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Ryzen CPU owners can now download better gaming performance thanks to a Windows 11 update

Gaming performance will jump by 10 percent for some Ryzen chips.

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. 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.

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