AMD has released their third Ryzen community update in order to improve the performance of their latest CPUs. This new update is focused on Windows 10 power plans, AMD has created their own profile caller "AMD Ryzen Balanced power plan". This new power plan allows Ryzen to react faster under load.


In case you don't remember, AMD had recommended to use the "High Performance power plan" in order to kill aggressive core parking which happend in combination with Ryzen processors on Windows 10. However, keeping a system on this plan disables quite a lot of Windows' power-saving features and can lead to higher system power consumption. With the Ryzen Balanced plan, AMD offers a little compromise.

The new profile is available on AMD website and the installation process is very easy. If you want try the new power plan, you have to extract this file (Ryzen_Balanced_Plan.ppkg) and then confirm the installation after clicking on the file and accepting the prompt. This new power profile will then be added to your power plan options. According to AMD, the gaming performance with the Ryzen Balanced plan should be pretty close to what you can have with the High Performance setting.

AMD has done several tests and the difference between Ryzen Balanced and High Performance should be negligible and close to 1%.

On April 11th AMD will release a new version of their Ryzen Master monitoring tool, which will come with two updates that should improve the Ryzen user experience. The first change affects the thermal offset on AMD's Ryzen 1800X, 1700X and 1600X processors. AMD will remove the thermal offset, which will make the cores report the correct temperature.

Furthermore AMD will remove the need for HPET when installing or using Ryzen Master in combination with a motherboard with AGESA version 1.0.0.4 or higher. This way users can use Ryzen Master without HPET. Since HPET is known to reduce Ryzen's performance this change is very welcome.







Source: AMD