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AMD Admits "Stars" in Ryzen Master Don't Correspond to CPPC2 Preferred Cores

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AMD in a blog post earlier today explained that there is no 1:1 correlation between the "best core" grading system displayed in Ryzen Master, and the "preferred cores" addressed by the Windows 10 Scheduler using CPPC2 (Collaborative Power and Performance Control 2). Deployed through BIOS and AMD chipset drivers, CPPC2 forms a middleware between OS and processor, communicating the system's performance demands at a high frequency of 1 ms (Microsoft's default speed for reporting performance states to processors is 15 ms). Ryzen Master, on the other hand, has had the ability to reveal the "best" cores in a Ryzen processor by ranking them across the package, on a CCD (die), and within a CCX. The best core in a CCX is typically marked with a "star" symbol on the software's UI. The fastest core on the package gets a gold star. Dots denote second fastest cores in a CCX.

Over the past couple of months we've posted several investigative reports by our Ryzen memory overclocking guru Yuri "1usmus" Bubly, and a recurring theme with our articles has been to highlight the discrepancy between the highest performing cores as tested by us not corresponding to those highlighted in Ryzen Master. Our definition of "highest performing cores" has been one that's able to reach and sustain the highest boost states, and has the best electrical properties. AMD elaborates that the CPPC2 works independently from the SMU API Ryzen Master uses, and the best cores mapped by Ryzen Master shouldn't correspond with preferred cores reported by CPPC2 to the OS scheduler, so it could send more workload to these cores, benefiting from their higher boosting headroom.



The "best cores" as defined by SMU and reported by Ryzen Master are hence decided on the basis of electrical properties, and hard-coded at the time of die binning in the factory. The "preferred cores" as defined by CPPC2 are those cores to which AMD wants the OS scheduler to send the most traffic to, not just on the basis of their superior physical or electrical properties, but also being optimal for Windows scheduler core rotation policy. Windows scheduler is programmed to not keep a long application work thread allocated to a particular core indefinitely, but to periodically rotate it between a pair of two cores. The rationale behind this is thermal management (spreading the heat across two cores that are spatially apart).

On monolithic multi-core chips such as the i9-9900 or i9-9980XE, in which all cores not only sit on the same die, but are also part of the same group (no CCX here), core rotation works as intended, as all cores share the L3 cache, and a relieving core can pick up work from where its rotation pair partner has left off, by pulling data from the L3 cache.

AMD's "Zen" multi-core topology complicates this, as not all cores share the same L3 cache; and in 12-core, 16-core, or Threadrippers, not all cores sit on the same die. This is where CPPC2 fits in, giving Windows the awareness of the topology it needs, so it can rotate threads among cores without hurting performance by forcing workloads onto a core that uses a separate instance of cache, which forces data reloads from RAM. So how does CPPC2-reported "favored cores" fit into the scheme of things? CPPC2 deliberately misreports "favored cores" to the Windows scheduler — to build core rotation pairs within localized groups of cores, rather than picking cores from different CCXs or CCDs to build rotation pairs.

"Ryzen Master, using firmware readings, selects the single best voltage/frequency curve in the entire processor from the perspective of overclocking. When you see the gold star, it means that is the one core with the best overclocking potential. As we explained during the launch of 2nd Gen Ryzen, we thought that this could be useful for people trying for frequency records on Ryzen," reads the AMD blog on the discrepancy between Ryzen Master "best cores" and CPPC2 Preferred Cores. "Overall, it's clear that the OS-Hardware relationship is getting more complex every day. In 2018, we imagined that the starred cores would be useful for extreme overclockers. In 2019, we see that this is simply being conflated with a much more sophisticated set of OS decisions, and there's not enough room for nuance and context to make that clear. That's why we're going to bring Ryzen Master inline with what the OS is doing so everything is visibly in agreement, and the system continues along as-designed with peak performance," it adds. "Best cores" and "preferred cores" are hence both "right." The former refers to a physically high-quality core, while the other is more "circumstantial", for better performance.

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So it's to mitigate Windows poor management of resources based on outdated ideas of thermal needs for other branded processors?

Why AMD doesn't just come out with this info is beyond me, it's not like people won't understand that MS does a shitty job of making Windows run the best these days.
 
