AMD Updates on Ryzen 9000 Gaming Performance, Revised Testing See Parity With Intel’s 14th Gen CPUs, Optimized Branch Prediction Update To Boost Games

AMD has published an update for its Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" Desktop CPUs in gaming applications & promised a new branch prediction code patch.

AMD's Revised Ryzen 9000 Game Benchmarks Showcase Performance Parity With Intel's 14th Gen Chips, Fine-Tuning Performance Through Windows 11 Branch Prediction Code Update

Following the kind of lackluster gaming performance that several reviewers including us saw in our test results, AMD has published a new blog to clear the air with its community. This all comes down to the disparities between AMD's official gaming performance numbers and the ones that we saw in actual reviews.

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So going back to the official figures, AMD claimed that the Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" CPUs had a 9% average performance uplift at 1080p versus the Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" CPUs and a 6% average performance uplift at 1080p versus the competition (Intel 14th Gen). The tests were averaged from 30+ games. The company confirmed that most of the games were tested using the in-game tool for benchmarking purposes which isn't always the best representation of game performance. It might be suitable for a specific scene but in areas where more action or gameplay is involved, that might be a different story as more processing is required on the CPU and GPU side.

AMD also discloses the internal testing hierarchy it used for its Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" CPUs. Both Intel and AMD chips were tested with DDR5-6000 while Intel's chips were set to the "Default" profile and that's ok considering that Intel itself recommended the use of default profiles before the release of its "0x129" BIOS patch which addressed stability issues. The BIOS patch launched on the 15th of August which is the same day AMD launched its Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900 CPUs so they had only the initial "reference" performance to