GIGABYTE Says Its X3D Turbo Mode Allows Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs to Achieve Similar Gaming Performance as Their X3D Versions

[Tsing]

X3D Turbo Mode, a new feature that is is designed to maximize gaming performance on X870E, X870, and 600 series motherboards with AMD Ryzen 7000X3D and 9000 series processors, features unique optimization parameters that allow even Ryzen 9000 non-X3D processors to achieve similar gaming performance levels as their X3D counterparts, according to a recent press release that GIGABYTE shared about how X3D Turbo Mode is coming to "revolutionize gaming performance."

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[Zarathustra]

So what if you use this turbo mode on an actual x3d chip?

 

[Burticus]

so does it just throw an extra 100 watts at the cpu and crank up the speed or what? doesn't make much sense to me

 

[Burticus]

So what if you use this turbo mode on an actual x3d chip?

I assume that will detonate your CPU??

 

[magoo]

LoL....AISnatch.....

 

[Zarathustra]

This was maybe not so surprising:

I've tested Asus' new Turbo Game Mode for AMD CPUs and my verdict is simple: Don't use it

When worse is supposed to be better but turns out to actually be worse. Or the same. Which is essentially still worse.

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I have never encountered a BIOS auto-optimization feature that was worth enabling.

 

[LeRoy_Blanchard]

Pretty sure all this does is disable one of the CCD's in a dual CCD setup. So the CPU acts as a single CCD setup. For the X3D SKU's it disables the non-X3D CCD and only activates the X3D one. Thus the game/app doesn't have to worry about using the CCD without the L3 3D cache. This helps increase performance since Windows sucks at scheduling.

With one of the CCDs disabled, on a non-X3D chip the active CCD can probably clock a good bit more thus providing performance in the way of clock speed increase as well.


...and since it's Gigabyte, it probably wont effect the Chinese backdoor.