23% Faster - Fix the 7950X3D & 7900X3D

23% Faster - Fix the 7950X3D & 7900X3D
On the left is a stock 7950X3D in Baldurs Gate 3, and if you look closely you can see the first 8 cores aren’t being utilized.

Those are the X3D cores which for Baldur’s Gate and many other games is a major issue that will lead to much lower performance.

Now many will tell you this is unfixable and to buy a 7800X3D instead, but actually it is and the fix is very easy, yet for some reason AMD didn’t do it.

To prove it on the right I have the same scenario, except this time with the fix, and as you can see, now the X3D cores are being utilized, which actually led to a 23% performance gain.

So what’s the fix? Simple.
Go into your BIOS
Press F7 to go to advanced
Find “Precision Boost Overdrive” and on ASUS under “Per-Core Boost Clock Limit” or something with a similar name on other boards (which if you can’t find it most motherboards have a search function at the top of the BIOS) Anyway once you find it, enable it and limit your non X3D cores (which are the ones that are set to clock much higher) to less than your X3D cores, I personally run 5050MHz as the max, then hit F10 to save and quit.

Now before you panic I have tested this and not only is it the only fix that always works, but it also has 0 performance decrease in any multicore or gaming workloads.

It’s an incredibly simple and safe fix because Windows typically tries to grab the highest clocking cores, so even if you have the latest chipset drivers and game bar update this is why some games still will grab the non cache cores which clock much higher.

So why didn’t AMD do this? I’m not sure. Maybe they actually thought it would be better not to, or maybe they just wanted to put 5.7GHz on the box and didn’t care that it was all negatives and no gains.

We’ll never know, but I think it’s VERY important this reaches ALL 7950 and 7900 X3D owners, so if this helped please like the video, favorite, tell me how much performance you gained in the comments, and if you could please share this on places like Reddit or other AMD forums that would be really helpful.
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