Thursday, October 21st 2021
Windows 11 Performance Issues on Ryzen Fixed by Updates from Microsoft and AMD
Microsoft and AMD on Thursday released software updates that fix the two performance issues affecting AMD Ryzen processors with Windows 11. The two issues were abnormally high L3 cache latency, and a broken "Preferred Cores" system. The companies had assessed that the issues impact performance of Ryzen processors on Windows 11 by as much as 15%.
The two issues are fixed in separate methods. The L3 cache latency bug is improved through a Windows Update patch, which has been released now as an Update Preview (an Update Preview is not a "beta," but a software update released ahead of its designated "patch Tuesday"). The Update Preview is chronicled under KB5006746, and Windows 11 systems updated with this, get their OS build version set as "build 22000.282." The next update restores the Preferred Cores mechanism that leverages UEFI-CPPC2. This update comes in the form of an AMD Chipset Software update. You'll need to download and install both of the following:
DOWNLOAD: Windows 11 October 21, 2021 Update Preview KB5006746 | AMD Chipset Driver Software 3.10.08.506
The two issues are fixed in separate methods. The L3 cache latency bug is improved through a Windows Update patch, which has been released now as an Update Preview (an Update Preview is not a "beta," but a software update released ahead of its designated "patch Tuesday"). The Update Preview is chronicled under KB5006746, and Windows 11 systems updated with this, get their OS build version set as "build 22000.282." The next update restores the Preferred Cores mechanism that leverages UEFI-CPPC2. This update comes in the form of an AMD Chipset Software update. You'll need to download and install both of the following:
DOWNLOAD: Windows 11 October 21, 2021 Update Preview KB5006746 | AMD Chipset Driver Software 3.10.08.506
85 Comments on Windows 11 Performance Issues on Ryzen Fixed by Updates from Microsoft and AMD
L3 Cache went from 16.6 to 9.9ns
i'll try at home later.
Windows 11 "launch" is just more beta testing for Microsoft's benefit with unwitting consumers as the guinea-pigs.
we got hit with print nightmare yesterday morning. 24 hours later still no printers…..
Latency is still a sad joke though.
The weird part is neither Microsoft, nor, more telling, AMD saw fit to push for a timely fix.
Later edit:
After reading this on my desktop I decided to see if there are any updates on my laptop, on which I made the mistake to accept the "upgrade" to Windows 11. There was some kind of Cumulative Update available. I installed it, the system tried to reboot, and now I'm staring at a black screen for the last 10 minutes. The fans are still spinning. Keeping the power button down doesn't seem to shut it down, for some reason. Yep. Beautiful updates, Microsoft. Just beautiful.
Even later edit:
I had to disconnect the laptop from the docking station / external video card. Then I was able to power it down. Reconnected it to the docking station, powered it up, then it installed the update.
Then I checked for updates again. Doing that automatically installed an "Update Preview" for .NET, without asking me, and now it's asking for another restart. Sigh. Very tempted to roll back to Windows 10.
crapproducts. Hope that helps you put an end to your wondering.Its also not fixed for 5900x @W1zzard
@btarunr
Please test 5900x and 5950x
5800x does seem to have any issues
+5 latency is huge and the l3 read, write, copy speeds as well.
The win patch does work but amd chipset driver ruins everything else, though it fixes cppc
Attached img is win 10
Edit, the 3rd img posted in this article also confirms a 4ns increase in memory latency. Am not surr what the impact is tho..
Installing the amd driver again uses a higher boosting core at 5.1gz but latency insreased by 5ns to 63ns and l3 bandwidth is all over the place.
I also posted my w10 bench which is quite aimilar to the one without amd chipset driver.
Amd needs to get their stuff together.
That's the kind of performance that causes issues, if it was constant I'm not sure it existed then - they're adding in new code for alder lake, changing the OS at a fundamental level, and broke something without noticing (they dont exactly run L3 cache benchmarks on every CPU model that ever existed by default)
Then they had to fix it, WITHOUT undoing the changes for AL
Especially the AMD RAID drivers and software.