Have you ever wondered if your laptop can perform better or if there is any tool to get the most out of your laptop with Ryzen because it comes very standard? Many of us, when we receive a laptop, the first thing we do is remove all the bloatware that comes standard, to later expand the hardware, such as RAM and storage, and replace the standard thermal paste with a high-quality one, to improve temperatures. Now on our computers with AMD Ryzen mobile we can go a step further by squeezing every last drop of performance in our Ryzen APUs thanks to Ryzen Controller .
Ryzen Controller was born as a project to make it possible to reach more people the Flyzen RyzenAdj application that lacked a graphical user interface and therefore was very difficult to use for the vast majority of users and the Ryzen Controller development team have decided to take advantage of this great application and implement a very attractive and easy to use graphical user interface.
The beginnings of Ryzen Controller: RyzenAdj from FlyGoat
RyzenAdj is a program, compatible with Windows and Linux, that allows us to control through the command line many parameters of our Ryzen APUs. Being quite difficult to use, since it uses commands like:
./ryzenadj –stapm-limit = 35000 –fast-limit = 35000 –slow-limit = 35000 –tctl-temp = 95
What this command would do in particular would be to set the power limit of our APU to 35W and set its maximum temperature to 95 degrees Celsius.
So, to facilitate the use of RyzenAdj, the idea arose to create Ryzen Controller, which is a graphical interface that passes these parameters and commands to RyzenAdj in a very simple and easy way for everyone, simply by dragging a line or entering the values that We want in the graphical user interface and clicking on the button to apply the changes so that these changes are executed.
Currently the RyzenAdj project is on hiatus, as FlyGoat has not continued to implement new functionality, although its use for future 4000 series APUs is likely possible as it is currently compatible with all existing APUs.
What is Ryzen Controller?
Ryzen Controller uses the latest version of RyzenAdj, providing it with a very friendly and simple graphical user interface that allows you to control all the parameters of our APU without having to do it using the command line, which is a more complicated and slow way of doing it.
Due to the many different (and proprietary) designs of laptop motherboards currently on the market, there is no official tool on AMD’s side to tune the performance of AMD Ryzen mobile processors as if it exists for desktops that It is the Ryzen Master and this tool has been created to fill this gap.
Because of this, many of these APUs are factory capped by manufacturers’ thermal and power limits. Ryzen Controller is a totally free open source utility that lets you squeeze every last drop of performance that AMD Ryzen APUs can offer with a very easy-to-use graphical interface.
Settings can be saved as custom presets that can be enabled whenever you need additional power for more demanding tasks like video games, or disabled when you want to keep your laptop running low and at lower temperatures.
Currently the program is still active and for all people who are interested in contributing to the development of Ryzen Controller, the project has a Discord server and developers can contribute in GitLab to improve and implement new functionality with their contributions to the source code such as translation. into Spanish, by Iván Balseiro García, one of the current editors of HardZone.
100% free download
Ryzen Controller is compatible with Windows, Linux and Ryzen 2000 and 3000 series APUs and is expected to be compatible with the 4000 series as well when released. It can be downloaded completely free of charge from the official website of the project.
Ryzen Controller would not be possible without the talent of many people who have contributed to all versions of its development. A special thanks to FlyGoat and his amazing work on RyzenAdj, without which Ryzen Controller could not exist.
