Could Windows 11 be related to the problems (at least some of them) which the integrated Ryzen 9000 experienced from AMD? As you may remember, the arrival of AMD’s new generation of processors and APUs was delayed due to a problem in the manufacturing process. This, while a problem, was also a huge relief to the company, because the other possibility is that it was an architectural problem, which would have been a terrible problem.

As we told you at the end of last month, AMD had to provide an explanation (and promise improvements) because several performance tests that were published Not only were they quite disappointing, they were also very disjointedwhich is somewhat difficult to understand when we consider that many of these tests are performed in test applications that are abstracted from the rest of the system in order to test solely the component being evaluated.

Between the delay in its arrival on the market and the unsatisfactory results of a large part of the performance tests, we are undoubtedly faced with this one of the weakest releasesto such an extent that the company was forced to significantly reduce the price of these new integrated devices a few weeks after the launch. However, it seems that the responsibility for these problems does not fall solely on AMD. On the contrary, Windows 11 could also have something to do with it.

As we read in Neowin, this was shown by the tests carried out by the YouTuber Hardware Unboxed (HwU). Windows 11 24H2 installation provides up to 12% performance improvement with Ryzen 9000 chipsets. An increase relative to what? Well, let’s do the same tests, with the same system, but under Windows 11 23H2. An improvement that, if confirmed in general, will show that the work done by AMD was much better than first thought.

The bad news, however, is that it appears the operating system has another problemwhich would prevent the maximum performance of AMD chips from being used even after the 24H2 update, and the problem is that the origin of this performance degradation has not been precisely identified. So even in a freshly installed and updated system, we can find that there is “something” in Windows 11 that prevents us from taking full advantage of the Ryzen 9000. Hopefully, Microsoft is already working on it.