AMD issues updated BIOS to fix Ryzen boost bug, promising up to 50MHz more boost

September 11, 2019

As promised, AMD said Tuesday that it will deliver a new BIOS update to solve the company’s Ryzen boost bug, promising about 25MHz to 50MHz in additional boost clock speed under specific workloads. Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait about three weeks to receive it.On September 3, AMD acknowledged that its Ryzen processors weren’t reaching their advertised boost speeds. The new BIOS, based on the AMD AGESA 1003ABBA release, will address those issues, and even lower voltages a bit. There’s also something new: the AMD Monitoring SDK, designed to provide a framework for public reporting on various processor metrics, essentially reproducing the informal processor speed survey that helped unearth the original boost issue.To read this article in full, please click here

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