Hardware Thread 2020

Dude said:

One my HW info post a while back. It seems it was the AMD power plan, I switched to Windows balanced and it shows cores dropping.

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Interesting. What is the difference between the AMD and Balanced plans?

Kol12 said:

Interesting. What is the difference between the AMD and Balanced plans?

Not much if any. I can't find no difference although Ryzen plan was supposed to help distribute core load better but 10 has that now too. There's also 1ismus power plan 1usmus Custom Power Plan for Ryzen 3000 Zen 2 Processors | TechPowerUp but I can't detect any change with it either.

CountMike said:

Not much if any. I can't find no difference although Ryzen plan was supposed to help distribute core load better but 10 has that now too. There's also 1ismus power plan 1usmus Custom Power Plan for Ryzen 3000 Zen 2 Processors | TechPowerUp but I can't detect any change with it either.

I havent tried the 1usmus custom plan. Will give it a shot soon. I am running PBO now, does pretty good

New GSkill installed on the Z170

Looking good Brian

Bench Virgin said:

NEW - AMD Ryzen™ Chipset Driver Release Notes (2.04.28.626)
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/re...et-2-04-28-626

AMD Rysen balanced / Windows balanced/Ultimate Performance/ 1usmus Ryzen ,bench about the same for my system.
The outliers / High performance - and of course Power safer

I'm using 1ismus power plan slightly modified. 1usmus Custom Power Plan for Ryzen 3000 Download v1.1

Do your Ryzen CPU's get locked into full turbo boost and max voltage in high performance mode?

Kol12 said:

Do your Ryzen CPU's get locked into full turbo boost and max voltage in high performance mode?

Yes, it reaches almost max boost on one core (at a time) 4.379GHz and over 4.25 on others but best benchmark scores are still with 1ismus power plan which I modified only in two places, Minimum CPU at 5% and disks sleep to 0.

CountMike said:

Yes, it reaches almost max boost on one core (at a time) 4.379GHz and over 4.25 on others but best benchmark scores are still with 1ismus power plan which I modified only in two places, Minimum CPU at 5% and disks sleep to 0.

Max performance is just like an on/off switch, the real power saving features lie in the CPU power states. For Intel this is C-States. Unfortunately I am not familiar with Ryzen power states.