recent W10 patch, March15, shows some improvements for Ryzen

[zMeul]

source:

although not particularly stated by MicroSoft, one of the March 15th updates to Windows 10 has some Ryzen tweaks

as the source shows, no gains in TW: Warhammer, Cinebench, HandBrake nor Batman: AA; but a 35% increase in UT3 benchmark tool of ~35% (not 45% as stated in the tweet)

from what I'm getting, the new scheduler behaviour is to prioritize work to cores (0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14) and not SMT threads (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15) - kinda treating it as SMT off

Spoiler

 

new testing needs to be done

[Humbug]

lol wtf

 

35% from an OS patch?

 

why didn't AMD sort this scheduler stuff out with Microsoft before launch? Day zero reviews count.

[dexT]

Mother of god..

[zMeul]

6 minutes ago, Humbug said:

lol wtf

 

35% from an OS patch?

 

why didn't AMD sort this scheduler stuff out with Microsoft before launch? Day zero reviews count.

to be clear, it's only one test, not even a game test

also, the scheduler appears to treat Ryzen as SMT off, it occupies all cores (main threads) ignoring the hyperthreads 

 

the patch could've also altered the power plan as some people have reported the FMA issue is gone

[Dylanc1500]

This is going to be so misconstrued by people.

[divito]

1 minute ago, Humbug said:

lol wtf

 

35% from an OS patch?

 

why didn't AMD sort this scheduler stuff out with Microsoft before launch? Day zero reviews count.

That's not really the point. Anyone who has been around tech long enough knows that CPU releases aren't instantly optimized, whether early samples are released or not. Results like this are expected; maybe not 35%, but it'd be almost impossible to see zero improvement in the next few months after updates, patches, and new games come out.

[PlayStation 2]

Unreal Tournament 3 seems like a really pointless game to benchmark. Something like even the Source engine would be better for benchmarking. Oh well, we'll wait and see how else this improves shit.

[Guest]

Just now, Dan Castellaneta said:

Unreal Tournament 3 seems like a really pointless game to benchmark. Something like even the Source engine would be better for benchmarking. Oh well, we'll wait and see how else this improves shit.

But Gaben, Valve and shit CS GO bug will never be fixed

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

But Gaben, Valve and shit CS GO bug will never be fixed

It'd be a better basis than UT3. I've never seen anyone talk about UT3, but you have people playing TF2 and CSGO all day everyday.

[WMGroomAK]

23 minutes ago, zMeul said:

new testing needs to be done

I would prefer new testing be done sometime in June or July for the whole platform.  By then, hopefully there will have been enough in the way of updates to actually get a feel for the Zen platform and what it's strength, weaknesses and growth potential are.  Part of the reason I try to avoid being a Day One adopter on any new technology release, be it GPU, CPU or even game console and phones.  Always have bugs that need to be worked out.

[Citadelen]

Not exactly the most prominent benchmarks to use, but at least it prioritises the actual cores themselves now, instead of saturating a cores resources while others are left idling.

[Mr.Meerkat]

9 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

But Gaben, Valve and shit CS GO bug will never be fixed

?? Apart from 64 tick servers being horrible, fps wise, I have nothing against CSGO...

I mean I get 450fps~ on D2, 400fps~ on mirage/cache/overpass and 300-350fps on Newke, Infenew and Train so...it's not that bad...(lowest 1080p by the way) 

 

14 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Unreal Tournament 3 seems like a really pointless game to benchmark. Something like even the Source engine would be better for benchmarking. Oh well, we'll wait and see how else this improves shit.

Still, a performance improvement is still an improvement  

[shdowhunt60]

Rebenching time?

[Coaxialgamer]

7 minutes ago, shdowhunt60 said:

Rebenching time?

Give it a month or two. We could still be seeing tweaks OS-side in the near future. 

[matrix07012]

1 hour ago, deXxterlab97 said:

But Gaben, Valve and shit CS GO bug will never be fixed

CSGO scales pretty well across multiple cores, but takes a hit with HT on.

[samcool55]

It seems like the scheduler is using the cores correctly now, that's nice

Let's hope someone takes the time to rebench ryzen properly.

[zMeul]

2 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

It seems like the scheduler is using the cores correctly now

correctly?!!? then explain to me why STM even exists on Ryzen?

[samcool55]

3 minutes ago, zMeul said:

correctly?!!? then explain to me why STM even exists on Ryzen?

Maybe it does use SMT but it just sticks to 1 cpu module so the CCX doesn't need to be utilized to allow communication between cores.

 

I mean it went from utilizing 10 treads to 8 and the utilized cores are now at 100% constantly which wasn't the case before. Could be because the cores were waiting for information from other cores that had to go through the CCX thingy...

 

It's too early to conclude what exactly is going on, but they clearly fixed something. But i don't know what exactly...

[zMeul]

1 minute ago, samcool55 said:

Maybe it does use SMT but it just sticks to 1 cpu module so the CCX doesn't need to be utilized to allow communication between cores.

 

I mean it went from utilizing 10 treads to 8 and the utilized cores are now at 100% constantly which wasn't the case before. Could be because the cores were waiting for information from other cores that had to go through the CCX thingy...

 

It's too early to conclude what exactly is going on, but they clearly fixed something. But i don't know what exactly...

the pictures in the spoiler shows exactly what was "fixed", let's not dance around it

[Guest Kloaked]

I vote to ban posts from sources that are always from some random outlet in Asia that shows some very sketchy claims. But just like how the forum lords won't change the title of "Tech News and Reviews" to just "Tech News", this probably won't happen even if the rules in this section says:

 

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Your thread must include a link to at least one reputable source. Most of the time, this should be a respected news site.

@GoodBytes @Ryan_Vickers @Blade of Grass or someone ?

[Syntaxvgm]

But can it make Intel's enthusiast market share a Crysis? 

[zMeul]

here's my i3 hyperthreaded for comparison:

 

 

see the difference? it doesn't prioritize cores over SMT

 

compared to setting affinity to thread 0 and 2:

 

if MS is doing this, they should treat both equally

[DocSwag]

I was not expecting Ryzen performance to improve that much... Dang. Perhaps there is hope for Ryzen gaming benchmarks to catch up to the 6900k...

[Guest]

34 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

I vote to ban posts from sources that are always from some random outlet in Asia that shows some very sketchy claims. But just like how the forum lords won't change the title of "Tech News and Reviews" to just "Tech News", this probably won't happen even if the rules in this section says:

 

@GoodBytes @Ryan_Vickers @Blade of Grass or someone ?

Twitter is very reputable, even POTUS posts there so it must be reputable. /s

[MageTank]

6 minutes ago, zMeul said:

here's my i3 hyperthreaded for comparison:

 

 

see the difference? it doesn't prioritize cores over SMT

6GB of ram?!? Blasphemy!