheld hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vernet\u2019s patch instead monitors cores to look for situations where a busy thread would benefit from an improved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-574056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}