MSI's Latest BIOS Update Boosts AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Gaming Performance by 10%
TapTechNews August 10th news, the tech media WccFtech released a blog post yesterday (August 9th), stating that MSI's latest BIOS update for AM5 motherboards can increase the gaming performance of AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors by 10%.
New BIOS Update
MSI released the latest AGESA 1.2.0.0a BIOS update for AM5 motherboards. In addition to supporting Ryzen 9000 series processors and improving the EXPO OPP and CurveShaper functions standard on AM5 motherboards, it also introduced exclusive functions such as MemoryTryIt and High-Efficiency mode to allow users to further optimize performance.
Test Platform
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
Mainboard: MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk WIFI
Memory: 2 x Galax HOF Pro D5-7200 16GB, 2 x Kingston FURY Beast DDR5-6000 16GB
Graphics card: MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB SUPRIM X
CPU cooler: MSI MAG CORELIQUID I360
Power supply: MSI MEGA i1000P PCIE5
System: Windows 11 23H2 Professional Edition
Memory Configuration
Stock – DDR5-4800 CL40-39-39-77
EXPO – DDR5-6000 CL36-38-38-80
AMD OPP – DDR5-6000 CL30-38-38-96
MemoryTryIt! – DDR5-6000 CL28-35-35-60
Test Results
AMD OPP is designed specifically for memory modules using Hynix chips and provides an overclocking profile of DDR5-6000 CL30-38-38-96.
MSI stated that compared to the default configuration, the game performance of the OPP mode can be increased by up to 17%, and the latency can be reduced by up to 19%.
Compared to the standard EXPO configuration file, the OPP mode loads the best configuration file for memory modules using Hynix memory, which can reduce the latency by 5% and increase the game performance by 2%.
TapTechNews attached the test results as follows:
AMD OPP (DDR5-6000): Game performance is 13% higher than the default.
AMD OPP (DDR5-6000): Game performance is 5% higher than EXPO.
AMD OPP+High Efficiency Mode (DDR5-6000): Game performance is 8% higher than OPP.
AMD OPP+High Efficiency Mode+TryIt (DDR5-6000): Game performance is 10% higher than OPP.
AMD OPP+High Efficiency Mode+TryIt (DDR5-6000): Game performance is 13% higher than EXPO.
AMD OPP+High Efficiency Mode+TryIt (DDR5-6000): Game performance is 21% higher than the default.