AMD 7900X Retested – PBO, SMT & Overclocked

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

In Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, the worlds of Peter Parker and Spider-Man collide in an original, action-packed story. Play as an experienced Peter Parker, fighting big crime and iconic villains in Marvel’s New York. Web-swing through vibrant neighbourhoods and defeat villains with epic takedowns.

Available now on Steam.

Booting up Spider-Man and we finally see a game that’s able to utilise SMT being disabled as we now see an 11% increase in frames over the stock 9700X result and enabling PBO at max limits in conjunction with SMT being off increases that performance, albeit by a 1% margin, but it does mean that the combination pushes out 13% more performance over the stock result of 184 FPS.

Enabling Ray Tracing and we see a similar trend with SMT being disabled gives us a 3% uplift, and combining that with PBO at max limits sees that increase again, but we’re then at a point of margin of error. PBO set to Max and keeping SMT is the best result here for the new Zen 5 CPU at 124 FPS, so it seems the CPU knows better at automatically adjusting that potentially what the user does.