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I have just started getting around to checking my performance with my 3900X. My results are as follow:

ST: 497
MT: 7340

PBO settings are the default that came with my Taichi X570. I believe it is set to "Enabled" and all the values are 0. It so far has given me my best multi-thread value. So much to dig in to with PBO...

I am still on 1.0.0.3 ABBA so I am going to pop 1.0.0.4 up and see what kind of difference I get. I am on Win 10 1909 so I should have the new Ryzen scheduler rolling. I haven't done 1usmus's power plan yet either so I will likely try that out.

What I did notice is that when running Cinebench ST, the thread it was using was on the 2nd ccx which is the slowest on mine. Cores 0 - 5 all can boost to 4599 - to 4649 so I was fairly surprised that the second ccx was being used as I thought that scheduler knows to send to the best ccx regardless of 1usmus's power plan installed. My multi-thread score seems pretty inline with what a stock config score should be so perhaps throwing the new power plan and stepping up to 1.0.0.4 is all I really need to do.

What else have all the Zen 2 people done?

Edit:

Also, I am still reading through some of the Zen 2 threads so I may find what I need. Mods, also feel free to throw this into another thread if you see fit. I just didn't want to hijack another's.
 

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You can chime in on @lorry's thread if he don't mind; he has a 3900X that he's been trying to optimize for the past couple of months. Your MT score isn't anything out of the ordinary, which is good.

I'm not aware of any way you can force CB to run on a better core, just like how CPU-Z is still directed to use Core 0 for its ST test. 1.0.0.4B, latest chipset drivers, 1909, and whatever plan you like between Ryzen Balanced and 1usmus...there's not much you can do.

That said, your PBO may allow you to push boost clocks up a bit. Running either "balls-to-the-wall" manual PBO settings or a middle of the road 2X scalar and -7A EDC allows me to boost past rated boost occasionally (44.3x) on my best cores. You can play around with the scalar in there to see if it makes a difference. On mine, CPU-Z suffers as Core 0 is my worst, but PBO helps it boost a little higher as well (usually stuck at 42.8x).

On my 3700X, CB seems to gravitate towards one of my two best cores which run the test at close to 44x. Score is 507. Ideally, 3900X generally runs ST in the 520s.

The ST test also takes a little while. Make sure there's nothing to distract the system while the test completes, including sleep/screen off, Dropbox, and other background programs that might chime in with notifications/other unwanted usage. CB hates Dropbox on my rig.
 
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What I did notice is that when running Cinebench ST, the thread it was using was on the 2nd ccx which is the slowest on mine. Cores 0 - 5 all can boost to 4599 - to 4649 so I was fairly surprised that the second ccx was being used as I thought that scheduler knows to send to the best ccx regardless of 1usmus's power plan installed.
Do you have the option/s in the BIOS called Collaborative Power Performance Control turned on?

It supposedly allows the Windows Scheduler to know which is the better core to boost.

I was wrong the Intel equivalent is Speedshift.

"With "Zen 2", AMD introduced a platform feature called UEFI CPPC2 (UEFI collaborative power and performance control). This capability puts the processor's on-die firmware in complete control of clock-speed/voltage selection at all times."

 
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You can chime in on @lorry's thread if he don't mind; he has a 3900X that he's been trying to optimize for the past couple of months. Your MT score isn't anything out of the ordinary, which is good.

I'm not aware of any way you can force CB to run on a better core, just like how CPU-Z is still directed to use Core 0 for its ST test. 1.0.0.4B, latest chipset drivers, 1909, and whatever plan you like between Ryzen Balanced and 1usmus...there's not much you can do.

That said, your PBO may allow you to push boost clocks up a bit. Running either "balls-to-the-wall" manual PBO settings or a middle of the road 2X scalar and -7A EDC allows me to boost past rated boost occasionally (44.3x) on my best cores. You can play around with the scalar in there to see if it makes a difference. On mine, CPU-Z suffers as Core 0 is my worst, but PBO helps it boost a little higher as well (usually stuck at 42.8x).

On my 3700X, CB seems to gravitate towards one of my two best cores which run the test at close to 44x. Score is 507. Ideally, 3900X generally runs ST in the 520s.

The ST test also takes a little while. Make sure there's nothing to distract the system while the test completes, including sleep/screen off, Dropbox, and other background programs that might chime in with notifications/other unwanted usage. CB hates Dropbox on my rig.

I am hesitant to mess with PBO too much as 6 cores will already boost at or above 4.6 and my others are 4.3 to 4.4.
Do you have the option/s in the BIOS called Collaborative Power Performance Control turned on?

It supposedly allows the Windows Scheduler to know which is the better core to boost.

I'll need to check that.
 
