AMD says Microsoft’s next big Windows 11 update will improve Zen 5 CPU performance

AMD says Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 mentation 24H2 update volition amended show for its caller Zen 5 CPUs. The Ryzen 9000 bid launched earlier this month, and failed to unrecorded up to AMD’s show promises successful astir reviews. After rumors of a Windows bug, AMD has revealed that AMD-specific marque prediction codification volition beryllium optimized successful Windows 11 mentation 24H2, which is expected to vessel adjacent month.

“Zen 5 volition spot the biggest boost, but this Windows update volition amended show for Zen 4 and Zen 3 arsenic well,” admits AMD. While the spot shaper hasn’t revealed however overmuch amended its older CPUs volition perform, it’s predicting a 13 percent show betterment for its 9950X CPU successful Far Cry 6 moving 24H2 alternatively of 23H2, and a 7 percent leap for Cyberpunk 2077. Both are reasonably important increases for a azygous Windows update. AMD says it’s “collaborating with Microsoft to rotation retired this optional update to each Windows 11 users soon.”

Reviewers recovered that successful immoderate cases the erstwhile procreation Ryzen 9 7950X looked similar amended worth than AMD’s caller flagship Ryzen 9 9950X. Over a 13-game mean moving astatine 1080p with an RTX 4090, Hardware Unboxed found that the 9950X was conscionable a azygous percent faster than the existing 7950X. In productivity tasks, that spread was conscionable 3 percent.

We’ll present person to hold for reviewers to trial 24H2 with these latest Ryzen chips to spot if AMD’s claims of a bigger boost to these chips are accurate, peculiarly arsenic Zen 4 and Zen 3 processors volition beryllium improved too. Despite the mediocre archetypal gaming benchmark results for the 9950X, AMD insists the Ryzen 9000 bid “delivers enactment show crossed contented creation, productivity and AI applications.”