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Not reaching advertised boost clocks seem to be related to newer AGESA releases from AMD to motherboard vendors, so I wouldn't blame it on chip quality just yet
by Hikikomori 7y ago
Not reaching advertised boost clocks seem to be related to newer AGESA releases from AMD to motherboard vendors, so I wouldn't blame it on chip quality just yet. These contain bugfixes (RdRand for example) and other changes, but has impacted boost clocks. People running AGESA 1.0.0.2 report reaching boost clocks easily (sustained in single-core tests), while I and others running later releases have issues.
New architecture, new chipset, bound to have some release issues. Intel is on its second or third refresh of their Skylake architecture from 2015, all ironed out.
- GrayShade 7y ago> Intel is on its second or third refresh of their Skylake architecture from 2015, all ironed out. More like the fourth, I think.
- paulmd 7y agoI've seen plenty of people having problems on older AGESA too. I've seen some people actually have higher performance on newer AGESA. It all depends on your particular sample and setup and how it fits into the boost criteria. Silicon quality still plays a massive role. So to be clear, older AGESA isn't a magic bullet that is letting all chips "easily hit their rated boost clocks". It could be cleaned up somewhat in future AGESA releases, and silicon quality will definitely go up over time.