3D acceleration for Rock 5 ITX

#1

In the latest Radxa’s official build, with kernel 5.10.110-35-rockchip, it seems that the 3D acceleration is missing or not enabled. Any ideas on how to enable 3D acceleration?

#2

Hi the Performance of the ITX board with the generic build is terrible even on NVMe - Armbian on my slowest SD card outperforms this by 3x in every way… Scores on glmark2-es2 is not much better when the mali GPU is put into performance mode vs my Zero 3E…

I just want to say if I was a complete noob - If I didnt know that other OS’s perform better I would trash this board and never buy Radxa again since the performance is that bad.

I do feel that roobie should include a way to easily install other SD card images onto NVMe.
However this is going to be split off into its own topic.

#3

I am a complete NOOB. I’m installing JR Ubuntu 24.04 right now. Will see how that works. Incidentally, how do you put Mali PU into a performance mode?

#4

you will need the cpufreq tools installed
to change the mali gpu you can echo “performance” | sudo tee … then the path to your mali
I found its path by find /sys |grep mali
This does not survive a reboot

I found that the armbian rolling release which I have only got to work via sd card has awesome performance.