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Is Microsoft Deliberately Limiting AMD CPU Performance?

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VBS is on for Windows 11 by default.
Seems its been discovered in 24H2 its now off by default. If that is incorrect then dont shoot the messenger, a youtuber put it in a video. :p


Win11 24H2 version (the patched one!) still gives bad performance for Ryzen 3000 & 5000 compared to win10. So, for 3-4 years now, AMD is having much worse reviews than they should on their CPUs just because of that mess of an OS. And Intel stayed afloat as having comparable CPU performance due to nerfed Ryzen performance.

As for the question if MS does that on purpose, let me ask:

1) Which of those 3 companies (MS, Intel, AMD) have being found guilty at least once for anti-competion practices? Those two found guilty have collaborated for decades now. AMD was always the small company that happened to compete well for a few years with Athlon CPUs and went down again because of market manipulation from Intel side for years.
2) Which of the others MS would help if Intel or AMD pushed to get a help?
3) Which one between AMD and Intel needed that more and had more money to burn and buy out that help?
4) Who was so desperate to remain relevant while their products were inferior in most metrics and would remain so for the next 3 years (at least)?

That thread title is just a logical question for any sensible person with knowledge of historical facts of PC market. And most should anwer YES given the strong evidence coming out day after day. 2/3rds of the games show AMD CPUs losing close or more than 10% (huge difference) when going from win10 to win11 and only a few% of games do so for Intel.
This youtuber still not testing intel as well? He needs to do a better job, Intel needs to be in that data, and he needs to list the things he check listed to assure both Windows were either configured the same way (as there is more than just VBS) or if there is anything different listed.

When HUB tested Win11, as well as I think it was level1 tech, they both got improved performance on 24H2 on AMD vs Windows 10. (Hub also tested Intel and that had an improvement as well).

Seems to be a bunch of youtubers just doing random Windows build AMD only testing like they all clones jumping on the same bandwagon.
 
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It's thanks to those influencers that I've been conditioned to skip/ignore videos with titles like that. The masses can't seem to get enough of those keywords though.
Same here.
 
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Same here.
And here. To be honest, I don't even watch reviews anymore, unless there is a chance I might buy the product. Otherwise, I just come on to TPU, look at the charts and call it a day. 20+ min videos are a waste of time.
 
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And here. To be honest, I don't even watch reviews anymore, unless there is a chance I might buy the product. Otherwise, I just come on to TPU, look at the charts and call it a day. 20+ min videos are a waste of time.
Unless it's GN for 1.5 hours talking about Intel might have degradation problems. Then it's totally worth being bored to death then!! XD
 

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Agreed and I blame the current crop on influencers aka Youtubers that love to use the terms “destroyed” and “annihilated” when obtaining such results in favor of their favorite brand.

Yeap, many are also biased, be just bribes or worse, just because its their favorite brand/corporation.

Robeytech got triggered when I asked him why he doesn't use AMD cards.

Same for Steve Jesus at GamersNexus.
Want honest testing and thoughts.


He even got slandered by GN etc, when truth was in the videos of his testing, from FX to Radeon NV, Intel etc.

And here. To be honest, I don't even watch reviews anymore, unless there is a chance I might buy the product. Otherwise, I just come on to TPU, look at the charts and call it a day. 20+ min videos are a waste of time.
 
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