Gaming performance will jump by 10 percent for some Ryzen chips.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•8 months ago

    The result is a significant performance improvement in gaming across a variety of Zen 4 and Zen 5 desktop Ryzen CPUs, including the popular 7800X3D chip. “Users will need to look for KB5041587 under Windows update > Advanced options > Optional updates,” says AMD in a statement to Wccftech. “We expect the performance uplift to be very similar between 24H2 and 23H2 with KB5041587 installed.”

    So…

    The fastest gaming chip that is cheaper than everything close to it…

    Is getting a 10% boost due to a software fix?

    That’s fucking nuts.

    • @[email protected]
      2•8 months ago

      I wonder what that fix is tho

      Turns out AMD got off it’s ass and started working together with microsoft instead of complaining

      nice

      • @[email protected]
        4•8 months ago

        Scheduler improvements. These improvements will be standard in an upcoming stable release, but with the launch of zen 5, amd worked with microsoft to get an optional patch released. Wendell with level1techs has some good content on the subject if you want to learn more.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•8 months ago

        The X3D’s just have ridiculously overbuilt caches. That’s the main thing (that I’m aware of) that makes them so fast with games while still being cheap.

        AMD just put more of that than Windows could handle to max out speed in games.

        So I’m assuming (and may be wrong) that the windows optimization is just updating it so that it could plan for those insane caches and take full advantage of it.

        • @[email protected]
          1•8 months ago

          That would make sense! I’m just glad they’re not doing their usual thing of not properly testing, not working with Microsoft, and then blaming everyone else when something breaks

          • @[email protected]English
            1•8 months ago

            I mean. I’m just assuming because linked article doesn’t give details and I’m not trying to hunt it down.

            But that’s a likely reason why we could see 10% gains for the best gaming chip currently out from just a software update

            Like, 10% doesn’t sound like much to people, but gamers will traditionally drop a couple hundred bucks for that type of gain, to get it on literally the best chip tho would likely be closer 4-500 because the price of performance gains is usually exponential at that level

            The whole X3d story is just crazy