If you’ve lucked out in the CPU lottery and have the thermal headroom for it, you can get some serious gains from AMD’s latest power-efficient 7nm manufacturing process. That doesn’t mean you have to be happy with the performance you get from your Ryzen chip out of the box. At last AMD is rivalling the instructions-per-clock of Intel CPUs, while providing more cores per CPU at very reasonable prices. AMD Ryzen MasterĪMD is very much on top of its game again, with Intel licking its wounds following the release of the latest Ryzen CPUs. It’s a great diagnostic tool and, like CPU-Z, a good first stop before you actually touch anything on the GPU in terms of settings. You can get a precise, detailed readout of all your GPU specs, along with real-time output of all the card sensors. CPU-Z is also a perfect utility for getting information on your memory settings, so that you can check whether BIOS changes have actually taken effect.ĬPU-Z (by TechPowerup!) does much the same thing for your GPU. You can also get detailed information on your mainboard and what firmware its running. On our test system here, for example, Windows reports that the CPU is running at 3.5 Ghz, but CPU-Z correctly shows that it is in fact running at almost 4.3Ghz, which is what we’ve overclocked it to. In the case of CPU-Z (by CPUID) you’ll get precise information on the model of CPU you have as well as it’s actual voltage and clock speeds.

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