Bug 450768

Summary:	System Information Doesn't Show Clock Speed for 5600X
Product:	[Applications] kinfocenter	Reporter:	jfblagden
Component:	About this System	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description jfblagden 2022-02-23 20:22:44 UTC

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Info Center
2. Check Under Hardware


OBSERVED RESULT
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor


EXPECTED RESULT
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor @ 4.6 Ghz
This would seem unimportant, but it would be nice as I sometimes vacillate between having my CPU only boost up to the stock 4.6 Ghz boost speed and having it boost all the way up to 4.8 GHz on all cores.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian 11
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This would seem unimportant, but it would be nice as I sometimes vacillate between having my CPU only boost up to the stock 4.6 Ghz boost speed and having it boost all the way up to 4.8 GHz on all cores.

Also, kinda unrelated, is GPU RAM usually listed? Or is the RX 5600 XT the only one for which KInfoCenter fails to report the amount of video RAM?

Comment 1 Harald Sitter 2022-02-24 06:18:12 UTC

We show what we get from procfs and the GL driver what specific info is in there is out of scope for us.

Comment 2 jfblagden 2022-02-24 19:40:46 UTC

(In reply to Harald Sitter from comment #1)
> We show what we get from procfs and the GL driver what specific info is in
> there is out of scope for us.

I haven't found a solution for the CPU speed yet, but I've been searching the web and also noodling around a bit, and I've found that the first line of output from glxinfo | egrep -i  'memory' is "Video memory: 6144MB". Even just showing that string would be great, though, it would be nice if it could be rounded and then MB replaced with GB.

Comment 3 jfblagden 2022-02-24 20:13:23 UTC

(In reply to Harald Sitter from comment #1)
> We show what we get from procfs and the GL driver what specific info is in
> there is out of scope for us.

I just found a solution for the CPU speed. lshw -class processor reveals the maximum CPU speed. Unfortunately, I can't find a way to get the base clock speed. Though, I guess the base clock speed isn't that important anymore. Plus, the maximum CPU speed is what I'm really looking for. It would have been kinda nice to also have the base clock speed, but the maximum clock speed is much more important for overclockers who are dealing with finicky BIOSes.