Mickey: Explaining the AMD Ryzen "Power Reporting Deviation" -metric in HWiNFO

Motherboard vendors, as a group, do not have the best relationship with honest benchmarking. For decades, board manufacturers have used various tactics to improve performance, including overclocking the FSB by a few percentage points, overriding Intel’s per-core Turbo settings to implement all-core maximum clocks when XMP was enabled, and setting Intel PL2 and Tau values far in excess of anything Intel recommends to maximize benchmark results.

Now, it seems some vendors have developed a...

Explaining the AMD Ryzen "Power Reporting Deviation" -metric in HWiNFO

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