Though highly anticipated, AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series of desktop processors arrived with a bit of a thud earlier this year. Since then, the company has been in damage control, blaming the initial poor performance delta on some of its own faulty testing methodology while offering a series of fixes.
AMD’s latest Ryzen update allegedly delivers even better performance and more options for desktop users.
According to a press release this morning, AMD’s newest firmware for the X870 motherboards and Ryzen 600 chipsets will give the new Ryzen 9600X and 9700X processors access to a new 105-watt TDP power profile. This has been technically possible since release, but the new BIOS options will let users push these less-expensive chips to higher performance without voiding warranties.
AMD says that they’re also addressing an increase in core-to-core latency that some reviewers spotted when comparing Ryzen 9000 chips to their 7000-series predecessors. The press release says that the 1.2.0.2 BIOS “cut[s] …