In the present day, AMD unveiled extra particulars like specs and efficiency relating to its newest Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs together with the 12-core 9900X3D. The corporate had already shared such info for the flagship 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D at CES 2025 earlier within the yr, although, right now’s announcement additionally added some attention-grabbing particulars about its efficiency expectations vs the 8-core 9800X3D (We reviewed it to see how near actuality the efficiency claims have been).

A brand new chipset driver was not too long ago rolled out with model 7.02.13.148 and it has a bunch of latest options baked in. For instance, a brand new PPKG performance makes it attainable to alter processors now with no want for OS reinstallation. There’s additionally a brand new function known as AMD app compatibility database driver that reinforces gaming efficiency in choose titles which have been beforehand arduous to optimize for. You may examine them in full on this article.

Apart from these, the newest chipset driver additionally brings an up to date 3D V-cache efficiency optimizer. About it, AMD says:

Optimizes Ryzen 9 X3D processors for each gaming and non-gaming duties by dynamically altering the “favoured” processor cores

What the 3D V-cache efficiency optimizer driver primarily does is assist Home windows schedule gaming duties to the CCD (core compute die) that has the 3D vertical cache. Not like the app compatibility database driver although, this isn’t new and has been round since 5800X3D days.

Concerning the up to date 3D V-cache efficiency optimizer, the changelog notes that it’s a “minor replace” that fixes a VBS-related challenge on Home windows 10. AMD doesn’t go into a lot element on this and solely states that it ought to now “correctly work” on Home windows 10 with VBS enabled.

I appeared on-line for some extra particulars relating to this and located that there’s an L3 cache reporting challenge on Home windows 10 that has been round since no less than 2023:

Home windows® 10 works with Virtualization-based safety (VBS) working however the L3 cache reporting could also be incorrect.

We’ve got reached out to AMD on this to see if extra particulars in regards to the mentioned challenge can be found. We are going to replace the submit if we get extra info.

Sadly, for anybody hoping for a efficiency patch for VBS, that’s unlikely to occur. VBS, or virtualization-based safety, even on a few of the latest Home windows variations, displays efficiency drops. Fortunately, Microsoft doesn’t allow it by default on Home windows 10.