New AMD Ryzen Microcode Demoed: Reported 1.9 Percent Gain in Boost Clock

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  • hannibal
    Interesting... New improvements all the time... I really thinks that 1.0.0.4 is what should have been the release bios.
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  • kinggremlin
    AMD desperately trying to avoid that class action lawsuit..
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  • alextheblue
    kinggremlin said:
    AMD desperately trying to avoid that class action lawsuit..
    That would be one sorry loss in court for whatever lawyers are stupid enough to try. The turbo frequency isn't guaranteed for Intel or AMD chips. That's why there's a base frequency, and even then there are caveats (such as thermals). Read the fine print.
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  • alextheblue
    hannibal said:
    Interesting... New improvements all the time... I really thinks that 1.0.0.4 is what should have been the release bios.
    Nothing would ever get launched if you waited until things were perfect. The fact is that the launch BIOS was good enough, performance was (and still is) solid. If you benchmark the new BIOS vs the previous, you'll likely find performance is within the margin of error.

    Most of the improvements are going to be behind-the-scenes tweaks and bugfixes that nobody will notice. You'll flash it and everything will be the same. That doesn't mean it isn't worth them tweaking their algorithms, but this is a much smaller deal than the peak turbo numbers make it out to be. The AGESA improvements back with Ryzen 1000 were actually more substantial - in many cases it let people hit significantly better memory speeds (with a wider range of memory), which boosted fabric speeds and overall performance by a decent amount on the older design.
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  • kinggremlin
    alextheblue said:
    That would be one sorry loss in court for whatever lawyers are stupid enough to try. The turbo frequency isn't guaranteed for Intel or AMD chips. That's why there's a base frequency, and even then there are caveats (such as thermals). Read the fine print.

    No more sorry than the 8 core lawsuit again AMD and the 970 lawsuit against Nvidia. And just like those 2 cases, AMD would settle before it ever went to trial, because it isn't worth their time or money to try and win it, along with the likely scenario they would lose resulting in a significantly worse financial outcome for them. If you think no lawyer would take this easily winnable case, then you are living in an alternative universe than the rest of us. If a lawyer will take up a case over $2.12, then a lawyer will take the unatainable boost clock case.

    Taco Bell ad said the Chalupa Cravings Box would be $5. N.J. couple sued them when it wasn’t.
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  • wexir
    Ah so this new microcode is only for newest zens, quietly hoped it would also improve things on ryzen 1xxx series but that was just my wishful thinking, oh well. My 1600 sits at 4.0 on all cores anyway so im happy as it is :) good on amd being open about it and releasing such improvements, while intel on another hand nerfs the performance and straight out tells us to turn off hyperthreading in order to be secure enough :rolleyes:
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  • alextheblue
    kinggremlin said:
    If you think no lawyer would take this easily winnable case, then you are living in an alternative universe than the rest of us.
    Uh, no. They wouldn't have a leg to stand on - read the fine print. Or at least skim a good article on the matter, AnandTech had one not so long ago.

    https://www.anandtech.com/show/14873/reaching-for-turbo-aligning-perception-with-amds-frequency-metrics-/5
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