AMD officially launched the microcode of the AGESA 1.2.0.1 motherboard chipset that repaired some faults on the Ryzen 5000 series platform and improved the stability.
The BIOS update with the latest microcode driver will be launched by the motherboard maker.
AGESA 1.2.0.1 now arriving in public BIOSes for Ryzen 5000 Series!
1) Fix: False SMART errors on Hynix NVMe
2) Fix: Intermittent SSD detection for M.2 SATA devices
3) Improve L3$ bandwidth in AIDA64
4) Improve stability if user disables cores on 5600X/5800X with AMD Ryzen Master pic.twitter.com/KqGu78rqiE— AMD Ryzen (@AMDRyzen) February 25, 2021
The update log shows that AGESA 1.2.0.1 has made the following changes:
- Fix the problem that the SMART information of Hynix NVMe SSD is displayed incorrectly.
- Fix the problem of unstable detection of M.2 interface SATA protocol hard disk.
- Improved the performance of AIDA64 software in the L3 cache test.
- Improved the stability of Ryzen 5600X and 5800X after using AMD Ryzen Master to close some cores
The running scores of the two versions of the driver. It can be seen that the read speed of the L3 cache of the Ryzen R9-5950X has increased by more than 3 times, reaching 1022.5GB/s.
The writing speed has expanded by 2 times, reaching 848.15GB /s, Copy speed has also been greatly improved. However, the L3 cache delay has not changed, it is still 10.3ns.
MSI is the first to update the BIOS software for many of its X570 and B550 motherboards. The update log shows that the performance of the Ryzen CPU has been improved.
