Debian <> Armbian GPU Performance

Hi there, I’ve tested Debian and Armbian on my Rock5. both installed only on NVME and same Display driver / settings.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/panfork-mesa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

Debian:

  • KDE and Gnome is running with X11
  • Wayland didn’t work, black screen and system stop running
  • Bad performance with glmark
    Armbian:
  • Gnome is running fine with Wayland
    =======================================================
    andreas@rock-5b:~$ glmark2-es2-wayland
    =======================================================
    glmark2 2021.02
    =======================================================
    OpenGL Information
    GL_VENDOR: Panfrost
    GL_RENDERER: Mali-G610 (Panfrost)
    GL_VERSION: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 23.0.0-devel
    =======================================================
    [build] use-vbo=false: FPS: 970 FrameTime: 1.031 ms
    [build] use-vbo=true: FPS: 1391 FrameTime: 0.719 ms

    =======================================================
    glmark2 Score: 963
    =======================================================
    Remark: yesterday I had score about 1302, why so different?
  • KDE didn’t work , neither with X11 or Wayland, Black screen with mouse

I’m fine with Gnome but KDE is my favorite.

Greetings
Andreas

Update
with echo "performance" > /sys/class/devfreq/fb000000.gpu/governor
glmark2 Score increase to 1679.

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