AMD penned a blog post today to clarify Zen 5's gaming performance and address criticism in the wake of its turbulent Ryzen 9000 launch. Many reviews came to different conclusions about Zen 5’s gaming performance, and there were also large disparities between AMD's marketed performance values and those measured by reviewers. AMD contacted reviewers to investigate potential issues that led to the disparities and attributes much of the variance between reviews to disparate test methodologies, hardware, and software settings, which we’ll cover below. The company has also revised its internal benchmark suite with an updated list of game titles and shared revised performance projections.
As a result, AMD updated its gaming performance projections for Ryzen 9000, which it originally measured at an average of 6% faster than Intel, to now saying the processors are generally at parity in gaming performance when the Intel chips are tested with optimized settings. However, even after retesting, AMD has largely stuck with the same performance improvement projection for Ryzen 9000 chips over the prior-gen Ryzen 7000 models.
