AMD’s new 1003ABBA AGESA code aims to address Ryzen boost clock woes

AMD is ready to tackle the odd boost behaviours of their Ryzen 3rd Generation processors. Thanks to new AGESA code, AMD is ready to help their users reach the rated performance levels of their processors and offer more performance in some workloads. 

Some users of AMD’s Ryzen 3rd Generation processors were shocked to learn that their processors never reached AMD’s rated boost clock speeds; often sitting 25-75MHz below AMD’s official specifications. While these clock speed differences are minor, they are lower than what AMD advertised, leaving end-users feeling cheated.  

Now, AMD has released a new AGESA update called 1003ABBA, which is now available in beta BIOS files from multiple motherboard manufacturers. Finalised BIOS files will become available in the near future across all motherboard manufacturers. This will likely happen within the next 2-3 weeks. 

AMD says that these new BIOS files can increase the performance of burst workloads, such as what is present in PCMARK 10 and the Kracken Javascript Benchmark. This is due to 25-50MHz increases in boost clock frequencies under AMD’s new AGESA update.

Within their Ryzen performance update, AMD stated that the performance regressions found in some recent AGESA versions were not made due to CPU longevity reasons. AMD confirmed that these changes were designed to increase CPU stability, primarily to prevent monitoring applications from forcing their CPUs into high performance/voltage modes.