TDP to 105W, a new BIOS option that will allow Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X users to boost the advertised TDPs of their Zen 5 CPUs from 65 to 105 watts, does little in terms of improving the performance of some of today’s most popular games, including Game Science’s Black Myth: Wukong and Valve’s Counter-Strike 2, according to new benchmarks that have been shared online. The new setting, which is being introduced by MSI and other manufacturers as part of the AGESA BIOS PI 1.2.0.1 update, is said to be officially arriving with AGESA 1.2.0.2.
The games tested include:
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Counter-Strike 2
- F1 24
- Starfield
A dump of the benchmarks posted by ASCII:
ASCII noted in its coverage (machine translation):
The only data we found was that there was no correlation between TDP settings and CPU power consumption in games. However, in Starfield, we found that by increasing the TDP to 105W or 120W, CPU power consumption increased significantly. However, this was only true for the Ryzen 7 9700X, and there was almost no change in the Ryzen 5 9600X.