AMD CEO: Better Gaming performance Ryzen CPUs with patches
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fantaskarsef
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).
0blivious
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.
alanm
fantaskarsef
Ryu5uzaku
Stormyandcold
fantaskarsef
Undying
Same goes with games utilizing more cores Ryzen performance will get better.
Stormyandcold
fantaskarsef
alanm
Have a feeling by the time devs show promising improvements with ryzen optimizations, there may be refreshes or new SKUs, either from Intel or AMD.
Inolvidable
I have been following Ryzen this weekend and although no improvement can be expected in some areas (overclock for example) there is objective evidence that suggest potentially big improvement room for games and other complex programs and some improvement room for single threaded software and memory latency (and bandwith) through software optimizations in microcode, in bios and in every program itself so they can adapt to the new architecture and take advantage of their strengths.
Edit: I think the improvements that bios, microcode and windows can bring will happen relatively fast. The ones that rely on changing software itself obviously could take a while. For the sake of everyone I hope that Intel won't be successful this time in preventing the adoption of Ryzen by messing with developers, OEMs or trusted reviewers ... Dreaming is free of course...
As a personal thought: We are talking about a new architecture in a new fabrication process with a new platform and socket in an environmet where every major software has been built and improved for Intel's hardware over years... What could go wrong? IMHO Ryzen has been truly competitive from day one, impressive in some areas and good enough in others, but competitive nonetheless. I am astonished by the accomplishments of AMD and, all things considered, also by how smooth the launch has been so far
lmimmfn
I think the windows scheduler update will be a big gain, from what i read what's happening is windows doesn't see the CPU as 2 CCX's, when it removes a thread from execution and later schedules it to be executed it must execute the thread on the same CCX again, otherwise its cached data( presuming still in L2/L3 cache ) must be moved from the other CCX with a slow transfer rate of 22GBs.
Apparently Windows 7 does a much better job at scheduling on Ryzen but there aren't many benchmarks and it looks like its a pain to get windows 7 working with Ryzen.
sverek
Developers optimizing engines for ryzen is not realistic in near future.
I really would love to see chipset optimization via BIOS update, windows update to improve Ryzen scheduling and hopefully Nvidia GPU drivers optimization for Ryzen this spring.
I am pretty sure this would make difference for gaming and further improve performance.
H83
Denial
sverek
H83
PrMinisterGR
H83
It´s funny. I´ve just been in an online support chat from Microsoft where i asked if there was any kind of problem with installing W7 on a Ryzen system with an Asus board and the answer was that there´s no problem because Ryzen is supported on W7, like the Asus Crosshair 6 Hero, and should work without any problem. Very different from their official stance...
Well good news from me because i´m considering a 1700.