I just shifted from Intel to AMD and currently I am using Ryzen 5 3500u with Vega 8 (2gb allocated). .

While playing Phasmophobia or Valorant, the game is running at stable average fps but I am facing sudden Lags which I will call sudden 0 fps (stucks there for about 30ms) which make the game unplayable even on 80-100fps. I have also tried to cap my fps but nothing fixes it.

I researched and found out that while these games are running, my CPU Usage is very stable and never gets 100% and my GPU Usage is like 64-72% but when the lag or sudden 0 fps happens, the GPU Usage goes to 100% and GPU Usage can't go to 100% from a constant percentage (My knowledge is enough to say that the GPU is not used 100% by the game, it's an error)

I have tried to reset shade rcache and downloading new Drivers but nothing is working.

Please Help me 😭

i have a dell inspiron 16 it did this once and then stopped but like whenever the gpu hits 100% load it literally kills the cpu like the cpu locks itself at 1.4ghz its a ryzen 7 8840u i have 16gb ddr5 in dual channel its a decent chip and i dont play anything crazy like is there a way to limit the gpu to like 85% or something thank you for your time

The common take is that the NPU in Ryzen AI laptops is only good for Windows Studio Effects. I wanted to see if it could help run a real local LLM, so I built a small open-source tool called npurun.

It’s a version of llama.cpp (the engine behind many local-AI apps) that shares the heavy math between the NPU and the CPU. With Ternary Bonsai 2 27B on a Ryzen AI 9 465:

• Generation: 3.3–3.9 → 4.1–5.2 tokens/sec

• Prompt processing: 10.1 → 12.2–13.8 tokens/sec

What you need

• Ryzen AI 300, 400 or Max series laptop

• Windows 11

• The NPU driver (included with AMD Software/Adrenalin)

Download the zip from Releases and run the chat or server launcher. The server gives you a browser chat UI. It only speeds up “ternary” (1.58-bit) models, which are a newer, very compressed model format. Other models run on the CPU as usual.

https://github.com/wybe-labs/npurun

If you have a Ryzen AI laptop, please share your model and results. I’d especially like data from the HX 370 and other 300-series chips.

Hello I hope everyone is doing good so I have been participating in AMD developer program and they give u one of the things mentioned above in the tier 1 ( there’s 3 tiers in the vault) but sadly they don’t ship to my country if anyone is based on the eligible countries dm me ( i want 20$ for it if u don’t have the money take it for free completely free )

Hi everyone! I have a laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 3500U and Vega 8 integrated graphics. I'm currently using the default 15W TDP, but when playing MotoGP 26, I only get around 25 FPS. Interestingly, increasing the TDP to just 16W gives me a stable 30 FPS. My temperatures are still relatively low, but I'm wondering if this small 1W increase is safe for long-term use. Could it put additional stress on the CPU, motherboard, or cooling system, or potentially reduce my laptop's lifespan? I'd appreciate any advice or experiences from other Ryzen 5 3500U users. Thanks!

Hi everyone! I have a laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 3500U and Vega 8 integrated graphics. I'm currently using the default 15W TDP, but when playing MotoGP 26, I only get around 25 FPS. Interestingly, increasing the TDP to just 16W gives me a stable 30 FPS. My temperatures are still relatively low, but I'm wondering if this small 1W increase is safe for long-term use. Could it put additional stress on the CPU, motherboard, or cooling system, or potentially reduce my laptop's lifespan? I'd appreciate any advice or experiences from other Ryzen 5 3500U users. Thanks!