MSI Boosts Gaming Performance By Up To 12% With New “High-Efficiency” Memory Mode on AM5 Motherboards

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MSI's recent AGESA 1.0.0.7c BIOS update for its AM5 motherboards introduces a new "High-Efficiency" memory mode that boosts gaming performance by up to 12%.

AMD and its motherboard partners recently rolled out the latest AGESA 1.0.0.7c BIOS update which offers support for higher frequency DDR5 memory modules and fixes some of the issues that were present on older firmware. We have seen AM5 motherboards supporting up to DDR5-9000+ DRAM modules with ease but MSI has a new feature up its sleeve that can potentially help deliver much faster gaming performance.

With its latest AMD AGESA 1.0.0.7c BIOS firmware, MSI is introducing a new memory tuning setting known as "High-Efficiency" mode. This new feature supports pre-configured memory profiles for a set of popular modules on the market, offering higher bandwidth and lower latency through a set of optimizations. These optimizations mainly come from fine-tuned DDR5 DRAM timings and there are four "Memory Timing Presets" that are available for users to try out at any given time including Tightest, Tighter, Balance & Relax.

You can select between any of the modes to see which one is the most stable with your setup. As a demonstration, we have some performance results of the "High-Efficiency" mode running on a MSI MAG B650M Mortar WIFI motherboard equipped with an MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X graphics card.

With the older AMD AGESA 1.0.0.7a BIOS, AM5 motherboards were only capable of running up to DDR5-6000/6200 in a 1:1 mode but with the latest AGESA 1.0.0.7c firmware, the motherboards can now run DDR5-6400 (1:1) and up to DDR5-8000 in 2:1 mode (MCLK/UCLK). All configurations run at the 1.3V SOC voltages which is the safe limit set by AMD.

For testing, four games were tested at FHD