AMD 3000 users how often do you hit boost clocks?

Jacky60 · 31 Dec 2019 at 17:42

It's been about six months since the 3000 series launched. How many of you guys are hitting advertised boost clocks in games?
Few games, if any tax, a CPU all core 100% so can I have some feedback on how AGESA bios/Pbo etc is working now and whether two or three cores can ever realistically be expected to run at boost speeds in game?

gerardfraser · 31 Dec 2019 at 18:07

Me on different Ryzen CPU's,Cinebench single and PC Gaming.There has not been a game that I have not hit Max Boost clock.
I should also say over all agesa 1.0.0.3/1.0.0.3ab/1.0.0.3abba/1.0.0.4b
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Ryzen 3600X Precision Boost Overdrive Up To 4525Mhz

3800X 4650Mhz Boost Outlast 2

Phixsator · 31 Dec 2019 at 19:20

Never had an issue with hitting the single core boost of my 3600. Both on the F40 release bios on my B450 board and on the latest F42something (agesa 1.0.0.4).

TNA · 1 Jan 2020 at 05:02

On default stock settings I tend to hit it but most of the time see 4175MHz on light loads or 4Ghz or a little under under heavy loads.

With my 4.4GHz all core overclock at 1.275v I get 4.4GHz at all times under any type of loads and get lower temps to boot

Can do 4.5GHz all core also, but it ain't worth the extra volts required for 24/7 so I don't bother. Better to step back and cruise at 4.4GHz

Gripen90 · 1 Jan 2020 at 18:46

Hitting max boost clock ? that is a wide question. I hit 4.62GHz on a single core on my 3900X, and i hit 4.3GHz 8 core load boost clock. All 12 core load is 4.075GHz.

humbug · 2 Jan 2020 at 02:56

With the new 1004B BIOS i see it boost to 4.2Ghz (3600 rated boost speed) about 60% of the time in games, during hard encoding or rendering loads about 4.025 to 4.050Ghz.

Lolik · 2 Jan 2020 at 09:58

On pre-launch bios on b350, was constantly hitting 4.5GHz with 3700x (4.4 on the box) albeit with higher voltage and lower allcore no matter what, now often see 4.425GHz on AGESA 1.0.0.3ABBA bios, but allcore steadily holds 4.250-4.150 with the lower voltage and higher overall performance.

Panos · 2 Jan 2020 at 10:07

Jacky60 said:
It's been about six months since the 3000 series launched. How many of you guys are hitting advertised boost clocks in games?
Few games, if any tax, a CPU all core 100% so can I have some feedback on how AGESA bios/Pbo etc is working now and whether two or three cores can ever realistically be expected to run at boost speeds in game?

Since AGESA 1003 had no issue hitting advertised speed on the 3900X. And games like X4 which hitting hard 2 cores mainly, the speed is 4550-4600 at 100% load for hours. Rest of the cores fluctuate depending their 60-80% loads.

Woodsta888 · 2 Jan 2020 at 11:22

3800X here on a cheap X570 board ASRock phantom Gaming 4, ALL my cores will hit 4.55Ghz and a couple at 4.6Ghz. Older BIOS was better, could hit 4.6 on 5/8 cores. Couple these 3000 CPU's up with some high frequency RAM and you are golden for performance.

Jacky60 · 5 Jan 2020 at 08:00

Anecdotally it looks from these results that many of the CPUs are now hitting advertised speeds. However it may be that only owners
of chips that do reach advertised speeds are happy to respond to the question.

gpuerrilla · 5 Jan 2020 at 10:38

Jacky60 said:
Anecdotally it looks from these results that many of the CPUs are now hitting advertised speeds. However it may be that only owners
of chips that do reach advertised speeds are happy to respond to the question.

Lol, what do you want to see?

Glanza · 5 Jan 2020 at 12:11

Since switching to the 3600x from a 1700 but keeping my Crosshair VI it runs at 4350 / 4400 all the time whilst gaming.

Woodsta888 · 5 Jan 2020 at 12:29

Jacky60 said:
Anecdotally it looks from these results that many of the CPUs are now hitting advertised speeds. However it may be that only owners
of chips that do reach advertised speeds are happy to respond to the question.

Same as when Debauer did the poll, only people with CPU's that didn't reach the advertised speeds, bothered to reply.

humbug · 5 Jan 2020 at 12:56

Ya ^^^^ people only bother to say something when something is wrong.

champion1642 · 6 Jan 2020 at 03:13

My 3800X usually sits at around 4.4Ghz, task Manager reads it as 4.35Ghz for all cores (or 4.391-4.416Mhz to be precise), half of the cores hit 4.5Ghz though I'm not sure how often that is, or in what situation.

I'm just going by the readings in HWinfo. Note that I don't have PBO active, or any other setting, everything is pretty much default settings aside from RAM overclock.

apostolis_kt · 6 Jan 2020 at 10:14

I have seen only once 4.7GHz and 4.725GHz on two cores out of the 16 on my 3950x and that was in HWInfo so must have happened very quickly as I was checking ryzen master like a hawk when i was running CB20 and nothing popped that high.

Even in gaming i don't get that high spikes on any core based on MSI afterburner stats. Still trying to get the hang of it with this processor, mostly it is sitting on really low usage on gaming that i tried these days haha. Talk about a waste of resourses.

Can anyone recommend a good video converter application that is usable and will utilise a lot of the processor?

gpuerrilla · 6 Jan 2020 at 14:56

apostolis_kt said:
Can anyone recommend a good video converter application that is usable and will utilise a lot of the processor?

Handbrake or VLC.

apostolis_kt · 6 Jan 2020 at 15:12

Th0nt said:
Handbrake or VLC.

I didn't know vlc could convert as well, i will give it a try.

I used handbrake but I probably am doing something wrong, I was converting a video 4k file that my tv doesn't support through the usb drive, to something the tv likes and the app crashed. I might try it again or see a tutorial.

gpuerrilla · 6 Jan 2020 at 15:16

I found a handful of old movies I filmed last week saved in a horrible format. They werent too long in length but was a great workout for watching the cores do some real work.

apostolis_kt · 6 Jan 2020 at 15:43

Th0nt said:
I found a handful of old movies I filmed last week saved in a horrible format. They werent too long in length but was a great workout for watching the cores do some real work.

Just felt I wanted to utilise the cores because the games I run so far didn't do much, GPU is 100% and CPU is less than 6% and possibly not many cores utilised. Plus I have loads of videos in stupid formats as well.