Microsoft’s next big Windows 11 update significantly improves Ryzen gaming performance

AMD promised that Microsoft’s upcoming 24H2 update to Windows 11 would amended performance for its caller Ryzen 9000 bid CPUs, but it’s besides giving a important boost to immoderate older Ryzen CPUs. Hardware Unboxed has tested the Zen 4-based Ryzen 7 7700X and the caller Ryzen 7 9700X (Zen 5) connected some Windows 11 mentation 23H2 and 24H2 and recovered a important show summation acknowledgment to Microsoft’s OS update.

On average, Hardware Unboxed found an betterment of 10 percent crossed aggregate games moving astatine 1080p solution connected the older Ryzen 7700X moving Windows 11 mentation 24H2. On the latest Ryzen 9700X, Windows 11 24H2 provides an 11 percent show betterment connected mean successful the aforesaid crippled tests. KitGuru has besides tested AMD’s champion gaming CPU, the 7800X3D, and recovered akin increases successful immoderate games, alongside improvements to the older Ryzen 9 7950X acknowledgment to Windows 11 mentation 24H2.

The caller benchmark results travel conscionable weeks aft AMD launched its Zen 5 desktop CPUs, which failed to impressment during aboriginal reviews. Reviewers recovered that successful gaming the erstwhile procreation Ryzen 9 7950X looked similar amended worth than AMD’s caller flagship Ryzen 9 9950X.

Windows 11 24H2 volition surely amended the show of these caller Zen 5 CPUs, but since it’s besides improving older Zen 4 processors, the show spread inactive seems to beryllium a small disappointing betwixt the 2 architectures. Microsoft’s 24H2 update is thing but disappointing for Ryzen owners though, arsenic it virtually allows them to download amended show for their CPUs.

We’re expecting Microsoft to merchandise its 24H2 update for Windows 11 successful precocious September, but if you privation to drawback it aboriginal you tin opt into the Windows Insider program and alteration the Release Preview builds connected your PC. If you’d similar to cleanable instal oregon execute the upgrade manually, ISO files for 24H2 are disposable here.