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AMD's Ryzen CPUs might be slower in PC games due to a weird Windows 11 bug
Apparent fix, to turn on hidden admin account, is a really bad idea
This comes courtesy of Hardware Unboxed (via VideoCardz) on YouTube, which noticed in its review of the Ryzen 9700X that the results for gaming were a few percent shy of what AMD expected (going by Team Red’s own internal testing). Some games showed a big difference, notably Cyberpunk 2077 which was 7% faster (at 1080p, with an RTX 4090 graphics card, to put the emphasis on the CPU) with the hidden admin account active. In fact, the last-gen CPUs get nearly as much benefit from the hidden admin trick compared to the new Zen 5 silicon – though Ryzen 9000 does show notably bigger gains in a few games.
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