***The Official Ryzen 3700X Overclocking thread***

[Dirk Diggler]

4.3

Nope

I'm not seeing 4.4 boost clock either; 4.3.

Are you both on x470 or x570?

 

[easyrider]

I'm on X570

Could someone run Geekbench 4 please I need to Know if my 3700x is performing as it should. Below is my score all stock windows balanced power mode.

 

[ljt]

That's my 3700x on default but with 3600Mhz memory, on Ryzen balanced power plan, so not sure if that will make a difference

 

[z10m]

That's my 3700x on default but with 3600Mhz memory, on Ryzen balanced power plan, so not sure if that will make a difference

someone on here mentioned that ryzen balanced gives better performance than windows balanced.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

That's my 3700x on default but with 3600Mhz memory, on Ryzen balanced power plan, so not sure if that will make a difference

Another one that doesn't hit the advertised max boost of 4.4?

 

[easyrider]

Another one that doesn't hit the advertised max boost of 4.4?

I seriously thinking in returning my X570...mobo I just don’t think its worth £260...something doesn’t feel right I was getting better performance with my B450 mobo.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I seriously thinking in returning my X570...mobo I just don’t think its worth £260...something doesn’t feel right I was getting better performance with my B450 mobo.

I'm actually thinking of returning the 3700x. It's not operating as described and I don't see how that's acceptable or even legal from a consumer law point of view.

 

[z10m]

Another one that doesn't hit the advertised max boost of 4.4?

I havent seen one that does yet.

When der8auer pointed out that none of his ryzen 3000 cpus (10 or so) reached the advertised boost clock people called him intel shill.

 

[easyrider]

I'm actually thinking of returning the 3700x. It's not operating as described and I don't see how that's acceptable or even legal from a consumer law point of view.

Yeah..have you run Geekbench to check what fastest speed it reached was ?

 

[ljt]

Another one that doesn't hit the advertised max boost of 4.4?

It's a known issue with AGESA 1.0.0.3. I've been conversing with AsRock support. They can reproduce the issue, and have had a look and said it's something in the AGESA causing it, as mine originally boosted to 4.4Ghz on single core workloads, and all cores managed to hit that individually at some point on AGESA 1.0.0.1, but now none do, with it maxing 4.375Ghz on about 3 or 4 cores, the rest are 4.350/4.325.

They are raising an issue direct with AMD about it, as it's across the board, not chipset specific.

Edit. I'll re run the benchmark with 3200Mhz memory to see if it makes any difference.

 

[easyrider]

It's a known issue with AGESA 1.0.0.3. I've been conversing with AsRock support. They can reproduce the issue, and have had a look and said it's something in the AGESA causing it, as mine originally boosted to 4.4Ghz on single core workloads, and all cores managed to hit that individually at some point on AGESA 1.0.0.1, but now none do, with it maxing 4.375Ghz on about 3 or 4 cores, the rest are 4.350/4.325.

They are raising an issue direct with AMD about it, as it's across the board, not chipset specific.

Edit. I'll re run the benchmark with 3200Mhz memory to see if it makes any difference.

Will that be 3200mhz CAS 14 ?

 

[ljt]

Will that be 3200mhz CAS 14 ?

Sorry chap, didn't see this until after I ran it. Those results are with 3200Mhz cl16-16-16-36-52 (basically my 3600Mhz timings, i just lowered the clock)

I've also checked the AGESA you're on with that MSI board is actually 2 AGESA behind mine. (yours is 1.0.0.3A, where as mine is 1.0.0.3ABB, so there could be efficiency improvements causing slightly higher scores)

This geekbench seems very memory clock dependent too, so I'd stick with CB15/20 for pure CPU testing, as scores have changed quite a bit by changing nothing but memory clock

 

[easyrider]

Sorry chap, didn't see this until after I ran it. Those results are with 3200Mhz cl16-16-16-36-52 (basically my 3600Mhz timings, i just lowered the clock)

I've also checked the AGESA you're on with that MSI board is actually 2 AGESA behind mine. (yours is 1.0.0.3A, where as mine is 1.0.0.3ABB, so there could be efficiency improvements causing slightly higher scores)

This geekbench seems very memory clock dependent too, so I'd stick with CB15/20 for pure CPU testing, as scores have changed quite a bit by changing nothing but memory clock

Looks to be in the same ball park as me then with the 3200 Ram.

Whats annoying is I keep getting different Cinebench scores ranging from 2037 to 1791

 

[ljt]

Looks to be in the same ball park as me then with the 3200 Ram.

Whats annoying is I keep getting different Cinebench scores ranging from 2037 to 1791

I also get varying CB scores, although not to the extent of your lowest score. I don't think I've seen it go below 2030ish.

Was there anything else using CPU cycles when you scored 1791? even something like having chrome open, or HWInfo poling the hardware causes my score to drop a little bit. To get my highest scores I have to have nothing open but CB.

 

[easyrider]

I also get varying CB scores, although not to the extent of your lowest score. I don't think I've seen it go below 2030ish.

Was there anything else using CPU cycles when you scored 1791? even something like having chrome open, or HWInfo poling the hardware causes my score to drop a little bit. To get my highest scores I have to have nothing open but CB.

Ill check but I'm not enjoying this so far...

Just copied my settings from DRam Calc and clocked my 3200mhz to 3600mhz and got

Guess what?

A lower score

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Yeah..have you run Geekbench to check what fastest speed it reached was ?

I'm having a few beers just now, will run it later or tomorrow.

I don't think this can be described as anything other than glorified beta testing. It pains me to say it as this is an AMD bench thread, but Intel would get crucified for a release like this.

p.s. Asus have released a BIOS update for my board; I'll flash that tomorrow and see what difference it makes.

 

[Yaayuh!]

I'm having a few beers just now, will run it later or tomorrow.

I don't think this can be described as anything other than glorified beta testing. It pains me to say it as this is an AMD bench thread, but Intel would get crucified for a release like this.

I pre-ordered the 1800x (£489!), have been using several Ryzen builds since and praised them, I currenly have a 3600, 3700X and the 1800X got swapped out for the 3900X.

Yet, despite my enthusiasm and support for AMD, I too feel your pain and agree with your sentiment on this release.

 

[easyrider]

I'm having a few beers just now, will run it later or tomorrow.

I don't think this can be described as anything other than glorified beta testing. It pains me to say it as this is an AMD bench thread, but Intel would get crucified for a release like this.

p.s. Asus have released a BIOS update for my board; I'll flash that tomorrow and see what difference it makes.

Cheers mate

I'm seriously considering sending both back ad getting a B450 and 2600 for like £200

The only thing stopping me is the chance of a 3900 x ordered on the 20th July

 

[ljt]

Ill check but I'm not enjoying this so far...

Just copied my settings from DRam Calc and clocked my 3200mhz to 3600mhz and got

Guess what?

A lower score

I'm guessing that's more down to unstable ram timings causing instability, as when the ram is unstable it will error correct and lower overall system performance. Before running geekbench with the O/C on the ram I'd try for at least 400% HCI memtest.

At least you know it's not underperforming at stock, as with my memory at 3200Mhz and CPU stock with no PBO we get very similar scores.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Cheers mate

I'm seriously considering sending both back ad getting a B450 and 2600 for like £200

The only thing stopping me is the chance of a 3900 x ordered on the 20th July

Here's some results.

2501 BIOS
Memory 3600 C16
Stock clocks
Windows balanced powerplan (build 17763)

*I've got a BIOS update and OS update (to 1903) to complete; I'll do that tomorrow and post updated results.