AMD boost’s Raven Ridge’s performance and smoothness with AGESA 1002a

In our AMD Ryzen/Raven Ridge APU Gaming Review (on Page 3), we noted that AMD’s Reven Ridge 2400G suffered from sudden frame time spikes on a frequent basis in Assassin’s Creed Origins, an issue which was caused by sudden drops in GPU clock speeds. This issue also affected AMD’s Raven Ridge 2200G to a lesser extent and is replicable on several other games where both the CPU and GPU portions of the system are stressed heavily, pointing towards the issue with AMD’s power management system. 

In our testing, we were able to mitigate the issue by forcing stock iGPU clock speeds within the BIOS, though now it looks like AMD has addressed the issue internally with their latest AGESA 1002a microcode update, which has now started to ship in new BIOSes. Below is a comment from AMD’s Ryzen Twitter page, announcing the release of this new AGESA update.