[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 (Exynos) ROMs, Kernels, Reco] TechNoobForSale:
Also for people's happiness right now I am running a variety of Benchmarks to study how much the performance of the device was increased. Version of the Kernel is latest as of now. GPU overclock not possible, therefore 572MHz max. Games are not tested as of now as the improvements aren't too remarkable for me to be able to see any visible improvement even if I wanted. I'll have to overclock in order to see. I am on stock One UI 2.5 Android 10.

NW: I dialed small cores's frequency back to 1798MHz from this Custom Kernel's stock 2002MHz for the first tests, but so far I still see an improvement that ranges between 5 to 10% in all benchmarks.1798MHz to 2002 is roughly a 12% overclock either way and the small cores are very weak, so the difference wouldn't be too astonishing. The phone is also actively cooled down so that peak output is ensured.

Geekbench 5:

Single Core: 698

Multi Core: 2157

These values are in line with the stock Kernel. However I now get them more frequently and they are still in the "rare zone" for Exynos 9810 scores.

PCMark, Storage 3.0

Storage score: 6183 (Equal to average. Expected since there is no claimed storage performance boost. Noted though that the singular Storage 3.0 benchmarks have shown improvements that could even go as far as 50%. Therefore the overall score may not be fully accurate).

PCMark, Work 3.0 score: 6872 (Roughly 12% above the average. Some individual tests almost got a 20% boost)

AnTuTu:

Total: 420.414

The score is roughly 5% higher than the best I could get on the stock Kernel (400.786)

The GPU score increased by 3%. CPU increased by roughly 4%. Memory performance increased by about 10%. User experience too about 10%.

3DMark, Icestorm Unlimited:

Total: 46.574

This is roughly a 5% improvement over stock average. Not much to say.

3DMark, Slingshot Extreme Unlimited (OpenGL ES 3.1):

Total: 4.335

This is in line with the stock kernel, even though it defeats 92% of all other Samsung Galaxy N960F.

3DMark, Wildlife Unlimited:

Total: 2.367

Perfectly in line with the average, beating 51% of the N960F devices. GPU is not overclocked and no particular optimization or driver update is applied to it according to the developer, so this has to be expected as this is exclusively a GPU intensive benchmark.

CPU Throttling Test:

Average: 107.159GIPS

Max: 125.479GIPS

Min: 89.341GIPS

This is perfectly average.

GFXBench:

High-Level Tests:

1080p T-Rex Offscreen (ES 2.0): 132fps (This is average)

1080p Manhattan Offscreen (ES 3.0): 80fps (Unknown)

1080p Manhattan 3.1 Offscreen (ES 3.1): 47fps (This is in the margin of error above average)

1080p Car Chase Offscreen (ES 3.1): 29fps (Unknown)

1080p Aztec Ruins Offscreen (Normal Tier, ES 3.1): 31fps (Unknown)

1440p Aztec Ruins Offscreen (High Tier, ES 3.1): 11fps (This is average)

Low Level Tests:

1080p Texturing Offscreen: 7.419 MTexel/s. (This is average)

1080p Driver Overhead 2 Offscreen: 33fps (This is average)

1080p ALU 2 Offscreen: 100fps (Unknown)

1080p Tessellation Offscreen: 71fps (Unknown)

Battery life under the benchmark's stress: In line with what people would expect from stock. Probably just a little bit lower. But it's not nothing upsetting. (Reminder this is at stock frequencies).

Verdict: The Kernel overall even at totally stock frequencies offers fair improvements compared to the stock firmware. Further optimization would help the phone greatly increase its CPU performance, I will give sources following this.

Tips for the developer: There is plenty of work that has to be done in order to solve Samsung's horrible work with Exynos 9810, which is in reality a very powerful SoC, cursed with an horrible Governor, slow hotplug, scheduler system and conservative power choices. I suggest to check out the analysis of the very respectable Andrei Frumusanu, which tweaked the Exynos 9810's CPU and extracted its full performance, and opened a path to even wider possibilities.

Improving The Exynos 9810 Galaxy S9: Part 1

www.anandtech.com

Improving The Exynos 9810 Galaxy S9: Part 2 - Catching Up With The Snapdragon

www.anandtech.com

these are the sources that may give useful tips for this kernel's future development. Unless, the developer already applied said improvements in the Kernel but refrained from openly stating it. RAM overclocking may also be another thing to keep in mind, as another developer, ace2nutzer, considered that possibility on Samsung Galaxy G950F and G955F. Some useful tips may also be found in the Endurance Kernel, made by developer Eamo5, like the 16ms PELT Half-Life. Support for F2FS would also grant an hefty boost in storage performance. However that file system seems very unstable by nature and I would see why its implementation would end up being impossible.

NW: CPU load is not visible even on N960F devices. This is to answer a person who couldn't see said data on their N960N. Application used to monitor System stats is CPU Float. CPU and GPU temperature is also not given out by the system, making it impossible for me to fine tune any type of overclocking in order to extract the most out of the Kernel.