Clearly, since the launch of the Ryzen 9000 CPUs, there’s been quite a bit of activity on the MSI BIOS front. The company has released a number of BIOSes, the latest of which, containing AGESA 1.2.0.1, enables the TDP of the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X to be increased. The aim of raising these values is to boost processor performance.
Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X: 62% increase in TDP for 13% more performance!
In fact, the aim of the manoeuvre is to improve processor performance by increasing the TDP. The TDP is configured from 65W to 105W, an increase of 62%. However, by doing this, we lose the appeal of these two CPUs, which was their low power consumption and moderate heat output, since more power consumption = more heat output. Although it would have been interesting to know what temperatures the CPUs were running at during the tests.
As a matter of fact, readings were taken on Cinebench r23 to measure the impact of an increase in TDP. So, while the 9700X posted a score of 20,409 pts at 65W, by increasing to 105W, the score rises to 23,153 pts. However, as our colleague points out, this increase in performance remains “theoretical” insofar as Cinebench remains a synthetic test that will take advantage of your entire processor. To get a real idea of performance, you’d have to run a whole battery of CPU tests.
