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AMD CEO: Better Gaming performance Ryzen CPUs with patches
AMD over the weekend made some statements on the somewhat lower gamer performance in CPU bound gaming situations like 1080p and a high-end graphics card. On Reddit during an ama session Su claimes that performance improvements for gaming is something that is worked on.
AMD is already working with developers to make sure improvements will be made. AMD points to the fact that not all games show this behaviour. Su underlines the fact that the Ryzen CPUs use a new architecture and that developers will need more time to become familiar with it and optimize accordingly.
AMD also states that there are about three hundred developers working right now to develop processor specific optimizations to improve the gaming performance of Ryzen CPUs. There was no information released about the availability of such patches and if such patches would bump up intel's performance as well.
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#5402332 Posted on: 03/06/2017 11:06 AM
I guess what also plays a role is that over the last decade, multi threaded gaming was not the real interest to go for anyway. Games just hardly need more than four cores, and haven't been optimized for 12 threads for instance. Look at a CPU heavy game like Battlefield that still "only" uses 6 to 8 threads properly (Ryzen review video for instance).
I guess what also plays a role is that over the last decade, multi threaded gaming was not the real interest to go for anyway. Games just hardly need more than four cores, and haven't been optimized for 12 threads for instance. Look at a CPU heavy game like Battlefield that still "only" uses 6 to 8 threads properly (Ryzen review video for instance).
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#5402335 Posted on: 03/06/2017 11:11 AM
Not expecting big gains. I suspect it won't be more than 5-10% better.
We'll see but these people lie for a living. Sell. Sell. Sell.
Not expecting big gains. I suspect it won't be more than 5-10% better.
We'll see but these people lie for a living. Sell. Sell. Sell.
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#5402341 Posted on: 03/06/2017 11:30 AM
Of course the $ million question is how long will this take? Weeks, months or years?
Su underlines the fact that the Ryzen CPUs use a new architecture and that developers will need more time to become familiar with it and optimize accordingly...
Of course the $ million question is how long will this take? Weeks, months or years?
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#5402345 Posted on: 03/06/2017 11:36 AM
With the work handed over to devs, it indeed is a question of million $ of worktime the devs have to put in to patching their games so that Su and AMD users are happy again... with what market share exactly? Don't see this happen too fast, but we'll see how it goes.
Of course the $ million question is how long will this take? Weeks, months or years?
With the work handed over to devs, it indeed is a question of million $ of worktime the devs have to put in to patching their games so that Su and AMD users are happy again... with what market share exactly? Don't see this happen too fast, but we'll see how it goes.
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On top of this there's the Windows scheduler. It is said to have a bug in it with regards to Ryzen, and a Windows update/Windows 10 Creators Update should resolve this.
There was also talk of a AMD CPU specific driver that allows for faster frequency/voltage switching without having to select performance mode in power options (which generally would be bad). Won't make a massive gains, but you could get the idea of this by choosing Performance mode now and doing a comparative benchmark (wouldn't technically even require a restart).
Some people have shown the benefits (allegedly) of using faster RAM. CPU microcode (a module of the bios) updates should help to improve compatibility and resultant performance in regards to fast memory.
If the above three things are true, it should give a nice little bump to all things and not just gaming, which looks to possibly have further gains with optimisations with Ryzen in mind.