News AMD's Ryzen 3000 Boost Fix Works, But Hits Wrong Cores

[CountMike]

All of this could have been avoided if only AMD lowered expected boost clock, then who ewer got a really good chip exceeding it would consider it a winning ticket.

 

[joeblowsmynose]

All of this could have been avoided if only AMD lowered expected boost clock, then who ewer got a really good chip exceeding it would consider it a winning ticket.

Yes I totally agree - if the boost behaviour is based in individual chip quality (which does seem to come into play), AMD should have been clear about that or at least used some fine print like "...up to 4.6GHZ Boost.

Heh, once you change the font size on this comment board you can't get the original one back, lol.

 

[nitrium]

I just updated to the second Gigabyte BIOS release of AGESA 1.0.0.3 ABBA (I skipped the first), and it did very little (as expected). It lifted my previous boost clock of 4266 MHz to 4316 Mhz (which is still 84MHz short of the advertised boost) and gave a performance increase in line with that - i.e. basically nothing.

 

[DMAN999]

Yes I totally agree - if the boost behaviour is based in individual chip quality (which does seem to come into play), AMD should have been clear about that or at least used some fine print like "...up to 4.6GHZ Boost.

Heh, once you change the font size on this comment board you can't get the original one back, lol.

I don't know when they added this to their website but it's there now:

https://imgur.com/K6tNkrO

View: https://imgur.com/K6tNkrO

 

[Insanityflea]

Another perfect analyze and review so big thanks for it.
Pity that is not mentioned if WHEA errors are finally fixed with ABBA Agesa on all X570 mainboards and when updates will be released to x470 and x370. Still waiting and getting impatient as from AMD still silence, oh I'm not impatient but more fed up by waiting as this is critical issue and improved boost is just nice to have as expected out of the box already.

Disable core boosting in the bios (run at base clock) to get rid of the whea errors for now. System will be 100% stable. I have the same issues with Windows BSOD's. Linux is fine. I can run at base clocks until everything is sorted out.

 

[Insanityflea]

I have a 3700x, disabled core boosting, run all cores @ 4.0 Ghz, 1.35v I get higher cinebench scores than stock with boosting enabled.

 

[TJ Hooker]

I don't know when they added this to their website but it's there now:

https://imgur.com/K6tNkrO

View: https://imgur.com/K6tNkrO

But it still doesn't say that it could vary based on the particular CPU itself.

 

[DMAN999]

But it still doesn't say that it could vary based on the particular CPU itself.

They did say "Included, but not limited to" before listing those factors though.
So that pretty much covers their butts if it doesn't hit Max boost no matter what the reason is. 😉

 

[DMAN999]

I have a 3700x, disabled core boosting, run all cores @ 4.0 Ghz, 1.35v I get higher cinebench scores than stock with boosting enabled.

What Cinebench R20 scores are you getting ?
I'm just curious to see how they compare with mine:
Best Multicore: 4985
Best Single Core: 508

https://imgur.com/RCsXjmS

View: https://imgur.com/RCsXjmS