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Hey everyone, hope you're having a wonderful day, and if you're not, I've got a little something for you to make it better. You probably watched one of my previous videos where I tested all Windows and BIOS optimizations so we can
Comprehensive testing of Windows and BIOS optimizations for AMD Ryzen CPUs reveals up to 48% FPS boost and significant input lag reduction.
Key Takeaways
- Many traditional Windows and BIOS tweaks have little to no effect on modern Ryzen systems.
- Enabling virtualization (SVM) and using PBO for Ryzen can yield significant FPS and temperature improvements.
- Disabling certain Windows features like Game Bar can harm performance rather than help.
- Memory profiles like XMP and EXPO are important for maximizing RAM performance on Ryzen.
- Balanced Nvidia settings work better for Ryzen GPUs than highest performance presets used for Intel.
What the video covers
- The video tests over 20 Windows and BIOS optimizations specifically for AMD Ryzen processors to identify real FPS improvements.
- Benchmarks were conducted using Fortnite, Valorant, and Counter-Strike 2 with multiple runs to ensure accuracy.
- Ryzen 9 outperformed a 14th gen Intel CPU by 25-50% FPS at stock settings, even beating an overclocked Intel chip.
- Virtualization (SVM) provided a 9.6% average FPS boost, while other tweaks like disabling C-States showed no significant gains.
- PBO overclocking and undervolting Ryzen gave up to 9.4% FPS boost and lowered CPU temperature by 10°C.
- Disabling Windows Game Bar decreased FPS; enabling XMP/EXPO memory profiles improved low FPS by up to 8.8%.
- Balanced Nvidia control panel settings performed better on Ryzen compared to Intel's highest performance mode.
- Resizable BAR had minimal FPS impact but is recommended for demanding games.
- Overall, the recommended settings delivered up to 48% FPS increase and reduced input lag by 33%.
- The creator invites viewers to join their Discord community for further discussion and support.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Ryzen vs Intel comparison
- 00:36Benchmark setup and system specs
- 02:24Virtualization and memory isolation impact
- 03:10Windows features and BIOS tweaks tested
- 04:08Process Lasso and priority settings
- 05:40Windows Defender, timer resolution, and power plans
- 06:28Nvidia control panel and visual effects
- 07:12Interrupt modes, RAM profiles, and BIOS modes
- 08:56Final results, input lag, and Discord announcement
- 09:21Closing remarks
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finally figure out what actually gives an FPS boost and what's just recycled content from the Stone Age that doesn't work on newer systems. However, that video was Intel specific, so a lot of people using AMD felt left out and asked me to
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make part two. So of course, I went and grabbed an Ryzen chip so I can show some love to my people, people from Team Red. Now, I know some of you might think, "Yeah, sure, 1,000 FPS, this must be clickbait." I
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assure you it's not. I was a little skeptical too, especially looking at UserBenchmark telling people the Ryzen chip I just got is 1% worse than my 14th gen Intel. The 13600K and 14600K still deliver almost unparalleled real-world
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gaming performance for around $200. Shut the fuck up, let me die in peace. In the last video, we tested the 17 most common optimizations, and after your suggestions for this video, we've got more than 20, so let's get to the details. We'll be using
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CapFrameX to capture the FPS and frame times, LatencyMon for the driver latencies, and Nvidia FrameView so we can see the total PC latency before and after. For the sake of replicating the first video, we'll use aggregated
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benchmark results from Fortnite, Valorant, and Counter-Strike 2. Each setting was tested three times to avoid run variance, and here's my new system specs. Okay, I'm done with the yapping. Let's see the disclaimer, but without further ado, let's
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jump straight into the video. I just want to start by saying that the new Ryzen 9 chip got us between 25 and 50% FPS boost over my old 14th gen Intel. Both were benchmarked on a fresh Windows install
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with default BIOS settings. It was actually so bad that even a fully optimized and 6 GHz overclocked Intel couldn't match the default Ryzen chip, as it still had the lead with up to 13.5% more FPS at stock. Hope that helped
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some of you guys that are looking to upgrade your system but are not sure what to get. Now, let's start with virtualization or SVM, which also controls memory isolation within Windows. It gave us 9.6% FPS boost on average,
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2.7% on the 1% low, and minus 3% on the 2% lows. I didn't really notice any stuttering or major drops in the game, and I believe the 2% reading is incorrect, so feel free to disregard it for now. Next, we've got spread spectrum
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and base clock frequency. It gave us no average FPS boost but improved our 1% and 2% lows by up to 11.7%. Next up is good old Game Mode. It gave us a 1% FPS boost on average, 1.7% on the 1% lows, and 1.5% on the 2%
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lows. Disabling C-States gave us no significant FPS boost, and I personally keep it on to save some power on idle. Broke boy problems. Disabling HAGS didn't really affect our average FPS but did improve the 1% and 2% lows by up to 2
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.8%. Disabling Windows Game Bar on the system actually decreased our FPS by up to 3.6%. I know it shouldn't be disabled for Ryzen chips with two CCDs, but mine only has one, so it didn't make much sense to
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me. Setting the value of 36 decimal for Win32 priority separation gave us up to 7.7% FPS boost on the 1% lows. You can also try setting a value of 40, which has the least input lag in my
