Power plans for AMD dual CCD CPUS

[Boske98]

In my case (7950x3d) is there any power plan that we shoulld be using when we use CPU set setter? CPPC is set to frequency just for reference..
By default its recomended to use the Balanced one, I was wondering if there is a betterr one since we're using CPU set setter.

[Zotikus1001]

Balanced is still the better one.

[SimonvBez]

In my testing with a 9950X3D, Balanced or High Performance didn't seem to matter, so I just went with Balanced.

I'm wondering if you can confirm something else for me actually. On CPPC Frequency specifically, I always got the worst performance drop when I also had Game Mode on, and I'm curious if it's universal to dual-CCD CPUs.
Could you do a quick comparison of any game at 1080p and using CPU Set Setter to apply a Cache mask, with and without Game Mode? Mind that you always need to restart the game after you've toggled Game Mode.

[Boske98]

No problem, so with cppc set to frequency and global c stat is on auto I found on every game I've tested and on every resolution a performance loss with Game mode turned on. I need to point out that I''ve removed Game Bar from my system so I don't know if that makes any difference but its better if I tell all my setup settings.

[SimonvBez]

No problem, so with cppc set to frequency and global c stat is on auto I found on every game I've tested and on every resolution a performance loss with Game mode turned on. I need to point out that I''ve removed Game Bar from my system so I don't know if that makes any difference but its better if I tell all my setup settings.

Thanks for your quick testing! I'm glad that Game Mode causing performance degradations wasn't just an anomaly on my side.
Definitely keeping the warning for it in place.

[Boske98]

No problem, happy to help and you can always ask in the future if you need something to be tested.
Yeah you should be fine to leave the warning, I think its a universal thing for AMD dual CCD CPUs.
I wanted to ask you something specifically about Battlefield 6 anticheat, is there a reason you've put it on no mask or?
Just asking for future references so I don't get banned bcs I didn't set up everything correctly. I've read that it should be on the exact ccd you set up the game, so CCD0.
Also thank you for this amazing program, you've saved me future headaches!! :')

[SimonvBez]

I don't expect any anti-cheats to start handing out bans because someone applied a CPU Set to its launcher. Especially because people have been applying an Affinity to them for years already with tools like Process Lasso.
But at the same time there've been tens of posts on r/Battlefield of people getting their entire EA account banned for having a slightly funny username that contains 69420.
Applying a Cache Mask to the anti-cheat launcher brings absolutely 0 gains. So for me personally, leaving it at is just something I prefer for caution.

I've read that it should be on the exact ccd you set up the game, so CCD0.

Some background info on why that is incorrect, and there are 0 gains:
This is most likely due to a confusion with Affinities, which CPU Set Setter doesn't use to apply masks; it uses CPU Sets.
Affinities require some more privileges to apply than CPU Sets, which is why Affinities often can't be applied directly to games with an anti-cheat. As a workaround, people have set a CCD0 Affinity to Steam and/or the EAAntiCheatLauncher, which is inherited by the game process when it gets launched.
But CPU Sets don't need this workaround, as anti-cheats (apart from RICOCHET) don't block CPU Sets that are applied directly to the game. CPU Sets also are not inherited by child processes like Affinities are, so the idea of this workaround won't even work here.

[Boske98]

Thank you for the detail answer and again for this amazing program!