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  • If you play games on Windows and have a new system using a Ryzen 9000 chip you're not going to want to miss the Windows 11 24H2 update.  (WCCFTech)

    No, seriously.  It's an average of 11% faster across a broad range of games, and up to 35% in the case of Gears 5.

    This is great news if you just got a new AMD system and were disappointed with the performance gains over the previous generation.

    If you have a previous generation Ryzen 7000 (or 8000) system, unfortunately it only brings...  An average of 10% better performance and a peak of 32% in Gears 5 again.

    Reportedly it also provides better performance on Ryzen 5000, though Hardware Unboxed hasn't had time to run all those tests yet.

    What doesn't gain huge performance benefits from this update is anything running on chips from Intel...  Except for some reason Gears 5 again, where the 14600K showed a 25% performance gain.

    It's not clear exactly what's been going on, because this suggests that Windows has been inadvertently tanking AMD performance for years.  The update was focused on the new branch prediction features in Zen 5, but somehow it improved the prior two Zen generations as well.

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