AMD Ryzen Zen 5 processors just received a performance boost on AM5 MSI motherboards as the company released a new BIOS update that implements a new overclocking mode.
The BIOS update was originally discovered by WCCFTech and is BIOS version AGESA 1.2.0.1, which includes the new “105W TDP” power mode. As you can probably already expect, the new mode increases the overall power available to the CPU, in this case AMD’s mid-range Ryzen 9000 processors – the Ryzen 9700X and Ryzen 9600X. Normally these processors run at 65W, meaning this mode increases power consumption by 60%, but how much performance does that add?
The new mode was tested in Cinebench R23 and on the Ryzen 9700X the multi-core score was 23,153, which is quite a step up from the 20,409 score in 65W mode. The discrepancy between the two scores suggests a 13% performance increase, but that’s not representative of every task or especially gaming.
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Cinebench R23 is a synthetic benchmark and not determinative of real-world testing scenarios like gaming performance, but with a lot more power available to CPUs, we should see a slight increase in all gaming benchmarks. Notably, AMD will not allow motherboard manufacturers to simply push more power through the CPU to boost average performance above the next price-tier CPU, as that would channel the product stack. That means the Ryzen 9700X will never be faster than the Ryzen 9800X, and with that in mind, I would predict that this BIOS update will deliver less than a 5% or less performance increase in gaming.
