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That’s how it looksyou don’t have to worry about giving priority to the ‘wrong’ CCD at the most inopportune time – from the BIOS test, we understand that the user will be able to change this ‘priority’, at least for the Ryzen 9 models.

The upcoming Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900X3D processors will offer the ability to manually adjust CCD priority via the BIOS, according to new details that have come to light. A well-known leaker HXL on the social network Twitter posted some images showing that the test BIOS of an ASUS motherboard based on the AMD X670 chipset (ASUS X670 beta BIOS) allows the user to adjust the workloads assigned to each processor CCD. This is a very cool and useful feature, given the way select Ryzen 9 processors are configured. The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900 X3D processors have two CCDs – separate chips that contain the processor cores – but only one stack of the extra 3D cache. Since other CCDs do not include a “sensitive” 3D cache, they also have the highest boost clock frequency (Boost Clock), something that has been confirmed by AMD itself.

What we really need to take away from this Twitter user’s HXL post is that some workloads – like games, for example – benefit most from cache while others benefit more from a higher clock frequency. In fact, some types of games may benefit more from a boost overclock. In theory, any application or game that takes advantage of CCD is something that happens seamlessly and behind the scenes between Windows and the AMD driver, but there’s always the possibility that things may not work as they should. So what this trial version of ASUS BIOS does is allow the user to manually prioritize one of the two CCDs to enjoy peak performance on a case-by-case basis, bypassing the driver and OS. At the moment, we don’t know if this feature will only be offered by motherboards based on the AMD X670 chipset, or if it will also be offered by cheaper models. The new AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900X3D processors are scheduled to become available on February 28th.