Question Windows 11 hobbling Ryzen 7000 performance

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Shmee

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The only pro I can think of for running Windows 11 at the moment is better Alder Lake / Raptor Lake task scheduling when compared to Windows 10. I doubt AM5 CPUs would have trouble with Windows 10, but even if they do, I doubt it is worse than on Windows 11, so it would still be pointless to use 11.

Unless someone can think of some big reason to use 11 right now that I don't know of. But I doubt it.
 

GunsMadeAmericaFree

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>>Unless someone can think of some big reason to use 11 right now that I don't >>know of. But I doubt it.

If you ask my wife and kids, it is because "you annoyingly wanted EVERYTHING to be changed!!!" (I find this funny, because my youngest kept asking me to upgrade to 11 for months)
 
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The only pro I can think of for running Windows 11 at the moment is better Alder Lake / Raptor Lake task scheduling when compared to Windows 10. I doubt AM5 CPUs would have trouble with Windows 10, but even if they do, I doubt it is worse than on Windows 11, so it would still be pointless to use 11.

Unless someone can think of some big reason to use 11 right now that I don't know of. But I doubt it.
It's a free upgrade, and I can't tell the difference from 10, other than a moderately worse UI. I don't see any point with my usage for staying on 10. Though I am hoping 11 will be my last windows version. I was on Amiga until I stopped being able to buy the games I wanted. Now, every time I fire up SteamOS and play games, I feel like maybe I don't need to go back to my windows install. Teh day approaches...

To whom it may concern: PC Gamer is owned by Future, same as this site.
 

GunsMadeAmericaFree

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Someone told me that 11 was supposed to boot up faster. Now I wish I had timed my system booting up under 10 4 times, then compared the same system booting up under 11 4 times, to compare the averages.
 

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So in general except for some games Windows 10 doesn't use the cores of Am5 better than Windows 11? (With Windows 11 and its thread director)

There hasn't been any indicator of that being true. AM5 CPUs don't have a different core layout than AM4 (5950x vs 7950X), so why would anything be different?
 
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A curious question: Is it possible to have Windows 10 and Windows 11 on separate SSDs, but using the same license and swapping the SSDs as needed? Only one of them would be used at any one time. Is it possible, that putting in the Windows 11 SSD after activating Windows on the Win10 SSD, Microsoft servers may invalidate the Win10 activation?
 

phillyman36

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There hasn't been any indicator of that being true. AM5 CPUs don't have a different core layout than AM4 (5950x vs 7950X), so why would anything be different?
To much information overload for me lol I misunderstood something I read. Someone was going with a 7950 with Windows 10 because they had older games and wanted to stick with W10 in general. I misunderstood it and thats why I asked.

Also just want to say thanks to you and Markfw. Over the years you all have helped me a good amount with any questions I had.
 
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If it turned out that a certain processor company was PAYING someone at Microsoft to PURPOSEFULLY hobble a certain other competing company's performance under Windows 11... and someone actually came across the paper trail for this, what do you think they would call the resulting scandal?
Nothingburger?
 

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So is it better to run Am5 on Windows 10? What are the pros and cons of Am5 Windows 10 vs Windows 11?

Windows 10 will have less updates and patches to mess things up, because they already messed up whatever they could.
So when AM5 was made, they accounted all the screw ups microsoft has done with bios updates and whatnots.

Windows 11, expect many many many... (include many at least 10 more times) patchs to follow to make things a living hell, claiming they "Fixed" something only to be left hanging to the motherboard vendors to quickly roll out a patch or a fix in the microcode.

Personally windows 11 is all hype at the moment.... never run a system that new on a OS that fresh, as it was not intended in development on that intended CPU.
 
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What, 12 and a half months wasn't long enough to make it stable???
They seem to be adding new features faster than they can fix the bugs introduced by the previous new features differentiating Win11 from Win10

They also don't have much pressure on them to dedicate more developers to Windows 11 because they know their user base will downgrade to Windows 10. They can easily see that with their activation data. I would love to know how many licenses first activated with Windows 11 and what was the average time before the same license was re-activated with Windows 10.

Here's my thinking for why Microsoft is doing two OSes side by side: they have the dev channel but not many users are willing to beta test on their primary work machine. So they created a new OS with bleeding edge updates that the entire world beta tests thinking this is the newest greatest version of Windows. It's a brilliant strategy if you ask me. I probably would have done the same
 

aigomorla

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What, 12 and a half months wasn't long enough to make it stable???

