AMD's Ryzen CPUs have been found to lock up on certain workloads

[WYP]

AMD's Ryzen CPUs have been found to lock up on certain FMA3-based workloads, though thankfully AMD is working on a firmware update that will fix the issue.



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[NeverBackDown]

I wonder if it is causing a deadlock on a CPU level or if it is just a bug in firmware

 

[WYP]

I wonder if it is causing a deadlock on a CPU level or if it is just a bug in firmware

The issue seems to be related to power management, which is something that can be fixed in firmware.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I would bet you are right. If it was an actual deadlock that would be very bad. Very hard to fix that.