AMD and its partners have just released a barrage of motherboards based on the latest Socket AM5 chipset.
AMD and its partners have released a barrage of motherboards today based on the latest Socket AM5 chipsets. That’s the X870, as well as the dual-chip X870E version, if you haven’t been staying on top of things. Along with the fancy new mainboards, AMD has also released new AGESA firmware to its partners that promises to accelerate Ryzen 9000 CPUs in a couple of different ways.
First up, the firmware. There are two updates launching with AMD AGESA PI 1.2.0.2. The first, we’ve already written about a bit. AMD is adding an official 105W mode to the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X. These CPUs shipped with 65W TDP ratings, and many found that the Ryzen 7 9700X in particular could end up being power limited at 65W in multi-core workloads. AMD says that using the new fully-warrantied 105W TDP can earn the Ryzen 7 9700X an extra 10% performance. Of course, enthusiasts using PBO won’t see any difference, but keep in mind that Precision Boost Overdrive is overclocking and does void your warranty.
The other notable performance-boosting update coming with AGESA PI 1.2.0.2 is another thing we’ve written about before. It’s the optimization improving core-to-core latency.
