Windows 11 24H2: Up to 35 percent more FPS on AMD Ryzen after update

AMD itself announced a week ago that the Windows 11 24H2 update will help Ryzen CPUs achieve more performance within CPU limits in gaming, according to initial reports. Unboxed devices Sure. New benchmarks from the Aussies now show up to a 35 percent increase in FPS with the Ryzen 9000. The Ryzen 7000 is right behind. And the Intel Core?

What happened so far?

It was already two weeks ago. Unboxed devices He was the first to report that Ryzen CPUs deliver significant gaming performance gains when benchmarks are run in the current Windows 11 23H2 build under an administrator account — something neither the lab nor ComputerBase has done so far. The advice came from AMD.

On average, across 13 games, the Ryzen 7 9700X increased FPS (Full HD) by four percent. Could this be why the Ryzen 9000 doesn't quite hit AMD's benchmarks in global testing?

In response, AMD explained in a blog post that the admin account benchmarks actually use a code that will only be available to everyone running Windows 11 24H2, which the Ryzen 9000 with Zen 5 specifically benefits from. AMD justified the performance gains by saying that Windows 11 24H2 can better respond to the new architecture’s improved branch prediction. At the same time, the company explained that its predecessors, Zen 4 and Zen 3, will also benefit — and Intel’s Core CPUs won’t benefit at all.

In an update to its benchmark results, which also included benchmarks for the Ryzen 7 7700X with Zen 4 architecture, it showed: Unboxed devices I note that this architecture also benefits equally from benchmarks in the admin account. No, the discrepancy between AMD's previously released results and the results achieved in the Ryzen 9000 benchmarks is not explained by switching the admin account.

This is new

Unboxed devices After testing in the Windows 11 23H2 admin account, we now also looked at the Windows 11 24H2 ISO that Microsoft has already distributed to Windows Insiders – in more than 40 games. The Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 7 7700X were again compared at Full HD resolution, where there is already a CPU limit in many games when using the GeForce RTX 4090. The results are clear:

1. Both CPUs see a significant increase in FPS, averaging 11 (9700X) and 10 (7700X) percent respectively.
2. At the top (Gears 5) the increments are 35 (9700X) and 33 (7700X) respectively.
3. Zen 5 tends to benefit more from the update, but the difference from Zen 4 is small.
4. So far, the Intel Core has been tested in three games where Ryzen has benefited significantly: Cyberpunk 2077 and Far Cry 6 showed no increases, but Gears 5 did, with a 25 percent boost.

Questions remain unanswered

from Unboxed devices The performance gains are larger in more than a third of the games than AMD recently promised, with a 13 percent increase at best. Despite the results being repeatedly checked before publication, there is still a certain amount of skepticism among our colleagues from Australia. On the one hand, because the increases are so high, and on the other, because AMD didn’t talk about them more strongly – was it possible that the company was unaware of the significance of the changes?

There is also a question mark behind the gains that Intel Core will be able to show with the update. Three results are not enough to support or refute AMD’s statement that nothing will change with the new OS. Although two titles did not show any growth, Gears 5 did.