DynamicClocks on R200

[Alex Deucher]

On 7/24/05, Patrick McFarland <pmcfarland at downeast.net> wrote:
> I was reading the radeon manpage, and I saw DynamicClocks, and it said I could
> save power, but it possibly could decrease speed in some cases. So, I thought
> to my self, "my machine uses a lot of power as it is, so lets turn that on."
> 
> Before turning it on, I ran the good ole glxgears, and it gave me consistant
> scores if slightly below 2000 fps. With it on, however, glxgears gives me
> scores consistently slightly above 2100 fps. What gives?

tough to say.  It could be that the default clocks as the bios sets
them up are not quite optimal and when dynamicclocks is enabled, the
high end gets a little higher.  One thing to note, if you have a
desktop chip, dynamicclocks does nothing as the code is only executed
on mobility chips.

Alex

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