AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs at 105W do not show significant improvements

AMD’s new BIOS update that raises the TDP of the Ryzen 9000, more specifically the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X SKUs, from 65 to 105W, has not yet arrived. However, a simulated test shows that There should be no performance increase in games with an extra 40Wonly a slight improvement in synthetic benchmarks involving multi-core.

For now, only MSI has released an update, which is not yet official, but uses the same settings as the final version that will still be released by AMD, so we already have an idea of ​​what to expect in terms of performance.

Tests carried out by the Ascii.jp website with the Ryzen 9000 on an ASRock AM5, running Black Myth: Wukong, F1 24, Starfield and Counter-Strike 2, show that the performance difference between the 65W and 105W modes is minimal, basically a technical tie. With a few exceptions, such as Starfield which gains almost 5 FPS more than minimums.

Even Counter-Strike 2, a game that greatly benefits from a good processor to deliver very high frame rates, only sees a 5-7 FPS increase with the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X in the averages, with no change in the minimums.

The curious thing about these tests, specifically in games, is that using any of these Ryzen 9000 with TDP at 105W, the consumption remains the same compared to the processor at 65W, and even going further at 120W.

In the case of the Ryzen 7 9700X, in CS2, the three different TDP levels have consumption between 83-84W. The Ryzen 5 9600X stays at 78W regardless of the mode. The same is reflected in other games.

Ryzen 9000 at 105W yields more in productivity

Moving now to synthetic benchmarks, more specifically Cinebench 2024, we can see an increase of less than 10% with the Ryzen 9000 at 105W compared to the standard 65W. This increase only happens when the test involves multiple cores, as it requires more power and these tests extract the maximum from the CPU. In single-core, the change is negligible.

Keep in mind that this is still a simulation of how the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X should operate with the higher 40W TDP compared to the factory configuration. We don’t know if there will be extra optimizations from AMD that could change these results.

These tests with the Ryzen 9000 at 105W show us that there should be a benefit in content production and work involving rendering, but nothing should change for those who play with these processors.

Via: WCCFtech