The AMD Raven Ridge series of CPUs offers PC users the highest level of performance with integrated graphics processors, the Ryzen 5 2400G and the Ryzen 3 2200G. The success of these new AMD APU processors was somewhat hampered by some problems, although thanks to the work of the AMD BIOS team we believe it has been solved with AGESA 1002a.
AMD increases the performance and stability of Raven Ridge with AGESA 1002a
Users of the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G had random frequency drop problems, especially in games like Assassin’s Creed Origins. This problem affected to a lesser extent the Raven Ridge 2200G is replicable in several other games where both the CPU and GPU parts of the system are profoundly influenced, which was pointed to a problem with the power management system.
AMD has addressed the issue internally with its latest update of the AGESA 1002a microcode, which has now begun to be released in a new BIOS update. Below is a comment from AMD’s Ryzen Twitter page, announcing the launch of this new AGESA update.
AGESA 1002a are now coming out for Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G with performance and smoothness improvements for PUBG, Overwatch, and Minecraft. This update should now be available to all major motherboard manufacturers, so have a look at the support and download pages.