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

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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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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
 
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.
 
LeRoy_Blanchard said:
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.
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That's already done in Windows. J2C covered this.
 
Kind of the same and there's an update about a month later regarding BIOS fixes.

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Oh geebus... yea avoiding gigabyte because I doubt this will be their last try and they will just use this to learn how to hide their back doors better.

Actually a shame I've always liked that brand before.
 
That's an odd list of mobo's. You'd think it would include an entire line, but it doesn't. I don't see my X570 Aorus Ultra listed, but the Elite is.
 
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