MSI has unveiled a new homebrewed performance-boosting feature called PBO Enhanced Mode. This feature purportedly improves AMD's Ryzen 9000 chips, which compete with the best CPUs. MSI's iteration is seemingly an improved version of AMD's PBO2. The MSI-tuned variant of PBO can boost performance by up to 15% on the Ryzen 7 9700X and up to 10% on the Ryzen 9 9950X.
The new PBO Enhanced Mode from MSI has three modes: PBO Enhanced 1, 2, and 3. In CPU-Z, Cinebench R20, R23, and 2024 — running on a Ryzen 9 9950X, MSI recorded up to a 6% performance improvement with PBO Enhanced 1. Enhanced 2 yielded up to an 8% greater performance improvement, and Enhanced 3 — the most aggressive mode boosted performance to almost 10%. According to MSI's testing, AMD's vanilla PBO2 feature only boosted performance by up to 5%.
