At the end of last week, AMD released a new version of the AGESA firmware for its motherboards and processors (version 1.2.0.2A) that included a specific “turbo” mode to boost gaming performance on the company’s processors, even if they are not from the X3D range with this type of cache.
We soon began to see its arrival in the form of new BIOS versions from motherboard manufacturers, and now it is Gigabyte’s turn, which has announced the availability of new BIOSes that add this AMD feature to its motherboards.
In this way, the motherboards with AMD B650, A620, X670 chipsets and the most recent ones with the AMD X870 and AMD X870E They already have new BETA variants of their BIOS available with support for the Turbo X3D that allows extra performance in games on AMD processors
What this technology does is disable SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading, similar to Intel’s HyperThreading technology that is capable of creating two execution threads for each physical core), in addition to reducing latency and applying different optimizations to each one. the CCDs.
The performance improvements that The company promises they reach 18% in models without X3D and 5% on X3D models in games, which will be a considerable improvement on conventional AMD models.
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Antonio Delgado
Computer Engineer by training, editor and hardware analyst at Geeknetic since 2011. I love to tear apart everything that passes through my hands, especially the latest hardware that we receive here for reviews. In my free time I tinker with 3D printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything, here you have me.
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