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Some AMD Ryzen users can get free Windows performance boost with this simple system tweak

Sayan Sen — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 13:22:01 +0000

AMD Ryzen processor owners, especially X3D ones, may be in for a pleasant surprise as a simple tweak to one of their system settings can help boost performance. Read more...

Windows 11 VMs on Linux to perform faster on Intel's 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th Gen CPUs

Sayan Sen — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 23:08:01 +0000

Intel's newer processors featuring the hybrid Big-Bigger core design are set to get a performance boost soon on Windows 11 guest VMs on Linux. An Intel engineer has explained how via a recent patch. Read more...

AMD fixes Windows 11 Modern Standby Ryzen wake issue with latest chipset driver

Sayan Sen — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 22:14:01 +0000

AMD issued a chipset driver this week after a fairly long time. The release notes were published later and there are several improvements including a fix for Modern Standby wake issue on Windows 11. Read more...

Following Windows 11, AMD Ryzen getting performance-efficiency boost in Linux

Sayan Sen — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 08:46:01 +0000

AMD recently released chipset drivers for Windows which are optimized for Ryzen 7000X3D chips and boost performance-per-watt. A new CPPC patch reveals power efficiency gains are also coming to Linux. Read more...

Windows 11 22H2 can't keep up with Linux 6.0 and Ubuntu 22.10 on AMD Ryzen 7950X

Sayan Sen — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:44:01 +0000

Windows 11 22H2 has been tested against the Linux kernel 6.0 running on Ubuntu 22.10. The test candidate was an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X system and just like last time, Linux has once again triumphed. Read more...

AMD's recent 21.4.1 mega driver apparently lowers power draw by up to 72%

Sayan Sen — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:46:01 +0000

AMD's 21.4.1 Adrenalin driver that launched recently has a lot of new and cool features. The new driver apparently also reduces the power draw of the latest Radeon GPUs by a ton when not gaming. Read more...