You
can’t
download
more
RAM,
but
you
can
now
download
better
gaming
performance
if
you’re
the
owner
of
a
modern
Ryzen
desktop
CPU.
AMD
revealed
last
week
that
it
was
working
with
Microsoft
on
an
optimization
patch
for
Ryzen
CPUs
that
was
due
with
Microsoft’s
next
big
Windows
11
version
24H2
update,
but
Microsoft
has
now
backported
this
to
the
existing
23H2
version.
The
result
is
a
significant
performance
improvement
in
gaming
across
a
variety
of
Zen
4
and
Zen
5
desktop
Ryzen
CPUs,
including
the
popular
7800X3D
chip.
“Users
will
need
to
look
for KB5041587 under
Windows
update
>
Advanced
options
>
Optional
updates,”
says
AMD
in
a
statement
to
Wccftech.
“We
expect
the
performance
uplift
to
be
very
similar
between
24H2
and
23H2
with KB5041587 installed.”
Reviewers
already
started
testing
Microsoft’s
24H2
update
for
Windows
11,
which
is
expected
to
be
available
in
late
September,
and
found
that
on
average
there’s
a
10
percent
performance
improvement
across
multiple
games
running
at
1080p
on
an
older
Ryzen
7700X.
On
the
latest
Ryzen
9700X,
Hardware
Unboxed
found
that
Windows
11
24H2
also
provides
an
11
percent
performance
improvement
on
average
in
the
same
game
tests.
Initial
benchmark
results
for
AMD’s
latest
Zen
5
desktop
CPUs
failed
to
impress
reviewers,
leading
to
the
revelation
that
AMD
and
Microsoft
have
been
working
to
optimize
AMD-specific
branch
prediction
code
in
Windows
11.
Now
that
Microsoft
has
backported
this
to
existing
Windows
11
version
23H2
installs,
you
no
longer
need
to
opt
into
Release
Preview
testing
to
get
24H2
and
the
Ryzen
CPU
performance
improvements.
Original author: Tom Warren
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