Valve and AMD are in the process of developing a driver boosting Steam Deck Performance
So we have more news on Valve's Steam Deck. According to reports, the company is teaming up with AMD to design better CPU performance scaling drivers for Linux, aimed explicitly for the handheld gaming console.
If you are not aware of what's going on in the tech world, Valve has been dominating the news as of late by launching its new Steam Deck handheld gaming console. What's unique about this device is actually embedded with PC hardware, including an AMD custom APU and an integrated RDNA 2 GPU and Zen 2 CPU. With fully operational Linux-based Arch operating system. Until market launch, Valve will continue to improve the OS, ensuring a stable and consistent gaming experience over various gaming titles.
According to reports, Valve has been making a concerted effort to improve the CPU frequency scaling of Zen 2 cores in a joint effort with AMD. This collaboration will undoubtedly benefit Linux base gamers.
According to Valve, AMD's Zen 2 is designed for the ACPI CPU Frequency driver, which is not power efficient for AMD platforms—resulting in poor frequency scaling, making it difficult for limited power solutions. Scaling improvements from AMD made possible using Collaborative Processor Performance Control ( CPPC), part of ACPI specification. Overall, this will improve all-new Zen designs. Km
Will AMD and Valve show their work with the masses? That remains to be seen. On the other hand, AMD will share more details about its work on the scaling driver at the X. org Developer Conference(XDC), taking place this upcoming month, September 15th - 17.
