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Darren Allan

Wish your Ryzen CPU was faster? Good news – a Windows 11 patch coming soon will give all newer AMD chips a free speed boost

A PC Gamer looking happy sat in front of their desktop monitor.

AMD’s Ryzen 9000 (Zen 5) processors, and some previous Ryzen generations, are going to get a performance boost courtesy of an update to Windows 11 in the near future.

An optional patch Microsoft is set to roll out “soon,” according to AMD, will ensure faster frame rates in games (and overall performance elsewhere) for Ryzen 9000, 7000, and 5000 processors – but the biggest gains will be delivered to the new Zen 5 CPUs.

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