Tuesday, August 27th 2024
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series "Zen 5" Tested on Windows 11 24H2 Update, Shows Significant Performance Gains
AMD's Ryzen processors have received a significant performance upgrade, thanks to the recent Windows 11 24H2 update. This development addresses initial disappointments with the Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" series performance, particularly in gaming applications. The update, which improves branch prediction capabilities, has resulted in substantial gains for both the Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" and Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" CPU lineups. According to tests by Hardware Unboxed, Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" CPUs have shown double-digit performance increases across multiple game titles, a boost typically seen only between generational upgrades.
Interestingly, contrary to AMD's initial claims, the performance gains are not limited to the Zen 5 architecture. The Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" processors have also benefited from the update, with minimal performance differences observed between comparable Zen 5 and Zen 4 models after the update. This development marks a crucial turning point for AMD, addressing earlier criticisms and narrowing the gap between reported and expected performance figures. As users install the Windows 11 24H2 update, they can expect enhanced gaming experiences across a wide range of titles, highlighting the complex interplay between hardware capabilities and software optimization in modern computing. Below are the results from Hardware Unboxed benchmarks.
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via Wccftech
Interestingly, contrary to AMD's initial claims, the performance gains are not limited to the Zen 5 architecture. The Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" processors have also benefited from the update, with minimal performance differences observed between comparable Zen 5 and Zen 4 models after the update. This development marks a crucial turning point for AMD, addressing earlier criticisms and narrowing the gap between reported and expected performance figures. As users install the Windows 11 24H2 update, they can expect enhanced gaming experiences across a wide range of titles, highlighting the complex interplay between hardware capabilities and software optimization in modern computing. Below are the results from Hardware Unboxed benchmarks.
102 Comments on AMD Ryzen 9000 Series "Zen 5" Tested on Windows 11 24H2 Update, Shows Significant Performance Gains
AMD have even said that running as a super admin on 23H2 doesn't show the problem iirc, MSFT broke something in 23H2 I think.
Has the HWU released that video with Windows 10 admin account tests yet?
EDIT: Found this video. User is testing Win10/Win10 + admin, Win11/Win11 + admin and various resolution.
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Deeper in Reddit discussion one user links to another discussion about Win 11 "admin bug" being already discovered two years ago.
forums.guru3d.com/threads/5-to-10-performance-improvement-by-running-as-admin-win-11.445893/page-8#post-6257568 (post regarding Windows 10 performance)
forums.guru3d.com/threads/5-to-10-performance-improvement-by-running-as-admin-win-11.445893/page-8#post-6257597 (interesting post)
This Windows
bugfeature seems to be present from Windows 7/8 era, maybe even sooner:linustechtips.com/topic/914010-is-it-me-or-does-run-as-admin-improve-game-performance/
steamcommunity.com/app/243470/discussions/0/540744935113696938
That, in fact, might as well close discussions on topic whether this is Zen 5's or Microsoft's fault.
Just one of the many examples : matlab/comments/dxn38s
Whether it's done specifically to gimp performance on AMD systems is of course debatable, no one will ever admit to doing this on purpose but given Intel's proven track record of bribing companies there is no question that this must be the case at least in some situations.
They still have comarketing dollars that are dependent on % of sales relative to competing products... Granted they have much less money past 3 years for those comarketing dollars, but back in 2019 they advertised to their shareholders that 3B in competitive discounts was their adv against amd because they could out market them, and they recently got benchmarks thrown out of spec for cheating. And they have knowingly sold defective chips to consumers for the last year and a half.
All that said... lol. I am excited for their server chips to be competitive again. Competition is good for the market. And AMD keeps Fing launches, bad. Intel is in a bad spot and AMD cant win for winning.
the price will go DOWN soon and this thing never reaches 65C under FULL LOAD. NOT A FLOP! A good processor, stop being Crying babies! not only Linux/video editing/Rendering/Workstation software...compiling/coding etc they will have x3d soon, I guess it will be a win for AMD, now with Win11 24H2
Amd/comments/e4klj0
...do these redditors even listen to themselves sometimes
Ah, never mind, 5 year old post :kookoo: :laugh:
AMD could not offer the same volume intel did
In a magic world where cpu's just pop in to existence it wouldn't have mattered, but this isn't a magic world.
AMD couldn't make enough cpu's as it's a smaller player which is why they went in to debt to make fabs so they could offer higher volumes making them more interesting for large players like dell.
intel also has and had a slew of other products that made creating systems for system integrators far easier
on the server side there is the validation that needs to happen, just switching to AMD because they are a couple percent faster on the fly doesn't happen it takes years to do that.
which is why it took until zen 3 that intel started to see a serious bite in their market share.
AMD had 2 decent generations back then
intel having a marketing department, ... I can sit here all evening writing reasons why intel was doing better than AMD
There is a reason why it was hard for the judge to estimate how much damage Intel caused by it's rebates and less kosher schemes that might have put them in an unfair advantage against their competition.
