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AMD boosts Zen 5 official warrantied TDP to 105W, fixes Ryzen 9000 latency issue, launches 800-series chipsets

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AMD made a slew of announcements about its latest progress with its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 processors, with the most important announcement being that the company will now fully support a performance-boosting 105W TDP mode with its Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X models. The company also outlined the arrival of game-boosting branch prediction optimizations to the mainline Windows versions, tweaks that improve Ryzen 9000’s core-to-core latency, support for DDR5-8000 EXPO memory kits, and the long-awaited arrival of the 800-series chipsets.

AMD has added the improvements to its firmware with AGESA version 1.2.0.2, applicable to any motherboard with an AM5 socket. 

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