I've tested Asus' new Turbo Game Mode for AMD CPUs and my verdict is simple: Don't use it

We live in some strange times. Let's say you've splashed the cash and bought yourself a brand new Ryzen 9 9950X processor. It's got 16 cores, 32 threads and it's a seriously capable CPU, though not the absolute best for gaming. Well, Asus reckons it has a fix for the latter in the form of a new Turbo Game Mode, that halves the number of cores and quarters the number of threads.

Specifically, what Turbo Game Mode (TGM) does is disable one of the CCDs (Core Complex Dies) and SMT (Simultaneous Multithreading).