AMD hopes Windows 11 Update can rescue Zen 5 – tested!
KitGuru has reviewed four AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs over the past few weeks that use the latest Zen 5 technology and we are keenly awaiting the inevitable Zen 5 3D silicon for gamers. What we did not expect from AMD was news about an update for Windows 11 that would give Zen 5 a significant boost in gaming.
The news landed in the form of a blog post from AMD and it is peculiar in a number of different ways. The first is that it focuses on gaming, the second that it refers to Ryzen 9 9950X which is NOT primarily a gaming CPU, and thirdly AMD employs a suite of games that are generally considered rather elderly and beyond their sell-by date. The response at KitGuru was to download a copy of Windows 11 24H2, line up a stack of CPUs and a smaller stack of SSDs and to get busy on the test bench…
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:56 AMD’s blog earlier this week…
03:20 Memory and VBS details…
04:43 Admin mode?
05:26 AMD’s recommendations
06:41 Leo’s test setup
08:31 Far Cry 6
09:55 Cyberpunk 2077
11:36 Total War: Pharaoh
14:37 What have we learned?
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KitGuru says: It is clear the 24H2 update for Windows has an impact on gaming performance for AMD Zen 5 but quite how it achieves these results is a bit of a mystery.The post AMD hopes Windows 11 Update can rescue Zen 5 – tested! first appeared on KitGuru.
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