AMD 2920X 12-Core 24-Thread Processor Review
Peter Donnell / 6 years ago
Overclocking
Using AMD’s Ryzen Master Utility software, I enabled PBO (Precision Boost Overdrive) and DLM (Dynamic Local Mode). Using these two features allows the CPU to dynamically overclock the CPU so long as there is thermal overhead on the CPU cooler, and ensure that applications get the cores and memory resources they require. For me, it seems to work much better than trying to manually overclock Threadripper CPUs. Of course, the results speak for themselves. The 3DMark score increased a few hundred points, and we even shaved another 2 seconds off of the WPrime score too. There was almost no improvement to single core performance in Cinebench, but the multi-core score was getting near 3000 points after a few tweaks! The most drastic improvement, however, was Tomb Raider, which saw another 13 FPS added to its performance.
Performance
- 3DMark: 21554 > 21890
- WPrime: 64.221 > 62.11
- CineBench R15: 175/2666 > 176/2971
- Rise of the Tomb Raider: 168/181
3DMark Firestrike
WPrime
Cinebench R15
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Power Consumption
Stock
Overclocked
Temperatures
Stock
Overclocked
