AMD AGESA PI 1.2.0.2 Performance With The Ryzen 9 9950X On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 19 September 2024 at 01:17 PM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 28 Comments.

While there were some wins and a few regressions, on the scale of nearly 400 benchmarks, the vast majority of them saw no real difference in performance.

When taking the geometric mean of all 385 benchmarks run, overall the performance was flat between the original Ryzen 9 9950X results and the new 9950X results using the latest ASUS BETA BIOS for this motherboard.

Here is a look at the side-by-side results from the original launch-day BIOS and the new BETA BIOS with newest AGESA. This is for results where there was a significant difference between runs with all the flat results omitted from the review. In Apache HTTPD, PyTorch, and various other mostly multi-threaded apps like HPC/scientific computing there was typically up to a few percent better performance. The regressions that did occur were less often and typically at 4% or less difference.

When looking at the CPU power consumption across the entire span of benchmarks conducted, overall the minimum / average / peak CPU power consumption was very similar without any measurable difference as a result of the new BIOS with its updated AGESA and CPU microcode.

So for a limited number of benchmarks there were changes to find in performance but from all 385 benchmarks in total overall the performance was rather flat for performance and no measurable difference in CPU power consumption. Then again, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X performance under Linux with a wide variety of workloads has been performing great already since launch day.

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