Windows 11 22H2 Update May Impact Ryzen 7000 Performance!

Since the release of the Windows 11 22H2 update last month, we have seen a notably large number of bugs being reported from the community. While there are too many to list in detail (click here for more info), some of them include; gaming performance dropping, Nvidia GPUs performing worse, printers failing to print, and most recently file transfer speeds spotted being notably slower.

Overall, it all seems to add up to one fairly solid piece of advice. Installing the 22H2 update, at the moment at least, generally seems to be a pretty bad idea!

Following a report via Neowin, however, it seems that yet another bug has been found within Windows 11 22H2 as sources are claiming that AMD Ryzen 7000 processors, in certain situations, are performing notably worse after making the update.

AMD Ryzen 7000 Suffers On Windows 11

When compared to prior bugs, this new issue is a lot more technical. It does, however, predominantly seem to stem from the issue seen on AMD Ryzen processors when Windows 11 was initially released just under a year ago. – As some of you may recall, AMD users were strongly advised to install new updated chipset drivers to fix an issue where the operating system wasn’t able to determine (and select) preferential cores (we extensively tested it here if you’d like to learn more).

In a nutshell, though, users are reporting that when a single CCD (CPU Compute Die) is active on the Ryzen 7000 chipset, it can reduce the overall performance of the CPU allowing, in some situations, weaker processors to outperform their higher core/thread counterparts.

While still pending any confirmation from either AMD or Microsoft, I think it’s pretty clear that if this is indeed a confirmed issue with Ryzen 7000, either a Windows update or new AMD chipset driver will be released in the near future to hopefully correct the problem. – For the moment though, our advice remains the same.

If you have the notification to make the Windows 11 22H2 update (like I do as I write this), ignore it. Give it at least another 3-4 weeks because, for the moment, it seems to be creating more problems than it solves!

What do you think? – Let us know in the comments!