#DELETE A POWER PLAN DRIVER#

The scores for the CPU were almost the same. They even had the same Vcore voltages.ДЄnd for a final test to confirm performance, I ran UserBenchmark on both power plans. Indeed, both the default Windows 'Balanced' plan and the Ryzen Balanced plan behaved the same under load. I made sure the CPU was settling at the exact same temps and all-core/single-core frequencies with both power plans. To make sure I didn't just lower performance, I ran several torture tests with Prime95. This was the behavior on my older R5 1500x and every CPU I've used in the past 10 years. This is exactly what should happen when the load on the CPU is so low. The temp went back down to 47В° and the core voltage stayed at 0.88-0.98 volts.

So I switched back to the regular 'Balanced' power plan and noticed the idle frequency go down to 2.2-2.7 GHz. I also saw that the CPU was boosting to 4.0-4.1 GHz for no reason. This is with 2-5% CPU usage as reported by Task Manager. I checked the Vcore voltage with CPU-Z (the proper way) and noticed it was a ridiculous 1.38-1.40 volts. I switched to the Ryzen Balanced one and immediately noticed my CPU's temperature go from 47В° C to 55В° C. Ryzen Balanced, Power Saving, and High Performance. I saw that there were 3 new power plans available on the Windows control panel.

#DELETE A POWER PLAN DRIVER#

I recently installed my new AMD R5 3600 processor and installed the B450 chipset driver from AMD's website. There is no drop in performance under load, yet you benefit from lower idle voltages and temperature. TL DR: The AMD Ryzen power plans that come with the chipset driver are inefficient when the CPU is idle.

Delete a power plan