User Manual

55931 Rev. 1.0 March 2, 2017

AMD Ryzen Processor Overclocking User’s Guide

Important Information

7.1.4 AMD Ryzen Master processor resource consumption

Since AMD Ryzen Master is an application and samples many processor parameters to display

real-time performance information, it consumes processor resources but presents a light load at

idle. You may notice AMD Ryzen Master taking slightly more resources as a percentage when a

heavy workload is running, such as a highly-threaded benchmark. The multi-thread workload of

Maxon’s CINEBENCH benchmark is a good example of this behavior. This is due to the

operating system’s higher overhead of thread-context switching between AMD Ryzen Master and

the other workload.

If a highly-threaded application can consume all available thread capacity and maximum

performance is important, shut AMD Ryzen Master down while running that workload.

Example: When running CINEBENCH for maximum score while over-clocked

 set the Windows power policy to “High Performance”

 shut down AMD Ryzen Master and any other processor monitoring utilities