Processors

[PedroUser804]

Hello, i have a Ryzen 7 5700X and in idle the clocks are always on the base speed 3.7GHz, i have a laptop with an i5-5200U and the clocks drop to 800MHz, why my Ryzen doesn't do that either? Is a configuration in the motherboard?

I have a Asus Rog Strix B550A-Gaming; RX 6750 XT and a 600W PSU.

[PedroUser804]

Here's a pic of HWMonitor

[cpurpe91]

Thanks for posting specs. Have you gone into your power plan and set the minimum CPU values lower? Is your chipset driver up to date? I just bought my 5700X and it drops in frequency when idle.

[PedroUser804]

Yes it is, I even putted it in 0%. Everything is up-to-date, it's a clean install and i built my PC on saturday

[johnnyenglish]

Hi,

You should install chipset drivers that will bring along this Ryzen Profile

Then use %5 instead of 0%

This was the only way to get my clocks down inside windows.

You can use Armoury Crate to update chipset drivers or get them in the AMD website.

Afterwards, check the main page in Armoury Crate if the CPU is doing what you told it to do, the lowest I observed however, was 2000 ish mhz.

Good Luck

[cpurpe91]

Isn't the Ryzen power plan made exclusively for the 3000 series?

[johnnyenglish]

I ran the chipset drivers and the plan was made available to me. That was the only way to drop the clocks anyway.

With no chipset drivers and no power plan, they would keep always at base clock... very frustrating.

I had to lower the clocks because the temperatures would be higher even if load was low.
not sure if its a thing with the 2000 series vs 3000 series.

[PedroUser804]

I had Armoury Crate, and the chipset drivers are up-to-date, but I don't have the ryzen balanced plan

[johnnyenglish]

Have you tried other monitor tools and use the 5% (or 10%) instead of 0%?

Can you post a picture of Armoury Crate main page with clock speeds?

[goodplay]

Check with hwinfo64 readout (core effective clocks, average effective clock).

They are the more real time clocks.

[DimkaTsv]

These are nominal clocks and they always be minimally equal to CPU base clock. 

Effective clocks are unlinked from them and can be much lower than these if there is not enough load.

[johnnyenglish]

I'm sorry but they should not be shown like that.

Not sure where in hwinfo that picture came from but...
hwinfo will display current, minimum, maximum and average.

@PedroUser804 if you are unsure about HwInfo for some reason, double check with coretemp and again.. Armoury Crate.

[DimkaTsv]

Yeah, HWINFO does much better job. 
HW Monitor and it is name of a tool that TS used... Well, it have terrible resolution for per-clock multiplier? Does it round up multiplier reading to integer value or what?

I know HWINFO uses 2 decimal places. 

Tbh, i have no idea why people use HW monitor in first place, when HWINFO exists.

TS [Topic Starter] question, on other hand was not why his numbers are so round up. But why idle = baseclock

And that's how CPU's work nowadays. 
They run nominal clock, which is equal to base clock (well, only if they don't go into very deep sleep state, then they might drop off a bit). 
But effective clock can be even 10 mHz at same time, despite nominal clock being 3.6 - 3.8 gHz. Power consumption comes from effective clock, not nominal one. 

[ryzenmaster00]

Hi,

the issue  are the default windows power plans: with these plans the parameter "Minimum processor state" doesn't run well and the CPU use only the values "Maximum processor state"

The workaround is to use the AMD Ryzen power plan: in this case the "Minimum processor state" parameter run well (and the clock in idle are correct)

I tested this on my Asus B450M-A with Ryzen 5700X, Win11 and last AMD B450 driver chipset (in idle I have 1733Mhz-1800Mhz and 25-30w cpu power usage)