https://wccftech.com/der8auers-ryzen-3000-series-boost-survey-reveals-worse-than-expected-boosting/

Roman, der8aur, recently held a reasonably extensive survey asking followers who own new Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs to share their CPUs boosting results. A total of over 2726 users joined in with valid results by indicating what CPU, Motherboard, BIOS revision, and AGESA version that they were running.  Roman took the time to cull out the bad results and blatant outliners to reduce the error margin in order to get a more realistic look at the boosting behavior that the new Ryzen 3000 Series processors are experiencing.

AMD may be dominating in CPU sales, but they’ve been dealing with one very annoying issue since they launched on July 7th this year and that would be their Boosting.  Take for instance the Ryzen 9 3900X features a Boost clock of 4.6GHz and while you would expect it to be for a single or maybe dual-core application, the reality for myself and many others is that it’s just a blip on a monitor radar and comes and goes so fast you’ll likely never actually see it.  Mine typically does best at around 4.45GHz on one board and maybe 4.5GHz on the other if I’m lucky.  That’s not a bad clock speed by any means, but it’s also not the advertised 4.6GHz either.  AMD even went into depth on their new PBO+ Auto OC showing how you could get up to 200MHz of additional power, maybe but I haven’t seen that one work either.