This year’s feature update for Windows 11 includes a performance patch for AMD processors. AMD says that this should improve the performance on systems with Ryzen 9000 processors by up to 13% when gaming.
A 13% increase would be a massive achievement. Independent tests show now that there is not only light but also shadow.
German hardware-specialists at Hardwareluxx have tested the performance of Ryzen 7 and 9, as well as several Intel processors, on Windows 11 version 23H2 and 24H2 systems.
The takeaways:
- There are not any meaningful application performance gains.
- Some processors have performance gains in some games. The performance of Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X increased by 8% in Cyberpunk 2077.
- Performance gains go up to about 23% in some games and some processors.
- The testers recorded performance degradations in some games. Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Ryzen 5 7600X saw a drop by nearly 20% in F2 2024.
- Performance drops in some games and for some processors by almost 20%.
Hardware Unboxed ran tests as well, and they differ from the Hardwareluxx tests in one meaningful way: the testers did not notice any performance losses in their tests.
They tested the performance of the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and 7700X in more than 40 games on Windows 11 version 23H2 and 24H2.
Here is the video:
According to Hardware Unboxed, users will notice a performance gain between 10% (Zen4) and 11% (Zen5) on average on Windows 11 version 24H2 systems when playing games.
Closing Words
The tests contradict each other. It is possible that drops are recorded only in some games, and that Hardware Unboxed did not test these. More tests are needed to come to a final conclusion.
Most Windows 11 users will get the performance patch when they upgrade their devices to the upcoming feature update. Microsoft has not revealed a release date yet, but it should not be more than a month or two away at this point.
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