News Microsoft backports AMD branch prediction improvement to Windows 11 23H2, update available now — more users will see Ryzen performance improvements

[USAFRet]

I'm sure it depends on your situation. You probably don't work with new along with old hardware but I have to.

I work with older stuff as well.
And well understand the need for it. Sometimes.

But that particular system did not appear to be a dualboot anything,
Of course, I could be completely wrong.

 

[pf100]

What the release of update KB5041587 tells me is that all this time windows was unoptimized for ryzen and the only reason the update was made was because zen 5 looked bad in windows compared to linux. If it weren't for the design of zen 5 we'd probably have never gotten ryzen optimizations for windows.
Edit: I found out from a new Hardware Canucks video a few hours after making this post that it appears that update KB5041587 not only gives zen 5 (and 4 and 3) a boost but also gives intel cpu's a boost which pokes holes all in in my theory of it being tuned for zen 5. So now, again, I'm back to sticking with the idea that zen 5 is designed for AI and server workloads and amd badly misrepresented zen 5's performance numbers before release.

 

[Deleted member 2986452]

Whatever the reason... I'll take it. I'm installing the update now. Will compare to some of the benchmarks I did the other night and see what kind of a difference there is.

 

[nitrium]

I'll just leave this with one question:
Why stick with MBR?

I didn't want to! And I now have a GPT drive (with Win 11 on it). But Windows did not make that transition remotely easy. There is no provided tool. The only way to go from a Win 10 MBR system containing partitions to a Win 11 GPT system is to completely erase every last bit of data from said drive. The Windows 11 installer does not warn you that is what needs to happen.

 

[Kona45primo]

I updated to Windows 11 for the slight bump in fps on the 1 game I run.

Have a 5700x and I noticed a 7% bump give or take. "Upgrade" to Windows 11 was very quick, maybe 15 minutes after downloading.

Turned off a few things and it's really about the same as windows 10, still getting used to the central start button.

 

[stuff and nonesense]

Turned off a few things and it's really about the same as windows 10, still getting used to the central start button.

You can move it using the taskbar settings

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Linux, of course. Now up to 4.5% of users, and being soft-predicted to go up to 5% in less than a year.

https://www.tomshardware.com/softwa...oaching-45-for-first-time-could-hit-5-by-1q25

Mac is always an option too.

Yeah Linux or Apple OS. Whilst it's true they are alternatives, it's also true they are not for gamers, or anyone wanting to 'really' game. MEH!

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

I guess I'm in a select group when I say that I really like W11... even better than my previous favorite... XP. I don't get all the W11 hate. 🤣

P.S.

Not a Microsoft fanboy either... I think their "support" is absolute garbage and I'd rather walk barefoot over hot coals than deal with MS "support."

I'd agree with you there.

I think some of the posters in this thread and many others have lots to say about Win 11. And I'd imagine 50% of them have never installed it. Rather, they are just regurgitating crap they've read on the net.