AMD AGESA update 1.0.0.6 - Do BIOS updates matter?
3DMARK Performance
Published: 27th May 2017 | Source: OC3D Internal testing | Price: |
3DMARK
While the memory performance changed with this new update have been minor, there has certainly been an impact on our 3DMARK results, which while small are very welcome given the fact that there are no hardware changes within our test system.
The performance changes here account for a less than 1% but are consistent across all of our 3DMARK Fire Strike bench runs, which is a welcome change for those who crave higher benchmark scores.
When using Futuremark's newer DirectX 12 based 3DMARK Time Spy test we see an even larger performance improvement than our Fire Strike tests. This is only a 2.3% performance gain, but that is a significant boost considering that there are no hardware changes present in our test system.
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Originally Posted by stealth80
Shame you didn't run those gaming benches with faster ram. The main selling point of Agesa 1006 is access to faster than 3200mhz ram speeds and as we all know - that has a massive effect on the latency across the infinity fabric, especially in gaming.
Any chance of running those 3 games @ 1080P again with maybe 3400, 3600 and 4000mhz ram? Of course that is if the board/CPU are actually able to run the ram at those speeds. |
To put it simply this testing is to see if there are any performance benefits from this new update without any hardware changes. From here we will be looking deeper into this new BIOS options and conduct further testing to see where we can gain additional performance.
This testing will act as a platform from which more in-depth testing can be done, hopefully allowing everyone to learn a little more about Ryzen in the process.Quote
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Originally Posted by WYP
This is something that we are looking into. Sadly right now we do not have faster DDR4 to test with, but we are working on acquiring some.
To put it simply this testing is to see if there are any performance benefits from this new update without any hardware changes. From here we will be looking deeper into this new BIOS options and conduct further testing to see where we can gain additional performance. This testing will act as a platform from which more in-depth testing can be done, hopefully allowing everyone to learn a little more about Ryzen in the process. |
Nice, thanks!
In the meantime, I will just sit here and wait for Agesa 1006 to release for the Gigabyte Gaming 5, contrary to some articles online, the current beta bios for gaming 5 is based on Agesa 1005
Quote3000-3200Mhz memory is still likely to be the sweet spot though. That's what I predict anyway. And even if performance scales well past 3200Mhz, the price increase, the low availability, and the high timings for high speed memory might put people off.Quote
I'm running 3466 MHz stable, 3600 Mhz stable for all but stress tests.
Oh and by the way, unless those Corsair sticks are Hynix chips, you should probably not be using 9945, which is really for 4 sticks or some HYnix cases. The recommended version for two sticks of Samsung would be 9943, which should result in better results.Quote
Oh and by the way, unless those Corsair sticks are Hynix chips, you should probably not be using 9945, which is really for 4 sticks or some HYnix cases. The recommended version for two sticks of Samsung would be 9943, which should result in better results.Quote
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Any chance of running those 3 games @ 1080P again with maybe 3400, 3600 and 4000mhz ram? Of course that is if the board/CPU are actually able to run the ram at those speeds.Quote