Ryzen 3700x idle temps / Ryzen CPU boost always on ?

[TheLostSwede]

Pretty sure I've seen Cool'n'Quiet on my Biostar X370 board as well. I would guess that Asus renames it to something silly, likely under their "EPU" branding of anything and everything related to power delivery.

I don't have it or anything like it on my X570 Gigabyte board and never saw anything like it on my X370 Asus board.
Looks like it's part of Ryzen though...

Cool'n'Quiet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Valantar]

I don't have it or anything like it on my X570 Gigabyte board and never saw anything like it on my X370 Asus board.
Looks like it's part of Ryzen though...

Cool'n'Quiet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Given that there's pretty much zero enforcement of standards in BIOS feature naming, I'm not surprised. They probably felt the Cool'n'Quiet name was too old/generic/non-gamery and decided to rename the feature something like "RGB* Idle Efficiency Boost for GAMING!!!!1!1 (*not related to RGB functionality)".

 

[neko77025]

If you use Ryzen Master to monitor the cores they still clock down/sleep even with the high performance power profile. At least my 3600 still does.

Ok .. so today after reading this .. I ran Ryzen Master and switched threw all the power plans.

First thing that stuck out was Power Save & AMD power save ... Just eyeballing the numbers .. they were the only 2 that showed any change at all ...

(this here)
Windows Power Saver drops the CPU voltage to .931259 runs 2 - 3 cores @ 887 - 1240 mhz ( Lowest CPU voltae of all plan. )
AMD Power Saver .. UPs the CPU voltage to 1.4879 .... tends to only run 2 cores @ 1100 -1600mhz ( Highest CPU voltage of all plans.)
All Other plans ... seem to run around 1.474 Volts and run 4 cores

I was not happen with this ..

So I ran ea Power plan for 5mins letting my computer idle .. with only This web page open, Ryzen Master running and my normal background task. Made A spread sheet of the info..

Ea. Plan was let idle for 5mins .. and wrote down ea stat range from high - low for 1min

Again Powersave/ AMD power save really seem to be the only ones that change much ... ( AMD Balanced looks like the best over all choice tho)

Ryzen 3700x Idle Power Modes

Sheet1 #core avg,#cores MAX,CPU Voltage,Temps,MHz Low ,MHz High ,PPT ,TDC ,EDC Balanced,3,5,1.47524,36.01,800,1401,37-40,13-15,9-10 Power Saver,3,3,0.931259,33.17,693,1305,24-25,2-4,3-4 AMD Balanced,3,4,1.47508,35.89,718,1394,37-38,13-15,8-11 AMD High Performance,3,5,1.47516,37.11,901,1215,37-3...

docs.google.com

But after doing all that ^ .. and looking back .. I know I was seeing 1.4879 volts when I first open Ryzen Master ... but its not showing up in that data as so

Looking at AMD power save with even more stuff open .. I am geting A 1.35volts and 33-34c temps.

AMD Power saves is trying to only use 2 core ...would say 95% of the time i just see 2 cores in use .. rarely A 3rd ... but I have seen CPU volage from 1.35 - 1.48

--- On A side note ... Ryzen master Peak speed MHz is matches nothing else ... Windows task manger or CPU z .... (CPUz shows my multiplier jumping from 34.4 to 43) ... that matches what windows is showing.

 

[biffzinker]

Using the AMD Balanced Power Plan Profile with all cores forced to 4,175 MHz

Cores down clock or entering sleep state

Single core/thread load

All cores/threads

 

[advanced3]

I am pretty much convinced the 3700x is really 4.2Ghz CPU.

 

[neko77025]

Using the AMD Balanced Power Plan Profile with all cores forced to 4,175 MHz

Cores down clock or entering sleep state
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Single core/thread load
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All cores/threads
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You are right , not sure what windows / cpuz is reporting .

When idle ... a few cores will will show 200 - 1600 .. however .. windows and cpuz are show 3.6 - 4.3ghz ....
another funny thing is ... windows / cpu z report 4.3 alot .. master tops out a 4.2