AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs' Gaming Performance Unchanged Despite DDR5 Memory Improvements in Latest AM5 BIOS

Quasarzone has published the gaming performance benchmarks of AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs using the latest AM5 BIOS, improving memory performance and support. However, these results might seem a bit underwhelming.

The new BIOS, based on the AGESA 1.0.0.7b firmware, supports memory frequencies over DDR5-8000 and even beyond DDR5-9000. These are tantalizing numbers, but they do not bring tangible changes to gaming applications.

Testing was conducted on two memory configurations: DDR5-6200 (CL30-36-32-66) in 1:1 mode and DDR5-7400 (CL34-46-44-80) in 1:2 mode, and on two CPUs: AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X and the Ryzen 7 7800X3D V-Cache.

It was found that the new BIOS immediately supports DDR5-7400 frequencies, which were not supported by the AGESA 1.0.0.7a firmware earlier. However, the tests revealed that the higher memory frequency did not result in performance improvement compared to the lower frequency memory.

In fact, the DDR5-7400 CL34 (1:2) configuration saw a minor performance regression over the DDR5-6200 configuration running in 1:1 mode. This demonstrates that games don't necessarily benefit from higher-speed memory.

It is important to note that while gaming might not take advantage of higher memory speeds, there are other applications that can, and that is still a positive for AMD's AM5 platform and motherboard manufacturers. The AGESA 1.0.0.7b BIOS is still in BETA, so we can expect more tuning down the road.