With a massive 13% improvement in some games (some apps and games would experience no change), the only catch was that this free performance upgrade for Ryzen owners was limited to the Windows 11 24H2 ...

AMD has responded to the ongoing issue of its Zen 5, Zen 4, and even Zen 3 CPUs having lower performance in Windows when users aren't logged in with an admin account, suggesting a fix is coming soon.

Reviewers saw different results when testing Ryzen 9000 processors than AMD, and we now know why. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.