AMD improves Zen 5 CPU latency and performance with BIOS updates

/ Windows and BIOS updates are improving the Ryzen 9000-series performance situation.

By Tom Warren, a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.

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AMD is releasing new BIOS updates that will boost performance for its Ryzen 9600X / 9700X processors and address some latency issues. The performance improvements and latency reductions arrive around a month after disappointing Zen 5 desktop CPU reviews and appear alongside updates to Windows 11 that include optimized AMD-specific branch prediction for both Zen 4 and Zen 5 chips.

CPU reviewers have been reporting a higher-than-expected core-to-core latency across the Ryzen 9000-series

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