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Your MT score looks pretty good for mostly stock ST should be around 520+ though so for whatever reason your system seems to be using a lesser core/thread. At the same time I wouldn't be overly concerned it will make zero difference on your MT performance.
It could also just be something running in the background or a specific process weighing you down. I've noticed that depending on how the boards auto settings are PBO can slightly boost MT performance while slightly decreasing ST performance. I have to manually disable it for best ST performance on my Aorus Master.
 
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Your MT score looks pretty good for mostly stock ST should be around 520+ though so for whatever reason your system seems to be using a lesser core/thread. At the same time I wouldn't be overly concerned it will make zero difference on your MT performance.
It could also just be something running in the background or a specific process weighing you down. I've noticed that depending on how the boards auto settings are PBO can slightly boost MT performance while slightly decreasing ST performance. I have to manually disable it for best ST performance on my Aorus Master.

Yeah, not so much concerned as I thought it was odd that the scheduler in 1909 was aware of which cores/ccxs should be scheduled first. It seems likely that I don't have the proper setting set in the bios.
 
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You can chime in on @lorry's thread if he don't mind; he has a 3900X that he's been trying to optimize for the past couple of months. Your MT score isn't anything out of the ordinary, which is good.

I'm not aware of any way you can force CB to run on a better core, just like how CPU-Z is still directed to use Core 0 for its ST test. 1.0.0.4B, latest chipset drivers, 1909, and whatever plan you like between Ryzen Balanced and 1usmus...there's not much you can do.

That said, your PBO may allow you to push boost clocks up a bit. Running either "balls-to-the-wall" manual PBO settings or a middle of the road 2X scalar and -7A EDC allows me to boost past rated boost occasionally (44.3x) on my best cores. You can play around with the scalar in there to see if it makes a difference. On mine, CPU-Z suffers as Core 0 is my worst, but PBO helps it boost a little higher as well (usually stuck at 42.8x).

On my 3700X, CB seems to gravitate towards one of my two best cores which run the test at close to 44x. Score is 507. Ideally, 3900X generally runs ST in the 520s.

The ST test also takes a little while. Make sure there's nothing to distract the system while the test completes, including sleep/screen off, Dropbox, and other background programs that might chime in with notifications/other unwanted usage. CB hates Dropbox on my rig.

I've no objection at all, if you find anything of use to you on there, great.
Join in if you want, or whatever works best for you.
BTW, my best scores are 514/7414, but it took quite a while to get to that and your CB scores are very typical.
Theresa thread i think either on here or on AMD forums re CB score.
 
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Do you have the option/s in the BIOS called Collaborative Power Performance Control turned on?

It supposedly allows the Windows Scheduler to know which is the better core to boost.

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"With "Zen 2", AMD introduced a platform feature called UEFI CPPC2 (UEFI collaborative power and performance control). This capability puts the processor's on-die firmware in complete control of clock-speed/voltage selection at all times."

This is a follow up to that article...

I have just started getting around to checking my performance with my 3900X. My results are as follow:

ST: 497
MT: 7340

PBO settings are the default that came with my Taichi X570. I believe it is set to "Enabled" and all the values are 0. It so far has given me my best multi-thread value. So much to dig in to with PBO...

I am still on 1.0.0.3 ABBA so I am going to pop 1.0.0.4 up and see what kind of difference I get. I am on Win 10 1909 so I should have the new Ryzen scheduler rolling. I haven't done 1usmus's power plan yet either so I will likely try that out.

What I did notice is that when running Cinebench ST, the thread it was using was on the 2nd ccx which is the slowest on mine. Cores 0 - 5 all can boost to 4599 - to 4649 so I was fairly surprised that the second ccx was being used as I thought that scheduler knows to send to the best ccx regardless of 1usmus's power plan installed. My multi-thread score seems pretty inline with what a stock config score should be so perhaps throwing the new power plan and stepping up to 1.0.0.4 is all I really need to do.

What else have all the Zen 2 people done?

Edit:

Also, I am still reading through some of the Zen 2 threads so I may find what I need. Mods, also feel free to throw this into another thread if you see fit. I just didn't want to hijack another's.
Regardless of 1usmus's power plan (if you install it or not) you should do the following if not already.

1. Letest AGESA (BIOS/UEFI version) for your board.
2. Win10 v1909
3. Latest chipset drivers (November) directly from AMD (not Asrock).

UEFI settings
  • Global C-state Control = Enabled
  • Power Supply Idle Control = Low Current Idle
  • CPPC = Enabled
  • CPPC Preferred Cores = Enabled
  • AMD Cool'n'Quiet = Enabled
  • PPC Adjustment = PState 0
optional:
4. 1usmus's custom PowerPlan v1.1 (for win v1909) for Ryzen (ZEN2) CPUs. (definately need those UEFI settings)

PBO settings are not as scary as it seems, and just raising all 3 individual limits of PPT/TDC/EDC accomplishes nothing (positive or negative).
PBO Scalar on the other hand does but first thing first...

