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AMD's latest updates address 9000X desktop CPU performance issues

AMD has addressed performance issues on Ryzen 9000-series processors with several new updates.

After arriving two weeks late, AMD's Ryzen 9000-series desktop processors disappointed some buyers and reviewers due to lackluster performance. Though AMD called this a "corner case," the latest BIOS update cuts the number of transactions in half, helping latency in that scenario. Still on the speed theme, AMD noted that X870 and X870E motherboards are now available with support for PCIe Gen 5 graphics (i.e., the upcoming NVIDIA RTX 5000 GPUs), NVMe storage and USB4 as standard.

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