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opinion. The results of debloating Windows were kind of questionable, so I'll just call it run variance, but hey, at least we no longer have telemetry and Candy Crush on our PC. Using the PBO settings shown on the screen to overclock and undervolt our
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Ryzen chip gave us up to 9.4% FPS boost. On top of that, the CPU temperature dropped by about 10° C. Now that's a win-win. Disabling the first processor core in Process Lasso gave us no FPS boost on average, but we saw a
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significant improvement by up to 8% in the 1% and 2% lows. I'll make a video explaining how to fully configure Process Lasso very soon. Please make sure you're subscribed with notifications on so you don't miss it. Running the game in
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high versus normal priority didn't make a big difference, and it's within the margin of error. However, if you're running other apps in the background with higher than normal priority, this might help make your game smoother. Dynamic thread priority boost
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didn't give us any significant FPS boost, but it did help with some micro-stuttering issues I had in the past. Performance mode and Process Lasso, which essentially just sets the bits to the highest performance power plan, didn't do much, and it falls within the
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margin of error. However, it does help with reducing driver latency, just like using high performance and unparking your cores. I have a video on this if you'd like to check it out. We already had memory isolation turned off
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beforehand, so turning off Windows Defender itself didn't make a noticeable difference. I also recommend keeping it running on your computer as it won't change much performance-wise and will leave you vulnerable to many exploits if you remove it. I also tested timer
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resolution again to see if the results are any different when using a Ryzen chip, and well, it wasn't. What a surprise. I also retested high performance versus balanced power plans just because I heard balanced works best for Ryzen processors. Short answer, with
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the newest BIOS and in the games tested, this doesn't seem to be the case. But now let's test full screen optimizations. Disabling them gave us no increase in average FPS but got a tiny boost on the 1% and 2% lows. The games also felt
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smoother overall. Surprisingly, on the Ryzen chip, we've got better results with the balanced Nvidia control panel settings, unlike the previous video where we tested the same on an Intel chip and got up to 2.2% FPS boost with the
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highest performance settings. Now, I'm not sure if this has anything to do with Intel and Nvidia simply working better together or anything of this sort, but I'll retest every single option in the control panel in another video so we can
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figure out what really gives a performance boost. Anyway, turning off all Windows visual effects like transparency and animations gave us a 1.7% FPS boost on the 1% lows, which is well within the margin of error, and I would personally
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ignore that. Once again, we saw no major difference when using MSI or line-based interrupts mode. Additionally, most modern GPUs will come with MSI mode enabled by default. I recommend you keep it that way as it will generally work better in most
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games. I also tried turning XMP and AMD EXPO on, and both of them gave us exactly the same results with up to 8.8% FPS boost on the 0.2% lows. Make sure it's on in your BIOS so you can get the
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full performance from your RAM. Enabling Game Mode or Turbo Mode in the BIOS will only leave you with the physical cores running. It will also overclock your CPU by about 200 MHz. I recommend you use the PBO settings we mentioned instead of the
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Game Mode setting. Turning on high efficiency mode, which in turn overclocks the RAM timings on top of using EXPO, didn't give us a noticeable FPS boost. Some people report slightly better memory latency of about 10 ns, which you
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already know makes absolutely no difference in gaming. Enabling and forcing Resizable BAR for the games tested didn't do much FPS-wise; however, it will help more in some demanding titles, so just keep it on for now. Oh look, it's that time, the time for
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the before and after results, and while we didn't reach a thousand frames per second, we were really close with an FPS boost of up to 48% when using the recommended settings from the video. We also saw a huge input lag decrease of
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33%, which might be even more significant on low-end PCs. And here's my driver latencies after applying the recommended settings from the video. Now that we're done with all of this, I'll hold on to my promises and announce the Discord link
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for our server. It's now officially open for everyone, and I'd love, love to have you there. And if you want me to optimize your PC, including these tweaks and many more, please visit my website at Framsynclabs.com. But hey, enough
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self-pro.
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watching love you all and I'll see you in the next one
Topics:AMD RyzenWindows optimizationBIOS settingsFPS boostgaming benchmarksPBO overclockingXMP EXPONvidia control panelinput lag reductionProcess Lasso
