Don’t know how to use AMD Clock Tuner 2.0? We teach you

The Ryzen Clock Tuner is a Windows application that allows us to set certain values ​​and parameters of AMD Ryzen processors in their various forms. Fortunately, we are not faced with an application that is difficult to use, but with a large number of configuration options. That’s why we’ve designed this guide so that you can get the most out of it.

First of all when using the Ryzen 2.0 Clock Tuner, we recommend that you have the equipment ready, the first thing is to make sure the processor voltage and multiplier settings are in automatic, have a stable RAM profile and SVM mode disabled. and BIOS updated with version AGESA Combo AM4 1.0.0.4 and have installed .NET Framework 4.8.

You also have to have the courage Load line calibration in your PC’s BIOS / UEFI as follows:

• L3 for ASUS and MSI cards.
• L2 or Auto if the card comes from ASRock.
• Turbo Auto for GIGABYTE / AORUS.
• L4 + for Biostar.

After making these changes, you can start using the Ryzen Clock Tuner.

The Clock Tuner Ryzen 2.0 interface

The Clock Tuner Ryzen 2.0 interface consists of several tabs, which are selected by choosing the tabs on the left, which are placed vertically. The tab that interests us is the one that says “Tuner”, the window of which can be seen above these lines.

At the top right, we have the monitoring of the different CCXs and therefore of the different CPU cores, since these are located in the CCXs. The information we get first is the temperature the processor is at at all times. Regarding the information provided in the central box, this is your identifier as a processor, the ones with the higher values ​​are those which should achieve a higher clock speed, and if in the same processor , there may be this difference between hearts and some of them run faster than others.

As for the small boxes below, they measure the processor telemetry values:

• CPU usage (%) measures the percentage of the processor currently in use.
• CPU TEL (V) is the voltage value that the CPU requests from the VRMs.
• In exchange Processor VID (V) measures the voltage of the CPU itself.
• Power consumption, in watts, is measured by CPU PPT (W).
• To finalize the amperage used by the processor, it is measured by the EDC value of the CPU (A).

Pay attention to these parameters because they will give you precise information at each moment of the state in which the different CPU cores are at each moment.

Setting

Here are the parameters we can manipulate and what each of them does:

• Test mode: This allows us to select the stress test that the CTR will do to the CPU to check if it is able to withstand changes over the long term.
• Cycle time: allows us to configure the duration, in seconds, that the stress test that we have selected in the previous parameter will last.
• Delta CCX (MHz): indicates increases or decreases in clock frequency when the various tests included in the Ryzen Clock Tuner are performed. AMD Ryzen speed boosts are recommended to be 25 to 25 MHz. In the case of Ryzen 9 between 75 MHz and 175 MHz for processors terminated in X and 100 to 150 MHz for XT. If you have a Threadripper, the speed increases will be between 75 and 100 MHz.
• Polling period (ms): Whenever the information needs to be updated in the information window on the right.
• Reference frequency (MHz): speed tuning to find the highest stable clock speed for the processor will start with this value and increase. So choose this value well.
• Max frequency (MHz): It is the inverse of the previous value, in this case we do not mark the minimum value, but the maximum value.
• Diagnostic voltage (mV): the voltage at which the CPU should operate during diagnostics, note that the value is in milliwatts.
• With courage Maximum PPT (W) we set the maximum power consumption for the processor in total.
• Value Max EDC (A) we adjust the maximum current that the VRMs have to absorb, while Maximum TDC (A) we indicate the maximum current allowed to flow in the processor.
• Max temperature (° C): maximum temperature at which the processor should operate, it is recommended not to exceed 90 ° C.

Cinebench R20

The Ryzen Clock Tuner incorporates the Cinebench R20 benchmark, with which we can measure the performance after making the relevant processor adjustments through this app. In addition, if in the settings pane you have selected the option “CB20 test” Then it will give you the benchmark results with a before and after.

The benchmark results will be uploaded to the Cinebench database and you can even compare them with the results of other users, to get a rough idea of ​​the performance increase with ClockTuner Ryzen.

To access it, all you have to do is select the benchmark tab to perform the corresponding tests and measure performance.

Profiles in AMD Clock Tuner 2.0

The Ryzen Clock Tuner uses several different profiles to maintain the stability of the processor at all times while trying to achieve the maximum possible performance, for this it uses three different profiles: P0, P1 and P2 where P0 is new to CTR 2.1 from.

the profile P1 It is used for CPU heavy tasks, that is, those which exceed 75% of the CPU load and require the latter to be rushed to solve it. It is therefore in this mode that you must set the clock speed as high as possible within the limits of the processor.

As for P2 profile This is enabled only when the processor workload has an average workload, which will always be between the value of CCX use min Yes CCX max usage. The default values ​​are 25% and 75% respectively. On the other hand, if the workload is less than CCX use min then the P0 profile will be used, which is only compatible with the new Ryzen 5000 based on Zen 3, in this profile the CPU is put in turbo speed mode.

Beware of abuse

When we open the app, AMD makes it clear to us in a message that changes to processor values ​​and settings that are made that affect the operation of the processor in a negative way will not be covered by its warranty. So you end up forcing the processor too much and breaking it, you have to know that AMD will find out and it will not change it.

How can they know? Well, due to the fact that there are small NAND Flash memories inside every Ryzen processor, this is where the running parameters are stored and these can be viewed by AMD at the time of release. CPU usage. Our recommendation is that when it comes to increasing the speed of the processor, you should do it in small steps and always check things like temperature and consumption.

It goes without saying that if you have hardware that allows you to directly measure the temperature and voltage of your Ryzen processor, take that into account and use that as well, as having two telemetry methods is going to be better.

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