AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 processors based on the Zen 3 architecture went on sale yesterday. Robert Hallock, the company’s director of technical marketing, has now posted answers to many questions about processors on Twitter and AMD’s blog.

Users of AMD processors have become familiar with the Ryzen power management profile that comes with Windows chipset drivers, which improves the performance of companies ‘processors compared to Windows’ built-in profiles. However, in the Ryzen 5000 series, there is no longer a need for this, so a separate power management profile is not installed. Instead, users can find the balance they want in terms of performance and power consumption from Windows’ built-in settings. The chipset drivers come with the Windows Provisioning Package, which adds support for the slider between performance and power consumption.

The Ryzen 5000 series has been officially supported since AMD’s AGESA 1.1.0.0, although older versions 1.0.8.0 allow the computer to boot up to at least the BIOS. AGESA 1.1.0.0 has a significant number of new optimizations, but they are specifically targeted at new processors, and Hallock said that installing it will not benefit users of older Ryzen processors.

Current BIOS versions for Ryzen 5000 processors have completely eliminated the ability to reduce the operating voltage. According to AMD, the feature is being added back in future versions as an even better version, but the details of this are still obscured. The company also advertised that the processors are now capable of the best 2000 Infinity Fabric clock frequency, which, however, remained a dream with io-Tech’s test processors, for example. According to Hallock, the forthcoming AGESA update will also improve this situation and more processors should be able to increase the IF clock frequency 2000 to MHz and thus obtain DDR4 – 4000 – memories to operate at a 1: 1 ratio. However, not all processors will be able to meet these clock frequencies even after the upgrade.

In addition, AMD has released slides describing the expected operating temperatures and voltages of the new Ryzen 5000 processors. 105 The maximum allowable temperature TjMax for Ryzen processors with a watt TDP is approximately 90 degrees and 60 watts about 95 degrees. According to AMD, the cheapest coolers would keep the new processors at full load at about 85 – 95 degrees, mid-range coolers around 75 – 85 degree and more efficient head air and fluid circulations approx. 60 – degree.

The operating voltage of the processors is completely constant from 0.2 to 1.5 volts. On the desktop, voltages should rotate around 0.9 to 1.2 volts in known and lightweight applications such as browsers 1.1 to 1, 35 volts. With lightweight applications using only one or two cores, the voltage can rise by about 1, – 1.5 volts and the voltage of all cores under stress should be about 1, volts. In game mode, the voltage varies between about 1 and 1.5 volts, depending on the game, depending on the game.

Sources: Robert Hallock @ Twitter, AMD