Tuesday, June 14th 2022
AMD Releases AGESA V2 1.2.0.7 Microcode to Motherboard Vendors and OEMs
AMD over the weekend reportedly released the AGESA V2 PI 1.2.0.7 microcode to motherboard vendors and PC OEMs. This particular version of AGESA gains importance to those on Windows 11, as it corrects a performance-stuttering issue caused due to frequent polling of the fTPM by the OS. The new version of AGESA is also bound for AMD 300-series chipset motherboards, where it adds official (stable) support for Ryzen 5000 series processors, letting those on the 5-year old platform enjoy an IPC uplift as much as 60% (Zen 3 vs. Zen). 1.2.0.7 is also rumored to address certain stability issues with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, and enables BCLK overclocking on the chip, as long as the processor doesn't draw more than 1.35 V in the Vcore voltage domain. It's now over to the motherboard vendors and PC OEMs, to encapsulate 1.2.0.7 with their firmware and release to end-users.
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HotHardware
115 Comments on AMD Releases AGESA V2 1.2.0.7 Microcode to Motherboard Vendors and OEMs
TPM Stuttering still seemed present or some other issue causes games to stutter.
USB audio that was supposedly fixed in 1.2.0.2 is still broken 5 versions later, only fix is still to set pcie to 3.0.
This is honestly the worst CPU/Board purchase ive ever made, thanks AMD.
make sure you got a UPS and no lighting storms in the area :)
But i also remember doing them back in the day where it wasn't built into the bios and you have to download the correct tools to do so and there was less margin for error.
Ive not had any stability related issues in any other situations, sure ive got PBO/XMP on but considering the same "fix" of disabling pcie4 on GPU is still working it seems like its still a hardware problem and not really an overclocking one. I could always test it with PBO/XMP off but even if that solves the audio issues that's less of a fix than pcie4->3 due to how much performance impact it would have. Either way AMD calimed it was fixed and overclocking shouldnt break it if thats the case :/
Are your video drivers current?
I don't think I should run a Zen 3 chip other than a 5600G in my B350-F, but it is nice to have!
It still remains that the only fix that worked before AMD issued any BIOS updates was switching pcie4 to 3 and it's still the only way im solving the problem. I cant see it being anything but a hardware issue somewhere with AMD/x570/msi. For everything else it's almost flawless (because i dont use tpm and dont yet run w11), but its a pain.
PBO +200, hitting 5.05GHz
On the latest Agesa I get 15650 points on Cinebench23 and 672 single core on cpuz.
Rolling back to Agesa 1.2.0.3 I get 16030 and 692.
My guess is that newer agesas have security fixes that impact performance.
my two best cores still hit 5.05Ghz with PBO+ 200
As for EDC i've always had it at 140 so that isn't an issue for me.
After seeing the huge loss on 1.2.0.7 I've actually tested all Agesas / BIOS between .3 and .7, and with every update there was a slight drop in performance, accumulating to 2-3% from .3 to .7
I have an Arctic AIO 280mm and well ventilated case, and I always test after a fresh reboot + 5 min of idle time. Ran the tests multiple times and results were consistent.
It all makes sense as the 2 BIOS with the heaviest impact on performance had micro code security fixes, which I don't care since my Windows is clean.
At the end of the day, I have a 5800X (overclocked + old agesa) that's faster than the 5800X3D (locked + newer agesa) according to cinebench and cpuz results on reddit.