What you need to know
- AMD's new Ryzen 9000 processors failed to live up to certain expectations when run through benchmarks by reviewers.
- AMD has shed light on why it believes the benchmarks it saw during internal testing were different than results seen by reviewers.
- One key factor was that AMD's testing was done in Admin mode, while some reviews performed benchmarks using standard accounts.
- AMD's Zen 5 architecture uses a wider branch prediction capacity than previous generations, and at the moment Admin accounts can better utilize that increased capacity.
- "Optimized AMD-specific branch prediction code" will make its way to Windows 11 with the next major update of the operating system, improving Ryzen 9000 gaming performance.