IMHO AMD would have gone down even if intel had played 'fair'
And FYI I'm writing this on a system with a 7950x, I owned a K6 and K7 when those were the systems that were the best buy.
I'm not writing this out of some sort of fanatic fanboiism.
Yes, progress slowed down a little bit, but as I wrote in my previous post the GFC also happened in that period.
Money dried up for 4 years so it's not just AMD's disapearance that caused this.
We would have had 450mm wafers if that hadn't, double the surface area per wafer over current 300mm wafers...
Nothing happens in a vacume
Yes they got fined $5.4bn, but they still haven't paid it. They supposedly paid AMD 1.25bn of that but there are question marks over that deal anyway and I can't remember the exact details but remember that there was a dispute over that as well. That also constricted AMD's R&D budget which indirectly eventually led to bulldozer. We all know how that went. IMO Intel's business practices throughout the years have been worse than Nvidia's. That's saying something.
Edit: No, AMD didn't have two decent generations back then. Athlon, Athlon XP and Athlon 64 were all decent. Hell, even the delayed Phenom II was decent, especially Thuban.
Significantly larger companies use these types of tactics against smaller competitors often. They reason that, even if they get caught, it will be worth the cost. The profit they gained and damage to their competition greatly out ways the penalty. They consider it the "cost of doing business". Sadly, they are right. If the fines were truly punitive, maybe they'd less apt to pull this type of nonsense.
You do realize that Intel paid Dell 4.3 BILLION in rebates right?
You think Intel was "punished" by a measly 1.4 billion? That's not even a drop in the bucket for them. They earned $79 billion in 2020 alone. Punishment is designed to correct behavior but that's not what a fine this size does. A fine this size encourages anti-competitive behavior because companies know that at best they will get fined a tiny fraction of what they gained. And all of this is just an assumption based on nothing. Given that we know for a fact that Dell was paid by Intel 3.4 billion to not use AMD, I very much doubt AMD was going into debt to serve a company that wouldn't buy their products to begin with.
It also doesn't really check out either, it's not like Dell can't use a specific processor vendor in an lower volume SKU or in a smaller total number of SKUs. In addition, we know AMD provided the chips for various consoles throughout the years, consoles of which are high volume products. A single console is going to sell vastly more than any single Dell SKU. Clearly they were able to secure wafer contracts that enabled them to scale up volume. Heck to this day Dell essentially had to be strong armed into offering AMD server products by it's customers and even then their customer support constantly tries to sell you Intel only products. Nothing but a buch of gishgallop designed to push the conversation off topic and ignore the fact that we know Intel paid Dell 4.3 Billion to not buy AMD. Regardless of whether your arguments above are correct (and many of them are questionable at best), you are ignoring the facts in favor of your unsupported opinion.
If Intel had the above then why did they pay Dell 3.4 billion to not buy AMD? Why did they have a customer sales program for stores that encouraged sales people to push Intel processors over AMD via incentives for those sales people?
Oh yeah Intel had a marketing deparment, a very unethical and anti-competitive one. I don't put much stock in this opinion given what I've read thus far. Again though, it's really irrelevant to the topic and seems to only act as justification for Intel's illegal behavior. "Oh AMD would have failed anyways", clearly Intel didn't believe that because they would not have engaged in the practices they did if that had been their line of thinking. Intel saw AMD as threat and not just a company that would have failed on it's own. This is the "I'm can't be racist because I know a black guy" argument. Your PC specs aren't even filled. Of course this is the internet so you can claim whatever you want but you don't seem to realize that owning a product does not suddenly mean you can't be biased against it. Claiming you own an AMD processor is not the get out of jail free card you seem to think it is. A little? We were getting 3-5% a generation to the point where an entirely new ecosystem of processors outside of x86 was born and was able to catch up.
People were buying Intel's excuse that TIM was superior (whether that be Intel's claim that it lasted longer or that solder caused die cracking in customer's systems, both complete BS) and that there just wasn't much more performance to be had until AMD rolled back in with Zen. Then all of a sudden it's back to solder (because it's vastly better) and performance gains per generation returned to normal.
It's truly amazing to me how people continue to gaslight themselves as to how bad things were in the CPU market.
eMachines replacements when they would bring in a dead Intel system from being cooked alive in a closed desk above a heat vent in winter were an everyday thing. Bought it at Walmart for $599 and now had family pictures….. could I get them back and how much to repair?
Intel should have gotten 20X the fine, if they did AMD would have had the cash to maybe figure out the ATI and CPU mess 5 years sooner and we would have both brands making superior hardware now. If anyone disagrees they have a blue tongue. 5 Years ago was still 5 years after Intel was caught engaging in monopolistic practices. They still do it today. I’m not saying AMD is a saint. I’m saying Intel does shady things to make money and keep investors happy.
Let go of the tribalism
I see 22H2 as well.
www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=kb5041587