Fatal1ty B450 Gaming K4 - Performance mode?

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   With BIOS 1.80 under OC there is the option called Performance mode.

The options are:
Auto
Cinebench R15
Cinebench R11
Geekbench.

I noticed that when I select the option Cinebench R15 I get 20 points more in Cinebench R15 on 2600X.

Can someone explain what the options actually do?

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fbenniks Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 21 Feb 2019 Status: Offline Points: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote fbenniks Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Fatal1ty B450 Gaming K4 - Performance mode? Posted: 21 Feb 2019 at 11:53pm
	With BIOS 1.80 under OC there is the option called Performance mode. The options are: Auto Cinebench R15 Cinebench R11 Geekbench. I noticed that when I select the option Cinebench R15 I get 20 points more in Cinebench R15 on 2600X. Can someone explain what the options actually do?

xhue Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 17 Aug 2018 Status: Offline Points: 634	Post Options Post Reply Quote xhue Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Feb 2019 at 12:27am
	Although I have no concrete evidence what each option does, I'll take they are pretty self-explanatory. I'm not sure whether 20 points (I assume that's single-core score) in CB15 are worth it, though. More so, Ryzen 2000X have PBO & XFR2, which should enable you to reach the same if not higher scores while not being limited to benchmarks only.

Xaltar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 16 May 2015 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 27458	Post Options Post Reply Quote Xaltar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Feb 2019 at 2:20am
	They are just basic presets tailored for popular benchmarks I would guess. Like Xhue said, generally they are not worth using with Ryzen 2 given how well AMD has implemented it's XFR2 functionality. The general consensus by most reviewers is that Ryzen 2xxx actually performs better in gaming with it's stock settings. Now, if you are using heavily threaded workloads then setting up an all core overclock would provide a much more significant performance bump. As for what do they do, benchmarks generally test the performance of particular aspects of the system. 5 different CPU benchmarks could all test different areas of the CPU so a tailored setting will increase the performance of the particular areas the benchmark it was designed for tests. Some CPU benchmarks may prefer faster cache while others prefer faster FPUs etc.