Windows 10 launched July 29, 2015.
I don't think many people even rolled the OS until Microsoft started going YOLO, lets upgrade everyone on 7 for free, because they wanted to promote the windows app store, seeing the many great success google play, and iTunes App store had.

Also CPU's were not drastically changing arch each generation. Meaning the biggest thing we probably got was AGP + PCI -> PCI-E
SATA1G -> SATA3G.
Currently we are getting a new gen of PCI-E each generation, new set of a RAM, and Ryzen platform is already on its 5th gen, coming from the original Athlon, and Opteron. Intel has P + E Cores now on the same CPU package.

The final notification to migrate from 7 to 10 was issued in 2020.
So id assume probably you saw the biggest move around 2018.
So 3 yrs post development, and even then they still have not fixed some of the games which worked flawlessly on 7 to this day, without developers needing to patch almost half the game.

So 1 yr is nothing... give it at least 2 more years to brew, probably longer, as i and many others i can think have no thoughts in regards of 11 being superior to 10, other then superior at driving you crazy, because the OS is not at the state it should of launched at, especially with gaming.
 

bononos

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becuase window developers write the code on intel based enterprise machines.
It may change with EYPC taking up marketing percentage.
But until then, chances are the game you will play was written on an Intel based machine running either a AMD or Nvidia video card.
AMD if its a console port, and Nvidia if its a PC only or PC Primary Title.
Its understandable that Intel enterprise servers practically owned the market before Ryzen but would it kill Microsoft to at least run Windows on AMD pc's and to check for obvious problems? Thats the part which I don't get.
 
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aigomorla

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but would it kill Microsoft to at least run Windows on AMD pc's and to check for obvious problems?

no because if games can run on a xbox, it can typically run on like 90% of gaming PC's.
How many people are actually on 5th gen Ryzen 7000 series?
Infact how many are even on 4th gen Ryzen 5000 series, compared to 3rd gen Ryzen 3000?

The Xbox series X is on Zen 2.
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So if as long as it runs fine on Zen 2, they really have no need to go beyond that, as the biggest market share of the users will be on CPU's simular to Zen 2.
Which is why u will get late updates, and they will just leave it to the board and cpu manufactures to update the AEGIS and Microcode with bios updates so it works instead of windows fixing it themselves.
 

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Messing with stuff that already works fine and making it "better" takes up all their time.
Windows itself simply is no longer a primary business focus for Microsoft. Microsoft tries to use the reach Windows still has to get everybody to join their cloud ecosystem and push their tech of the day. But Windows has been a mess for quite some time, and the only serious effort is about adding even more (often unwanted) capability on top, because flexibility.
 

bononos

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no because if games can run on a xbox, it can typically run on like 90% of gaming PC's.
How many people are actually on 5th gen Ryzen 7000 series?
Infact how many are even on 4th gen Ryzen 5000 series, compared to 3rd gen Ryzen 3000?
........
So if as long as it runs fine on Zen 2, they really have no need to go beyond that, as the biggest market share of the users will be on CPU's simular to Zen 2.
Which is why u will get late updates, and they will just leave it to the board and cpu manufactures to update the AEGIS and Microcode with bios updates so it works instead of windows fixing it themselves.

Do you think the situation will be reversed when AMD dominates the server market and development will be done on EPYC systems?
 

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Do you think the situation will be reversed when AMD dominates the server market and development will be done on EPYC systems?
I don't think games development is being majorly done on server or workstations, Epyc or otherwise (so I'm disagreeing with aigomorla on that point). Imo the situation may reverse whenever/if AMD systems become the default minimum and recommended spec for games, though as aigomorla rightly noted on PC the hurdle is pretty much basic compatibility (that it runs at all) not optimization (that it is made to run very well on a specific system). The latter should happen more on consoles, but there the market dominating PS5 (and unlike Xbox Series) considerably deviates in its implementation of Zen 2, so that's the lowest common denominator (we'll have to see, but the budget chip Mendocino may be the first consumer Zen 2 chip with a limited FPU setup similar to PS5).
 
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I don't think games development is being majorly done on server or workstations, Epyc or otherwise (so I'm disagreeing with aigomorla on that point).
Doesn't the rendering part require professional graphics cards etc.? I would think that at least at the AAA studios, they would want their developers working with ECC RAM to prevent bit errors from ruining something they spent a lot of time working on.
 
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