Owners of AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs get another free performance boost thanks to a patch that lowers inter-core latency with noticeable results

AMD has patched performance issues with Ryzen 9000 CPUs on older motherboards while announcing new market-ready motherboards for the Zen 5 architecture chips.

AMD is releasing new BIOS updates that will boost performance for its Ryzen 9600X / 9700X processors and address some latency issues. The performance improvements and latency reductions arrive around a month after disappointing Zen 5 desktop CPU reviews and appear alongside updates to Windows 11 that include optimized AMD-specific branch prediction for both Zen 4 and Zen 5 chips.

The company unveiled a number of Ryzen 9000 improvements, ranging from a much higher TDP for some of the CPUs to the core-to-core latency improvements we’ve already heard about. AMD is also now supporting higher-clocked DDR5 RAM,

Introduction It hasn’t been long since AMD launched the AMD Ryzen 9000 series (Zen 5) CPUs on August 7th, 2024, and August 14th, 2024. To say the launch came with mixed results is an understatement. What felt like Zen 1 days,

Though highly anticipated, AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series of desktop processors arrived with a bit of a thud earlier this year. Since then, the company has been in damage control, blaming the initial poor performance delta on some of its own faulty testing methodology while offering a series of fixes.

It's raised TDP for two CPUs, reduced core-to-core latency for the dual-chiplet CPUs, and optimizations are built into Windows now.