Winds were blowing well in favour of AMD with its new Ryzen 3000 processors, but there’s always exist weaknesses even in every perfect project. For Ryzen, the point of negativity is in the form of the CPUs not reaching their dedicated and promised boost speeds, an issue appeared after a recent survey.
This comes from renowned overclocker Der8auer who compiled the responses from a survey of just over 2,700 users who responded with the performance of their Ryzen 3rd-gen processors, revealing shocking results.
The worrisome results include only 5.6% of Ryzen 9 3900X owners reporting that their processor reached its rated boost clock. That’s only one in 20.
AMD has previously affirmed that using single core on any given CPU is guaranteed to attain the promised boost clock speed, But the results of the survey are contrary as number of chips aren’t touching AMD’s claimed boost speed at all, on any core.
And for sure, even those results which are somehow showing the successful boost as promised, are once in a blue moon, sinking at the points from time to time.
The survey comprises of the majority of respondents (40%) owning a Ryzen 7 3700X, with 26% having the above discussed 3900X, and 21% of those surveyed using a Ryzen 5 3600 powering their systems. These three chips represented the vast majority of respondents.
The Ryzen 7 3700X, the most common processor in the survey, Der8auer observed that only 14.7% of chips were approaching the promised boost speed of 4.4GHz, leaving the vast majority of 85.3% deserted from reaching the claimed boost speed at all, on any core.
The outcomes with the Ryzen 5 3600 observed 49.8% of respondents obtaining the advertised boost speed of 4.2GHz or slightly better.
But as a whole, it doesn’t sound well for AMD, and certainly obvious after these results, there’s a lot of Ryzen 3rd-gen semi-conductors out there which simply doesn’t reach near to the promised boost speeds at all.