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I used to believe that in the past Intel paid m$ to sabotage performance on AMD chips, that opinion changed over the years. This shows how AMD seems to have avoided working with m$ to improve performance within Windows. Now m$ has no excuse but to improve the performance relationship between windows and AMD/Ryzen. Something Intel should fear, I would think, fear of an AMD CPU advantage, however, I also think Intel could benefit from these changes in the long run.
 
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The problem for AMD is that we as consumers are kind of dumb to the advanced nature of what they are dealing with. We assume too much.
 
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Lmao, with every passing day i feel more and more scammed for buying a 3700x and Crosshair VII x470 board

You dumb asshole, Axaion.
 
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AMD didn't "admit" anything, they explained the discrepancy. I don't believe they ever specified what Ryzen Master indicates when it labels the "best" cores.

Lmao, with every passing day i feel more and more scammed for buying a 3700x and Crosshair VII x470 board

You dumb asshole, Axaion.

... why? This has zero impact on users.
 
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AMD didn't "admit" anything, they explained the discrepancy. I don't believe they ever specified what Ryzen Master indicates when it labels the "best" cores.

I agree. The thread title is lame like its insinuating something that isn't tehre.
 
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AMD didn't "admit" anything, they explained the discrepancy. I don't believe they ever specified what Ryzen Master indicates when it labels the "best" cores.



... why? This has zero impact on users.
That if they cant even get their own software right, then what hope is there?
 

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Huh, my best cores are the ones being utilized regardless of whether I use the 1usmus plans or Ryzen plans.

The difference, however, is that the Windows scheduler (being used on the Ryzen and Windows plans) likes to default to Core 0for light loads that don't require more cores. My best cores are 7, 5, 1, 3 in that order (the even numbered ones), indicated in Ryzen Master and verified in how they boost under load and chosen by the scheduler.

Problem is, Core 0 is by and far the worst core on die. It's ranked #8 in perf, and never exceeds 43.3x peak clock. And some applications, like CPU-Z in evaluating single-thread performance, aren't written to leverage any core except Core 0, regardless of power plan.

Because of the variations in production, many other Ryzen 3000 chips have Core 0 amongst their best 4 cores, but many others are unfortunately like mine. And when it comes to the Windows scheduler or simplistic programs, this results in a percentage of chips that either can't make use of maximum available single thread performance, or can't benchmark to reflect their true performance.

An example of how mediocre 7nm yields and binning combine with terrible Windows scheduling and core assignment to create one hell of a silicon lottery.
 
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Lmao, with every passing day i feel more and more scammed for buying a 3700x and Crosshair VII x470 board

You dumb asshole, Axaion.

Im not disagreeing with your self assessment, but for different reasons.
 
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That if they cant even get their own software right, then what hope is there?

Dude, you didn't read the explanation. We as dumb consumers are assuming that it means best core. That's not what it means by preferred core.
 
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Lmao, with every passing day i feel more and more scammed for buying a 3700x and Crosshair VII x470 board

You dumb asshole, Axaion.
Sell it and buy an Intel. You'll feel better. Right?
 

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The difference, however, is that the Windows scheduler (being used on the Ryzen and Windows plans) likes to default to Core 0for light loads that don't require more cores. My best cores are 7, 5, 1, 3 in that order (the even numbered ones), indicated in Ryzen Master and verified in how they boost under load and chosen by the scheduler.

Isn't this supposed to be addressed by 1909's optimization with favored cores?
 

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Isn't this supposed to be addressed by 1909's optimization with favored cores?

Doesn't work if the program only ever uses Core 0 regardless of what anyone or anything tells it to do. On both 1903 and 1909, I still get the same behaviour on Windows plans - low single thread load stays on Core 0. 1usmus plan makes sure that single thread load migrates to Core 5 or 7. Even the effective clock (taken from an average) on Core 0 tends to be lower than the others.

All 1909 means is that Windows will try to allocate load to the best cores. Keyword: try. A lot of the time, Windows doesn't even try. The custom plan tries to force Windows to use best cores, which is pretty visible.

There's also the Windows practice of shuffling load between cores all the time.

Whatever Microsoft claims to be doing, it doesn't change the fact that the Windows scheduler is trash. Which is why I find certain other sites' unfounded ridicule of the 1usmus plan hilarious; YOU as the reviewer may have gotten a golden 3900X with an absolutely shining Core 0, meaning you don't see much benefit from the plan, that doesn't mean EVERYONE got the same return on their investment.
 
