AMD CPU overclocking

This simple and effective tool automates AMD Ryzen overclocking. A comprehensive auto-overclocking tool for AMD Ryzen processors built using the Zen 2 architecture has been released.

AMD Ryzen 3000 processors aren’t known for having great overclocking power but it’s often just assumed that AMD might have pushed these chips to the edge or near the limit which means that you don’t have to worry about performance from the start.

This is developed by Yuri Bubliy, that same person who also created the popular DRAM Calculator tool for Ryzen, CTR helps you find the hidden performance which is lying just inside the chip and often it’s left untapped. You can simply load up the CTR software and it will start to evaluate each and every core complex on your processor. Its way of work has many factors and variables, but not to forget that CTR helps you to find those that will operate at the highest frequency for the least amount of power possible.

Once the software knows its work and the user has run the diagnostic step, you can then hit the start button and let the CTR do its magic, it adjusts frequencies and voltages to maintain the optimum performance and energy efficiency. One you find the perfect setting for you then click create and save the profile, after that head to the built-in benchmark to see the result.

Many Ryzen processors can naturally clock to higher values, but with less voltage than others. But whatever, CTR is an easy way to find that information and clock according to your needs.

And the reason for such a tool as this comes down to the very core of the Zen 2 architecture. Using multiple chiplets, AMD is offering a high spread of processing cores for less price, and within each of those chiplets, or CCDs, is a handful of CCXs (a complex of processing cores). Each CCX can have up to four-cores with the Zen 2 architecture, and the number of CCXs will depend on your chip. The Ryzen Threadripper 3990X has more core clusters than the hexacore Ryzen 5 3600.

With Zen 3 sure to follow the lead of Zen 2’s, we are expecting similar uses for such a tool with the latest generation of Ryzen processors.

Pictures used in this article are from Yuri Bubliy.

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Originally published at https://www.arenaoftech.com on October 7, 2020.