As promised, so kept. AMD had announced that the next major Windows update would bring a significant gaming performance boost to its new processors, and recent tests seem to show that the deal has been honored. But apparently, the company has gone even further: the previous generation seems to be covered as well, and all gamers sailing under the orange flag will be entitled to a serious boost without spending a single cent.
To put things in context, AMD fans were expecting the moon from the new generation of Ryzen 9000 processors, in the middle of a period where Lisa Su’s company seemed perfectly positioned to deal a terrible blow to a struggling Intel. Unfortunately, the soufflé fell slightly when the first benchmarks arrived. Testers revealed that the performance gain over the excellent Ryzen 7000 was not as substantial as expected, leading some analysts to question the maturity of the Zen 5 architecture — THE big news of this generation.
But if you’re one of those disappointed by this mixed launch, don’t panic: everything indicates that the tide is turning. AMD had promised that the next major Windows update, called 24H2, would put Zen 5 chips back on track, and the chipmaker seems to have kept its word.
A double-digit performance gain
That’s the conclusion that emerges after the latest benchmarks from Hardware Unboxed, a source that is generally among the most reliable in the industry. In its latest video published on YouTube, the team put the brand new Ryzen 7 9700X to the test. It analyzed its performance before and after the 24H2 update on several dozen games, and the results were quite spectacular.
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Judge for yourself: on average, the Windows 11 242 machine displayed an impressive +11% in-game performance compared to the one running Windows 11 23H2, the current update!
Of course, we’ll have to wait for more tests to know if this trend also concerns the rest of the range. But it would be very surprising if the 9700X was the only processor concerned. So this is excellent news for all those who rushed to Buy the new Ryzen as soon as it was released. Those who are considering a platform change will also be able to take good note.
Ryzen 7000 also affected!
But the cherry on the cake is that these results came with another piece of good news that was much more unexpected. For the sake of it, HardwareUnboxed also tested an older-generation processor, the Ryzen 7700X, under the same conditions. And even though AMD’s announcement only concerned the 9000 series, it turns out that this Zen 4 chip also benefited from the update, with an average performance boost of 10% on a plethora of games!
The same observation is made by KitGuru, another renowned benchmark that has observed comparable gains on other Ryzen 7000s. We can notably mention the Ryzen 9 7950X, but also and especially the 7800X3D. The Price/performance ratio of the latter, which was already considered the best gaming CPU on the market with a significant lead, becomes downright fabulous under Windows 11 24H2.
We can therefore imagine that all AMD gamers will be eager to benefit from this update. However, we will have to wait a little longer, because the deployment is expected at the end of September or the beginning of October. However, the most impatient can speed up the process by joining the Windows Insiders program, which allows you to benefit from Microsoft’s updates in advance.
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