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That if they cant even get their own software right, then what hope is there?

Their software is right, people just assumed it meant something other than what it does.
 
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Their software is right, people just assumed it meant something other than what it does.

This is kind of why imo AMD always gets flack for peoples assumptions.
 
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AMD software maybe right but what matters just as much is microsofts software and how it works AMD software into windows. If AMD and m$ dont work together on the integration of their software with each others software, than when issue rise, it comes down to finger pointing. Its no secret that m$ doesnt appear to like AMD as AMD loves to pass around a headache or two.
 
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Huh, my best cores are the ones being utilized regardless of whether I use the 1usmus plans or Ryzen plans.

The difference, however, is that the Windows scheduler (being used on the Ryzen and Windows plans) likes to default to Core 0for light loads that don't require more cores. My best cores are 7, 5, 1, 3 in that order (the even numbered ones), indicated in Ryzen Master and verified in how they boost under load and chosen by the scheduler.

Problem is, Core 0 is by and far the worst core on die. It's ranked #8 in perf, and never exceeds 43.3x peak clock. And some applications, like CPU-Z in evaluating single-thread performance, aren't written to leverage any core except Core 0, regardless of power plan.

Because of the variations in production, many other Ryzen 3000 chips have Core 0 amongst their best 4 cores, but many others are unfortunately like mine. And when it comes to the Windows scheduler or simplistic programs, this results in a percentage of chips that either can't make use of maximum available single thread performance, or can't benchmark to reflect their true performance.

An example of how mediocre 7nm yields and binning combine with terrible Windows scheduling and core assignment to create one hell of a silicon lottery.
Woah... So it's like a meta-level silicon lottery. That's deep.
 

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I had previously heard of 4.75 GHz from Robert in the video. Today I read: "We have proprietary software, but we do not guarantee that the information is correct, therefore we will use OS labels"

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Sounds like your typical legacy baggage scenario. Windows can try to use what’s best, but some programs don’t want that so Windows has to default to core0. IMO, it’s the price to pay for extended backward compatibility. If you just update your Mac (if you have one), 32bit programs just went by the wayside. If Windows ever tried that, well, you’d have something slightly better than W10 S mode.
 
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Discrepancy between best cores and preferred cores has nothing to do with Microsoft, Windows or Windows scheduler. It is AMD not properly communicating what exactly these mean.

Ryzen 3000 CPUs should be the first mainstream CPUs that have "best performing cores" in this way. This was part of the discussion/argument/controversy about Ryzen 3000 boost clock speeds. So far, all mainstream CPUs have had spec boost speeds than any core can reach, making need for scheduler optimization to keep work on specific high-performing cores secondary.
 
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Sell it and buy an Intel. You'll feel better. Right?
If you want to buy it at retail price, ill sell it to you :)

@others, eh i only read the post here so yeah, is it another thing like nvidia boxes being a requirement? :p
 

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Discrepancy between best cores and preferred cores has nothing to do with Microsoft, Windows or Windows scheduler. It is AMD not properly communicating what exactly these mean.

Ryzen 3000 CPUs should be the first mainstream CPUs that have "best performing cores" in this way. This was part of the discussion/argument/controversy about Ryzen 3000 boost clock speeds. So far, all mainstream CPUs have had spec boost speeds than any core can reach, making need for scheduler optimization to keep work on specific high-performing cores secondary.

I think AMD made the same mistake Microsoft did and marked the "best cores" without taking into account that threads should stay within the same CCX for optimal performance.
Because when you "prefer" something that is not "best", something's definitely amiss.
 
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Display(s) Philips 43PUS8857/12 UHD TV (120Hz, HDR, FreeSync Premium) ---- 19'' HP monitor + BlitzWolf BW-V5
Case Sharkoon Rebel 12 / Sharkoon Rebel 9 / Xigmatek Midguard
Audio Device(s) onboard
Power Supply Chieftec 850W / Silver Power 400W / Sharkoon 650W
Mouse CoolerMaster Devastator III Plus / Coolermaster Devastator / Logitech
Keyboard CoolerMaster Devastator III Plus / Coolermaster Devastator / Logitech
Software Windows 10 / Windows 10 / Windows 7
If you want to buy it at retail price, ill sell it to you :)

I never said that I want to feel, the way you feel.
Also I never said that I would like to describe myself, the way you described yourself.
 
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