Ryzen 9000 was at the center of a great controversy mixed results which showed various analyzes of specialized media. Depending on the analysis and medium, we could find performance parity with the Ryzen 7000, an improvement in games between 2% and 4%, and an improvement of up to 21%.

It’s only logical that users who see such different results wonder what’s going on. When analyzing a new processor, there are many things that we need to consider and which are included basic good practice from any professional in the field. Performing a clean install of Windows is essential, as is installing the latest BIOS available and fine-tuning your computer’s configuration.

For the analyzes I used Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 9 9950X clean install of windows 11 I always run this OS as administrator. Because it couldn’t be otherwise, I installed the latest BIOS and the latest chipset drivers from AMD. I also checked the “core parking” problem in the first round of benchmark tests (turning off the cores to save power), I used high performance plan Windows 11 and I spent quite a bit of valuable time making sure everything was fine.

In my Ryzen 7 9700X analysis, I got an average improvement in gaming performance 9.4% compared to the Ryzen 7 7700Xboth with activated PBO. In the case of the Ryzen 9 9950X, the improvement was average 6.1% compared to the Ryzen 9 7590Xboth with activated PBO. These are lower than the 16% improvement that AMD reported, but at the same time they are much more reasonable than other results which, as I said, indicated parity and even lower performance in certain tests.

Ryzen 9000 has up to 9% higher performance in games, according to AMD

This number matches the results I got in my analyses. On its official blog, AMD also pointed out that the performance improvement compared to Core Gen 14 in games is up to 6% in more than 30 games, always at 1080p resolution, and pointed out that there are several factors that can affect the results. obtained in each analysis, such as:

• used games, because not all have the same CPU dependency or scale.
• RAM in usewhich must be identical on the compared platforms in order for the results to be comparable.
• Activating or deactivating VBSas this technology generally reduces gaming performance.
• Running tests as an administratoras it provides results that much better reflect the optimizations and improvements introduced in the jump predictor.

AMD promises performance improvements with future updates

Sunnyvale commented releases a code update aimed at improving the jump predictor, which will be implemented in Windows 11 24H2 and is already available on the insider channel. Depending on the game used, this update could achieve performance improvements in gaming. up to 13%according to AMD.

In some applications, such as Cinebench 24, there will be no change in performance. In other synthetic tests we can find improvement below 10%. For example, in Procyon Office, AMD says we will have an approximate 6% improvement.

The final version of Windows 11 24H2 will be released at the end of this yearso the only way to test it in the coming months will be to use the insider channel.