The processors AMD X3D They have taken a lot of reputation among the gamers, because thanks to their 3D V-Cache, it has been shown that they effectively improve games in games. And taking advantage of this, the manufacturer Colorful has implemented what they have called in its motherboard X3D Gaming Modewhich supposedly optimizes performance even more.
The new AMD Ryzen 9 9000x3D will soon arrive in the market, and taking advantage of the colorful situation has revealed a owner technology that will theoretically improve the performance of AMD processors, and we say AMD processors in general because, according to the manufacturer, this optimization will not be limited only to X3D processors, but to the entire CPUS AMD Ryzen line. Good news without a doubt, as long as it is not a mere dirt of marketing, of course.
Colorful X3D Gaming Mode for AMD, what does it do?
Well, the manufacturer has published a short video on the Chinese Weibo platform that illustrates how this X3D Gaming Mode works on its motherboard with Socket Am5, including the AMD B650 chipset. This feature must be enabled in the bios of the plate, and much eye because when what does it is activated is Disable SMT (Simultaneous multi threading) in the processor, which disables the possibility of having twice the process threads. In addition, in the event that the processor has two CCDSdisable one of them to function only in one.
In theory, this immensely helps the performance of the processor in games (as you can see in the capture above, taken from the video published by Colorful, the fps increase considerably) since the remaining CCD remains with all the entire L3 cache, And how is the second CCD disable latency is reduced. In processors other than X3D this can also help improve performance in games, although much less, of course.
Yes, it is true, and this we can tell you firsthand, that in many games that are quite demanding processor performance, disabled the SMT (or Hyperthreading in the case of Intel) can help a lot to improve performance. In fact, in heterogeneous processors such as the Alder Lake, configuring affinity only to performance P nuclei is quite common for the same. But of course, it also has its disadvantages.
Beware of this, that everything that shines is not gold
Ok, then you enter the BIOS, you activate a parameter and the games will work better, with more fps. All perfect, right? Well, not quite. This would be good for people who use the PC only and exclusively to play, and not always because not all games benefit just as deactivating SMT or cutting the processor’s CCD in half. Of course, it will heat up less.
After all, if you buy a processor with, for example, 16 nuclei and 32 process threads, you don’t want to keep half, right? In usual scenarios this will reduce system performance, since after all you are leaving, as little, the processor with half of the process threads. Above, every time you want to activate or deactivate it you will have to walk entering the bios … a little uncomfortable, really.