Know you CPU...
After the above 1,2,3 at least (I strongly suggest 4. too) open HWiNFO64 (latest ver.) and look the "Core 1/2/3... clock (perf #x/x)"
Second (/x) is the order of best quality cores reported by the CPU itself. First (x/) is the order Win10 scheduler chooses to load. It may be the same in some CPUs but also very different to others.

Look screenshot below...
This is my 3600 after 3 hours of browsing and YT videos, nothing heavy load. If all is working as intented it should look like this. Notice the perf# order x/x and then the last (avg) column of effective clock. You can see what threads getting the most load.

HWiNFO_14_01_2020b.png


The CPU has 1 CCD with 2 CCXs.
Core 0/1/2 is CCX1
Core 3/4/5 is CCX2

Core 0 T0 is a physical core thread
Core 0 T1 is a logical core thread
and so on...

You can see in "eff clock" red box that cores 0/1/2 works more than 3/4/5 because win scheduler chooses so...
The effective clock in general contains the sleeping states of the cores. The higher eff clock a core has, the lesser in sleep state it is. (that sounds like yoda talking...)
The arising question is why win scheduler prefers cores 0/1/2 instead of 1/2/3, the 3 best of all. The answer is rather simple... Its trying to keep loads in 1 CCX as possible for lower latency.
Things get a lot more complicated when a CPU has 2 CCDs and 4 CCXs and the highest quality cores are scattered across all 4 CCXs...
This kind of behaviour is applied to every non all core load. From 1 single thread load, up to -1~2 threads from all threaded load.

What is the situation with yours?
 
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This is a follow up to that article...


Regardless of 1usmus's power plan (if you install it or not) you should do the following if not already.

1. Letest AGESA (BIOS/UEFI version) for your board.
2. Win10 v1909
3. Latest chipset drivers (November) directly from AMD (not Asrock).

UEFI settings
  • Global C-state Control = Enabled
  • Power Supply Idle Control = Low Current Idle
  • CPPC = Enabled
  • CPPC Preferred Cores = Enabled
  • AMD Cool'n'Quiet = Enabled
  • PPC Adjustment = PState 0
optional:
4. 1usmus's custom PowerPlan v1.1 (for win v1909) for Ryzen (ZEN2) CPUs. (definately need those UEFI settings)

2 and 3 are done. I am suspecting that some bios settings are not set (or HWInfo is a few versions behind) because I do not have entries for effective clock. I'll take a gander now.
 
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2 and 3 are done. I am suspecting that some bios settings are not set (or HWInfo is a few versions behind) because I do not have entries for effective clock. I'll take a gander now.

latest version is 6.21-4040


Your MT score looks pretty good for mostly stock ST should be around 520+ though so for whatever reason your system seems to be using a lesser core/thread. At the same time I wouldn't be overly concerned it will make zero difference on your MT performance.
It could also just be something running in the background or a specific process weighing you down. I've noticed that depending on how the boards auto settings are PBO can slightly boost MT performance while slightly decreasing ST performance. I have to manually disable it for best ST performance on my Aorus Master.

I think that my MB is limiting my ST score (Gigabyte Aorus x470 gaming 7) as my best ST is 514, and/or a heavy process
 
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I think that my MB is limiting my ST score (Gigabyte Aorus x470 gaming 7) as my best ST is 514, and/or a heavy process

That's less than 3% though of what I typically see which I'd consider margin of error
 
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That's less than 3% though of what I typically see which I'd consider margin of error

Trouble is there are so many variables between users. One may have several manufacturers' software running whilst another has no RGB and controls their fans via the MB

Just out of interest, is there any software which would close multiple apps and background services for a benchmark and then turn them back on afterwards?
 
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Trouble is there are so many variables between users. One may have several manufacturers' software running whilst another has no RGB and controls their fans via the MB

Just out of interest, is there any software which would close multiple apps and background services for a benchmark and then turn them back on afterwards?

Probably, I've usually never concern myself with that stuff even my 9900k and 3900X results I've posted here have icue and other crap running in the backround..... I was determined once to get over 5400 with my 9900k and turned everything else off but other than that I haven't cared much.
 
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Probably, I've usually never concern myself with that stuff even my 9900k and 3900X results I've posted here have icue and other crap running in the backround..... I was determined once to get over 5400 with my 9900k and turned everything else off but other than that I haven't cared much.

I was thinking more about during gameplay than benchmarking, but effectively they are the same reason here
 
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I was thinking more about during gameplay than benchmarking, but effectively they are the same reason here


Even with a ton of Crap running in the backround my 3900X doesn't feel any different than my 5ghz 9900k at 1440p with a 2080 ti sure if I use RivaTuner and look at a fps and graph the 9900k is a little higher at times but not enough for a blind test.... To me half the reason to get a high core count chip like this is so that you don't have to worry much about what is or isn't running in the background.

