Not certain if it's related, but the recent p-state changes to the related code for AMD in the Linux scheduler has gotten smarter over the last several releases

Not certain if it's related, but the recent p-state changes to the related code for AMD in the Linux scheduler has gotten smarter over the last several releases. It can pinpoint which cores are the fastest out similarly speced cores, based on manufacturing processes and related, and prefer those cores for tasks as they can run just a little bit faster.