Windows 11 bugs cause app slowdown on AMD chips

A pair of Home windows eleven bugs cause Pc apps running on AMD chips to gradual down as much as 15%.

In a report revealed on its site this 7 days, AMD identified two flaws and said that a Home windows eleven application update would be available later this thirty day period. Microsoft unveiled a statement declaring that it is “actively investigating these recognized concerns.”

The predicted effectiveness slowdown for most apps is among 3% and five%, but for apps that involve large-performing PCs, this sort of as eSports online games, the slowdown could be among ten% and 15%. 

Customers took to Reddit and Twitter to complain about the bugs, and many said they would not install Home windows eleven until eventually Microsoft mounted it.

The bugs have an affect on AMD Ryzen, EPYC and other Home windows eleven-appropriate chips. 1 flaw triggers the cache latency to triple on the chips, though the other triggers their firmware to fall short in scheduling threads on the swiftest main. The latter bug impacts units with far more than eight-main processors.

“Programs delicate to memory subsystem entry time could be impacted,” AMD said in the statement.

About 180 AMD chips aid Home windows eleven. They range from the AMD 3015e to the Ryzen Threadripper Professional 3995WX.

The announcement came times following Microsoft unveiled Home windows eleven to the general public on Oct. five. The new OS attributes many aesthetic improvements, but it also contains stability updates and Microsoft Groups. Microsoft designs to add aid for Android apps finally.

Home windows eleven has a slew of hardware requirements, this sort of as a 1 GHz or quicker processor with two or far more cores on a appropriate 64-little bit processor or method on a chip. It also requires at minimum 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage and a graphics card appropriate with DirectX twelve or later.

AMD is the 2nd-greatest maker of personal computer microprocessors following Intel. In accordance to the most new information from Statista, a organization specializing in sector and buyer information, AMD chips were being in about 40% of all PCs around the world.

Maxim Tamarov is a news writer covering cell and stop-person computing. He beforehand wrote for The Everyday News in Jacksonville, N.C., and the Sun Transcript in Winthrop, Mass. He graduated from Northeastern University with a degree in journalism. He can be discovered on Twitter at @MaximTamarov.