If you're a 1080p esport gamer and do this professionally then I could get behind limiting background stuff or have a pathetically slow cpu that barely meets the games requirements, but short of having a 2080 ti at 1080p it's just not going to matter in the majority of games.
 
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Even with a ton of Crap running in the backround my 3900X doesn't feel any different than my 5ghz 9900k at 1440p with a 2080 ti sure if I use RivaTuner and look at a fps and graph the 9900k is a little higher at times but not enough for a blind test.... To me half the reason to get a high core count chip like this is so that you don't have to worry much about what is or isn't running in the background.

If you're a 1080p esport gamer and do this professionally then I could get behind limiting background stuff, but short of having a 2080 ti at 1080p it's just not going to matter in the majority of games.

I tend to use an app called FPS Monitor I think it's called, as you can configure it to show pretty much what you want at any time on screen, gameplay not needed.
I have one profile set up to show CPU, GPU & Ram fans speeds clock speeds, temps & and voltage.


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Really the typical user should not care about background unless there is some short of bottleneck, Ram usage (%) or CPU cores/threads. I dont care about background tasks even with ½ cores and threads of a 3900X. Cant tell in desktop or in gaming if the system is running 50 or 150 services. Only benchmark scores are affected by them and by a small margin. The system feels snappy and smooth on all scenarios.
 
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Alright, so after plenty of digging through the Bios....

Cppc was disabled but cppc preferred was enabled. Imagine that. Flipping the switch brought single threaded up to 524. Another mem tweak puts my multithreaded up to 7360.
 
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Alright, so after plenty of digging through the Bios....

Cppc was disabled but cppc preferred was enabled. Imagine that. Flipping the switch brought single threaded up to 524. Another mem tweak puts my multithreaded up to 7360.
Nice!
Now if you like post a sreenshot of HWiNFO while CB-R20, like this

HWiNFO_06_01_2020_99_60_63_x3_newpaste_cool.png

To have it identical as mine you should open HWiNFO and R20, start the bench and as soon as it starts filling boxes and progress hit the clock down right on HW window to reset values. Right before it finishes take the screenshot (I believe yours will take about ~40sec to finish). This way you will isolate values to the bench time only...
 
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Alright, so after plenty of digging through the Bios....

Cppc was disabled but cppc preferred was enabled. Imagine that. Flipping the switch brought single threaded up to 524. Another mem tweak puts my multithreaded up to 7360.

Pretty similar to mine - 514 single thread, 7410 multi

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Looks like a case of poo 1st ccd, decent 2nd. (or.. at least peak core isnt exactly the greatest on your binned ccd)
Other way around for me, i'm getting ~530 SC, slightly sub 7400 (consistently, all stock, no pbo)
 
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Looks like a case of poo 1st ccd, decent 2nd. (or.. at least peak core isnt exactly the greatest on your binned ccd)
Other way around for me, i'm getting ~530 SC, slightly sub 7400 (consistently, all stock, no pbo)

Lucky you
I'm still unsure that I have all the various BIOS settings correct

@Calmmo were you talking about mine or Zach's or moproblems ?
 
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Looks like a case of poo 1st ccd, decent 2nd. (or.. at least peak core isnt exactly the greatest on your binned ccd)
Other way around for me, i'm getting ~530 SC, slightly sub 7400 (consistently, all stock, no pbo)
This is what better cooling can achieve...
What are your temps during R20? I bet under 70 for all core.
You could gain some more using PBO, but not just enabling it. Some tweaking must be made.
 
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1. Letest AGESA (BIOS/UEFI version) for your board.
2. Win10 v1909
3. Latest chipset drivers (November) directly from AMD (not Asrock).

UEFI settings
  • Global C-state Control = Enabled
  • Power Supply Idle Control = Low Current Idle
  • CPPC = Enabled
  • CPPC Preferred Cores = Enabled
  • AMD Cool'n'Quiet = Enabled
  • PPC Adjustment = PState 0

All of those are done now except I don't have the bottom two settings. Or they are named something else.

So, interestingly, after updating to 1.0.0.4b, my boost clocks dropped about 75-100mhz all core. My max all core is now 4075. All of my previously saved profiles were not usable anymore so I could have possibly missed a setting or something got reset that I didn't know.

I'm done for the night but I'll be back on it some tomorrow I think.
 
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All of those are done now except I don't have the bottom two settings. Or they are named something else.

So, interestingly, after updating to 1.0.0.4b, my boost clocks dropped about 75-100mhz all core. My max all core is now 4075. All of my previously saved profiles were not usable anymore so I could have possibly missed a setting or something got reset that I didn't know.

I'm done for the night but I'll be back on it some tomorrow I think.

As far as I'm aware Coo'n'quiet is auto enabled if it isn't listed (it's not in my bios settings either)
 
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