AMD Improves Zen 5 CPU Latency and Performance With BIOS Updates
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/09/30/1410204/amd-improves-zen-5-cpu-latency-and-performance-with-bios-updates
- Source link:
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24258147/amd-zen-5-cpu-performance-latency-bios-updates
ILOK music software protection is still an issue, (Score:1)
[1]https://cdm.link/amd-ilok-issu... [cdm.link] from TFA : " Musicians updating to AMD’s latest-and-greatest Ryzen 9000 Series / Ryzen AI 300 Series CPUs have found they’re unable to use PACE’s iLok License Manager and plug-ins that use its copy protection scheme. Fortunately, a fix from AMD is inbound that should resolve the issue."
[1] https://cdm.link/amd-ilok-issue/
Re: (Score:2)
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Musicians ... found theyâ(TM)re unable to use PACEâ(TM)s iLok License Manager
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Wow, we never would have had Jimi Hendrix without spyware DRM.
Unlocking latent performance (Score:2)
Rather suspicious they suddenly have a firmware fix that improves performance for a newly-released CPU that was poorly received by the market. I guess they figured out they couldn't hold off on these gains until Zen 6 so decided to unlock them on Zen 5.
Re: (Score:2)
More like this is just further evidence that Zen 5 was rushed to market before it was ready. AMD bungled this launch in just about every way possible.
What isn't being said... (Score:2)
AMD released the new AGESA version weeks ago, but it has taken motherboard makers time to prepare the new BIOS versions and test them before making these updates available. Now, the problem with Windows 11, and how things were actually reducing even Zen4 performance before the latest Windows Insider builds(as of two months or so ago, maybe longer), makes me wonder if someone at Microsoft was paid off by Intel to hurt AMD performance. The updates to Windows did improve Zen4 performance as well, even with