Test Setup
Please read our testing methodologies and benchmarks article for a background on our testing methods and benchmarks generally speaking. Our CPU testing platform has evolved, and now contains the following hardware listed below.
We are using an ASUS TUF GAMING X570-Plus Wi-Fi motherboard for testing, this is an AMD X570 chipset-based motherboard, with VRM cooling. We have reviewed the motherboard here. We are using BIOS version 4021 which is dated 8/17/2021 and is the latest BIOS at the time of testing. It uses AMD AM4 AGESA V2 PI 1.2.0.3 Patch C. The CPUs are being cooled by a 280mm AIO, the NZXT Kraken X63 on its Performance profile, and “Turbo” fan speeds.
For memory, we are using two 8GB sticks of G.SKILL Trident Z Neo 16GB total at 3600MHz with timings of 16-19-19-39-85-1T (CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC-CR). This frequency and timing are the same on both CPUs and D.O.C.P. is enabled.
We are also using the latest AMD Chipset Drivers version 3.09.01.140 dated 9/13/2021.
We have the Performance and Sleep slider set to Performance in Windows settings on the Ryzen 7 5800X, and for the Ryzen 7 3700X, we are utilizing the AMD Ryzen High-Performance power profile.
As stated earlier, we have enabled Precision Boost Override (PBO) for overclocking the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU by +200MHz. This is indicated in our graphs with “PBO” on the title bar. The one without PBO is stock default operation with PBO disabled.