One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean
On average when carrying out more than 100 benchmarks on this Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" laptop under Linux, this single line of code change to the kernel yielded a 7% improvement to the geometric mean.
Or here is a look at the side-by-side difference for the wide variety of workloads I tested. This new Intel P-State driver tuning patch for Meteor Lake is a win and is good news ahead of the Arrow Lake launch too.
When looking at the CPU power consumption overall, for the wide variety of workloads tested it was just a slight uptick in power use and thus overall leading to slightly better power efficiency too. See all the data here.
So this is quite a nice one-line Linux kernel patch for Meteor Lake and will hopefully be mainlined to the Linux kernel for Linux 6.11 if not squeezing it in as a "fix" for the current Linux 6.10 cycle. It's just too bad though that it took six months after launch for this tuned EPP value to be determined. Fresh benchmarks between Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen on the latest Linux software will be coming up soon on Phoronix.
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