Consider your options carefully before deciding.
Consider your options carefully before deciding.
Your Cinebench score is around 4650 on Cb20. After testing, two of your cores max out at 4.3GHz and only one reaches 4.35GHz. This seems typical for a 3700X build. It looks normal for that configuration. Consider upgrading to a better GPU if you want higher performance. Also, your setup includes B450 Tomahawk, Wraith Prism, and the latest BIOS—good choices overall.
I believe the chip works fine. Could you share your motherboard model and cooling solution? These details are key when talking about how Ryzen 3000 chips raise their clocks. Use Ryzen Master to track speeds instead of HWinfo. I've faced some challenges achieving optimal scores in both single-threaded and multi-threaded scenarios, so far the best setup has been PBO with a +200MHz boost that pushed my PPT limit past 88W. This helped me hit nearly 5k points in multithreaded tests and over 500 in singlethreaded CB20 runs. I'm running on an X370 board, which means your chip might run even higher if you're using a solid X570—though I haven't tried manual overclocking beyond what PBO and the 200MHz boost already provide. Edit: Also, what Windows power plan are you using?
You're seeing identical measurements in Ryzen Master while your B450 Tomahawk runs smoothly, even though you're using the latest BIOS and setting the Ryzen Balanced Power Plan. It seems the two cores aren't performing well.
The advertised boost clock speeds are the maximum speed for a single or dual core workload. There's also a quirk with AMD CPUs in that the cores may not all have the same boost potential. Some cores may easily hit the advertised speeds, others may not. See:
Yes, it's still typical for this version to function as expected with the updated 1.0.0.4 bios.