Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
by paranoidrobot on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:31PM
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I didn't see this reply until just now.
I had no idea what Ryzen Master was until you mentioned it - seems it's some AMD utility for Windows.
I'm running a stock hardware configuration, no overclocking, and running Pop! OS 20.04.
I guess what I'm saying is that you might be interested in exploring some of these options in Ryzen Master. You have some thermal headroom, so if your motherboard has good power delivery, you can max out the power limits and boost clock limits, and probably squeeze out a little extra performance. Power (and therefore heat) is going to scale quadratically with core voltage, and frequency is going to scale less than linearly with voltage, so you might not see much gain (and might prefer not spinning your fans up to full speed under load). But, it's an option that's available if that sort of thing interests you.
I got about 6% more real-world speed out of my Threadripper 3970X by switching from OC off to Automatic Overclocking; with air cooling. AMD's technology here is pretty impressive.