Steam Deck Patch Boosts Low Frame Rates by 30% for Smoother Gameplay
A new series of patches for the Linux Kernel could boost gaming performance on the Steam Deck and other Linux-based gaming handhelds with AMD APUs. They're not official yet, but Phoronix reports that they can boost low frame rates by over 30%.The patches were posted to the Linux Kernel mailing list by Meta programmer David Vernet, who came up with a novel solution to a problem with Linux gaming on AMD. In some gaming workloads, busy cores that sat idle for any period reverted to a lower power state to conserve battery life.
- ▪A new series of patches for the Linux Kernel could boost gaming performance on the Steam Deck and other Linux-based gaming handhelds with AMD APUs.
- ▪They're not official yet, but Phoronix reports that they can boost low frame rates by over 30%.The patches were posted to the Linux Kernel mailing list by Meta programmer David Vernet, who came up with a novel solution to a problem with Lin
- ▪In some gaming workloads, busy cores that sat idle for any period reverted to a lower power state to conserve battery life.
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A new series of patches for the Linux Kernel could boost gaming performance on the Steam Deck and other Linux-based gaming handhelds with AMD APUs. They're not official yet, but Phoronix reports that they can boost low frame rates by over 30%.The patches were posted to the Linux Kernel mailing list by Meta programmer David Vernet, who came up with a novel solution to a problem with Linux gaming on AMD. In some gaming workloads, busy cores that sat idle for any period reverted to a lower power state to conserve battery life.
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