A hardware enthusiast has tested the Gigabyte X3D Turbo mode. As shared by York on X, the model was tested in Forza Horizon 5 on a Ryzen 7 9700X. With the feature enabled, performance improved by a measly 5%.
Gigabyte's X3D Turbo mode arrives with the AGESA microcode update 1.2.0.2a, which is already en route to 600 series and 800 series chipset motherboards. According to our sources, the turbo mode isn't exclusive to Gigabyte. Instead, it's a feature that's part of the latest AGESA microcode so that other motherboard manufacturers will offer the same feature, most likely under a different name. It's unknown how the turbo mode works, but we were told it disables a particular setting in the firmware. From the York's feedback, it looks like simultaneous multi-threading (SMT).
