Gigabyte has presented its new motherboard feature, claiming it can boost gaming performance substantially with a single click. This uplift includes both regular and X3D chips.
According to the brand’s presentation, all its X870 and X870E motherboards come with a feature dubbed X3D Turbo Boost. This BIOS option tunes power, core distribution, and bandwidth to extract more performance out of AMD’s Ryzen 9000X, 9000X3D, and even 7000X3D processors with a single click. Yep, even non-X3D CPUs can benefit from it, as long as you own an X870/X870E motherboard. In fact, non-X3D chips see a higher uplift than their 3D V-Cache counterparts.
To be more specific, Gigabyte talks about a 3.56% boost in Far Cry 6, 4.5% in Horizon Zero Dawn, and 5.01% in Tomb Raider using a Ryzen 9800X3D at 1080p resolution. Interestingly, the CPU that benefited the most isn’t even an X3D part. Ryzen 9 9950X saw a 7.31% increase in Horizon Zero Dawn, 9.39% in Tomb Raider, and an impressive 17.98% in Far Cry 6. It seems that last-gen Ryzen 9 7950X3D also likes whatever Gigabyte is doing, showing an 8.53% boost in Tomb Raider, 11.03% in Horizon Zero Dawn, and 16.14% in Far Cry 6.
In other words, if you own a Gigabyte AM5 motherboard plus a Ryzen 9000X, 9000X3D, or 7000X3D Series CPU, you simply need to update to the latest BIOS to unlock this setting. According to Gigabyte, enabling this option on a non-X3D CPU is like owning an X3D chip.
It seems as though almost no one is left behind. The brand mentions all AM5 boards as compatible, meaning existing X670/X670E/B650, not to forget B850 should see the same support. Also, note that these new figures are much lower than the 35% uplift initially claimed by Gigabyte. But still, all the numbers are heading in the right direction.
Interested? The X3D Turbo Mode is integrated with AMD’s AGESA 1.2.0.2a beta BIOS update, which is available on the brand’s website. You can also download and install the Aorus AI Snatch app to check if the option is active. Enjoy.
