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AMD updates 3D V-Cache optimizer driver ahead of Ryzen 9000X3D launch

The new driver update could suggest an imminent launch window for Ryzen 9000X3D parts.
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AMD updates 3D V-Cache optimizer driver ahead of Ryzen 9000X3D launch​

The new driver update could suggest an imminent launch window for Ryzen 9000X3D parts.

Less than a month after AMD's Ryzen 9000 announcement at Computex, the CPU manufacturer is already optimizing its 3D V-Cache driver, perhaps in preparation to launch its Ryzen 9000 series parts with the game-boosting tech.

@harukaze5719 on X (formally Twitter) discovered the new 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer driver from AMD. AMD last updated its 3D V-Cache optimizer driver around the launch of the Ryzen 7000X3D chips. There's not much information on what AMD's 3D-VCache driver does, it was first unveiled as a Windows 10 exclusive driver for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, but it is also available with AMD's Ryzen 7000X3D chips and works in Windows 11 with the 7000X3D SKUs.

We suspect the Ryzen 7000X3D-supporting version optimized workloads to put L3 cache-sensitive games and apps on the cache-equipped CCD of a Ryzen 9 7900X3D or 7950X3D, but that doesn't explain why the driver exists for the 5800X3D, as it doesn't need such optimizations.
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This is possibly a general driver update. As noted in the discovery, it adds device IDs. First it is a compatibility patch, and secondly, maybe, a driver enhancement.

Any improvements are welcome. I could be right with AMD seeking CPU cache interoperability with their GPU cache. It won't be a phenomenal improvement unless there is dev magic involved, but it could be a step in the right direction. Latency though... instructions will need to be optimal, otherwise you sit with overutilisation and underutilization issues. AMD's RT tech is simply rudimentary compared to Nvidia's.

AMD solving the remaining issues with CCD utilization on the 7900X3D or 7950X3D will be welcomed.
 
Anyone use Corsair ICUE? I got tired of it using 4 services, 5Gb of disk space and a bunch of RAM just to manage the radiator fans (it would be neat if it only installed stuff relevant to my cooler but they went with installing everything even some audio service when I don't use their headphones). First I set it to not run after getting the fans how I wanted and disabled the services but it still bugged me that it was there.

I went all ghetto just now and unplugged the fans from the pump head splitter, plugged them into the motherboard's sys fan headers and am now controlling them using the BIOS and then the Fan Control app in Windows for fine-tuning, Fan Control is a neat little program that does what I need for about 20mb of disk space and no services.

I also removed that USB cable since I didn't need it anymore.

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Neoprod said:
Anyone use Corsair ICUE? I got tired of it using 4 services, 5Gb of disk space and a bunch of RAM just to manage the radiator fans (it would be neat if it only installed stuff relevant to my cooler but they went with installing everything even some audio service when I don't use their headphones). First I set it to not run after getting the fans how I wanted and disabled the services but it still bugged me that it was there.

I went all ghetto just now and unplugged the fans from the pump head splitter, plugged them into the motherboard's sys fan headers and am now controlling them using the BIOS and then the Fan Control app in Windows for fine-tuning, Fan Control is a neat little program that does what I need for about 20mb of disk space and no services.

I also removed that USB cable since I didn't need it anymore.

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Lol, I dislike iCUE. Just use SignalRGB. You can also use OpenRGB, but SignalRGB has better support.

EDIT: Just to add, iCUE like Asus's Armoury Crate installs modules (and components). I am sure that others do it too, so uninstalling it is not a clean uninstallation.
 
rambo919 said:

Really nice prototype cases.... I wonder how much they will cost.
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Probably a lot...it's kind of a niche application nowadays (though if you wanted all of the CoD games installed at the same time, might be useful).

Antec make a less fancy case that does lots of 3.5" drives (7 or 8 iirc) for like a grand or so, maybe.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Lol, I dislike iCUE. Just use SignalRGB. You can also use OpenRGB, but SignalRGB has better support.
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You said RGB 3 times...you're going to BSOD in 7 days.

I don't have any RGB really - the pump head is just static blue.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
EDIT: Just to add, iCUE like Asus's Armoury Crate installs modules (and components). I am sure that others do it too, so uninstalling it is not a clean uninstallation.
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I use Revo to start the uninstall - it monitors the application's uninstaller and then reports on what was left behind. Useful.
 
Neoprod said:
Probably a lot...it's kind of a niche application nowadays (though if you wanted all of the CoD games installed at the same time, might be useful).

Antec make a less fancy case that does lots of 3.5" drives (7 or 8 iirc) for like a grand or so, maybe.
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Last I look at cases available it was R3-5K for one with more than 2-3 drive capacity.
 
Neoprod said:
I use Revo to start the uninstall - it monitors the application's uninstaller and then reports on what was left behind. Useful.
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I can't take the bloatware. SignalRGB and OpenRGB solved a problem, and it works! Just know that your components have to be supported; there are generic settings too.

OpenRGB works a treat with Linux.
 
iCUE is notoriously terrible..... so many things no one wants and so many bugs.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I can't take the bloatware. SignalRGB and OpenRGB solved a problem, and it works! Just know that your components have to be supported; there are generic settings too.

OpenRGB works a treat with Linux.
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I'd probably be using one of those if I had typed something different into google. The fan control app's dev is a master of SEO.
 
Neoprod said:
I'd probably be using one of those if I had typed something different into google. The fan control app's dev is a master of SEO.
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I see SignalRGB now requires a subscription to have Fan Control, but I don't know whether that is applicable to Fan Controllers. Previously I have only used the available headers on the mobo. OpenRGB is open-source.
 
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