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How AMD boosted Ryzen 9000 CPUs by 17% overnight
- AMD's AM4 motherboards have received a new BIOS update that improves the performance of Zen 5 CPUs upto 17%.
- The company patched Windows 10 for Zen 5's release with better branch prediction, improving performance with Windows 11.
- AMD updated the CCD die layout for CPUs such as Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X to increase their performance.
- For the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X, the company set the power limit for those chips higher at 105 watts versus the previous 65 watts.
- Performance gains are not seen across the board of applications, though; AMD padlock a generation of CPUs that wasn't all that strong out of the box.
- After installation of the latest BIOS and Windows update, the Ryzen 9000 CPUs, sit at much better positioning to compete.
- The Ryzen 7 9700X benefits a lot as applications that use huge amounts of threads gets a massive performance jump.
- It is a positive move by AMD, but the company should have delivered better performance to its early customers in the first place.
- The Ryzen 9000 CPUs have faced a lot of competition from the last-gen AMD components, but with the updates, they have now brought up to speed.
- AMD will face stiff competition with the upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs; discussions have also started about the value of last-gen AMD Components.
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