Monday, August 24th 2020
ClockTuner for Ryzen Simplifies "Zen 2" Overclocking, Squeezes Out Double-digit Percent Performance
ClockTuner for Ryzen (CTR) by Yuri "1usmus" Bubliy, is an evolution of the DRAM Calculator for Ryzen utility. The utility goes beyond the functionality of the DRAM Calculator - which finds the most precise memory settings for Ryzen processors - and does your homework for Ryzen CPU overclocking. Optimized for processors based on the "Zen 2" microarchitecture, CTR has been designed both for Socket AM4 and sTRX4 (Threadripper) processors, and Linus Tech Tips in its announcement video of CTR demonstrated the tool's prowess in squeezing out a neat 10% performance gain for their Threadripper 3960X processor. Besides CPU and memory settings, the tool performs stability testing and benchmarking. 1usmus expects to release CTR 1.0 in September 2020.
Source:
Guru3D


78 Comments on ClockTuner for Ryzen Simplifies "Zen 2" Overclocking, Squeezes Out Double-digit Percent Performance
Seriously, what are you people expecting? It works perfectly fine on my CJR modules, so I'm sorry to say, that it's most likely down to incompetence if you can't get it working and maybe if you can't do something as simple as changing a handful of setting in the UEFI, then maybe you shouldn't tinker around in there at all.
But yeah, it's all me, while it's apparently ok to attack the creator of this tool and call his software out as trash, makes perfect sense :kookoo:
And you are right about there is no point attacking 1usmus about his wonderful tools, which are useful and great.
But the DRAM calculator is not working for everyone, and that has nothing to do with incompetence. Sometimes DRAM modules are just too bad to go any faster than XMP values.
In my case (Hynix DJR on G.Skill 3600CL16 sticks) the suggested values worked but the performance gain were negligible at best, so I’d stick with defaults XMP.I’m intrigued about the LLC level 4 (Asus) suggested setting.
During my fine tuning of the Ryzen 9 3900X I was under the impression that LLC Level 4 on my Asus ROG Strix B550-F was providing a sort of benefit for my results.
I asked for advice here but someone told me “leave it on AUTO because you are overvolting without a reason”. Since I’ve just recently jumped ship from Intel (where I was quite expert with those settings) I didn’t argue about that.
Now it is interesting to see 1usmus to suggest the same setting I was using with my slightly undervolted 3900X.
My CCX overclock is 4.35/4.35/4.25/4.25 @1.3v (1.26v after droop), so for gaming is the same as PBO, but I gain performance in multithreaded applications such as rendering, encoding, etc., at slightly more power draw, about 10 watts at 100% load, and performance is always the same regardless the ambient temp. Stock + PBO I loss performance in summer because the raised ambient temp and how the boost algorithm depends on that.
In a normal system, that you use everyday with Windows bloatware and a lot of background apps, I never saw my CPU sustain that 4.6Ghz single core in apps or games. The best I got was 4.4Ghz under certain scenarios, and around 4.5Ghz in benchmarks such as CB, AIDA or CPU-z, so the theoretical single core boost advertised by AMD has zero meaning in everyday usage in my opinion. It's only a peak, instantaneous value, sustained is much lower in a normal system with a lot of apps loaded. My all core sustained clocks @ stock are 4.05 / 4.2Ghz load dependant, so in my particular system, dialing a CCX overclock as I did is a no brainer.
For others with much better binned CPUs the situation would be different, of course.
I'll try it too but doubt it is beating my best 4.5 all core run or my usual Oc tactics of defaults ,and memory OC.
Regardless Ty 1usmus I hope you prove me wrong and it's nice to have some tools to mess with, Ryzen master could be better, I like it ,but it could, per core clock's for example.
Not many game engine can populate all the cores of the 3900X, but most modern games can spread the workload over many cores, so single core performance aren’t relevant even for gaming.
at stock on my 3900X using Doom Eternal I’m seeing 4.2/4.4 GHz on many cores. Same for AC Odyssey.it could be just me, but I’m scared by fixed voltage on a cpu, so overclock in a Ryzen isn’t my kind of business...On my PC during everyday usage the CPU is hitting 4541 MHz on many cores, with 4616 MHz (the best I’ve ever seen) on the two best cores.Yep. Every cpu is a different story. Mine is extremely temperature dependent.
Hynix is useless memory anyway even on intel micron is hit and miss.
He wrote about a beta, on Twitter, but never released one.
From OP "1usmus expects to release CTR 1.0 in September 2020."
Download Link: www.guru3d.com/files-details/clocktuner-for-ryzen-download.html
I downloaded everything just need to hop over to the bios and change a couple of settings.
It’s moved the clockspeed on the 3800X from 4,175 MHz all cores to 4,300 with the same voltage from the beginning at 1.25. Nvm it was sleep mode.
Energy Efficiency so far has went from 3.35 to 3.48
Looks likes moved on to testing the individual CCX1 & CCX 2. And it’s done.
Anyways I missed a step for the benchmark that shows before and after change.
The set OC with CTR in Cinebench, score is up, and power usage is down.
Have i likely got something screwing with it, or am i missing how its meant to work?
Voltage down from 1.367 to 1.225V
CCX1/CCX2 down from 4100/4100Mhz to 4000/4000Mhz
CB20 multi score down from 3680 to 3607 (-2%)
PPT from 82W to 64W (-22%!)
Temps from 73C to 66C in CB