A Puzzling Choice Has Been Reversed
When AMD announced the Ryzen 9000 processors this summer, a lot of attention was paid (initially, anyhow) to the company’s decision to limit the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X to just 65W. The previous generation’s Ryzen 5 7600X and Ryzen 7 7700X both have a 105W default TDP, so a regression to 65W for enthusiast “X” parts this generation made little sense.
AMD was clearly paying attention to the feedback, because we have already seen our first BIOS updates adding a 105W TDP option for these new Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 processors, and it is now being reported that AMD will be officially supporting the higher TDP – meaning full warranty coverage for running the parts at those power limits.
So, why release the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X at 65W in the first place? If AMD simply followed precedent there could have been non-X variants at 65W later, with the enthusiast parts offering the higher TDPs at launch. Yes, Zen 5 is a very efficient architecture, and it’s very impressive to see how far 65W can go, but multi-threaded workloads probably shouldn’t have been artificially limited at launch. At least that is being corrected, but users will have to check for updated BIOS from their motherboard vendors.
You can read more about the TDP change from the upcoming AGESA 1.2.0.2 at VideoCardz (source).
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