Could Ryzen's Neural Net Affect Game Performance?

[dcgreen2k]

Post is mostly in the title. In the first week or so of playing games, like GTA 5, I would sometimes see a constant framerate drop down to about 10fps. I felt that it would feel the most similar to thermal throttling. I still don't have any case fans, but the components don't seem nearly hot enough to cause any throttling. Now, over a month later, I never see any of these framerate issues. Is the Neural Net on a scale large enough that it would affect game performance?

 

If anything, I can see that smaller folders open up extremely quickly, and in Task Manager, Service Host Superfetch has crazy disk usage. This is anywhere from 10-110 MB of data being read/written, even whe the PC is idling. I'm guessing this is a sort of "preloading" of data into RAM?

[Vroooom]

Ryzen's "Neural Net" is just marketing fluff for the way they're doing branch prediction. It's not something where you'd see performance increase over time, it's more at the level of the instructions going through the CPU. All modern CPUs do branch prediction, and AMD's marketing calls their technique a neural net. I don't know what's going on with your computer, that sounds kind of weird