The Ryzen 9 7950X is an overclocking monster
Yesterday, we reported that a group of overclockers had pushed the Ryzen 9 7950X processor, which will debut on the market next September 27th together with its "younger brothers" Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X, as well as X670 and X670E motherboards, at truly remarkable frequencies, so much breaking four records using only an AIO liquid cooling system with a 280mm radiator.
It was only a matter of time before the chip was squeezed further using liquid nitrogen and the well-known leaker @Tum_Apisak identified a result obtained in CPU-Z which saw the processor reach a boost clock on a single core of 7.247MHz applying a voltage of 1.506V. This is an exceptional result, although still far from the current world record, firmly in the hands of an FX-8370 boosted up to 8,722MHz.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X @ 7247.49 MHz
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- APISAK (@TUM_APISAK) September 22, 2022
Recall that the Ryzen 9 7950X is equipped with 16 cores and 32 threads, has a base frequency of 4.5GHz capable of reaching up to 5.7GHz, 200 MHz more than the Intel Core i9- 12900KS. As for the other technical characteristics, the CPU has a TDP of 170W (230W PPT), 80MB of cache, of which 64MB L3 and 16MB L2.
UPDATE: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Blitzes Benchmarks With All-Core Overclocking At 5.8GHz
When AMD announced its Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 processors in August, it announced a peak clock rate of 5.7 GHz for the top-end, 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X model. That CPU is expected to boost to 5.85 GHz under Precision Boost Overdrive, but that's only on two cores. Even 5.7 GHz is well above the all-core clock speed, but TUM_APISAK spotted a result in the CPU-Z Validator that has the whole chip running at just under 5.8 GHz.Given the rumors about how hot the new Ryzens run, you might expect that the CPU would be nearly catching fire at that speed, but in fact, it's actually running quite cool at just 39.5°C. Unfortunately, the submitter declined to run the CPU-Z benchmark, so we don't actually have any idea of the real performance or whether the chip is truly stable at this clock rate.The CPU is almost certainly under some fairly exotic cooling—a large liquid-cooling radiator in a custom-loop setup, possibly with a chiller—but another contributing factor to the cool-running performance is the relatively low 1.4v core voltage. While 1.4v probably sounds high to folks more familiar with Intel CPUs, it's actually pretty normal as far as Ryzen overclocking goes. Either this CPU is a golden sample, and it is not generally very stable at these clocks, or perhaps Zen 4 is actually an overclocking beast.
It's almost silly to write about a leak like this just one week before the CPUs launch officially, but it's hardly even a leak—the CPUs are already offered by illicit merchants in China and France. As usual, you can expect that we'll have more information for you closer to launch.4:30pm ET 9/21/2022 UpdateAMD revealed some impressive overclocking results of its own today as well. Using 'standard liquid cooling' which amounts to a 280mm AIO, the company's XOC team was able to push a Ryzen 9 7950X as high as 5.5 GHz all-core and complete several benchmark runs. Each benchmark run was paired with different hardware, but it is unclear if the same Ryzen 9 7950X sample was used across them.The AMD team's results are as follows:For conventional cooling, these are very impressive results for all the reasons we alluded to in the original article. Nevertheless, they lend credence to our theory that the 5.8GHz all-core results were using something more in the exotic realm to keep the system stable. On that note, AMD has teased some LN2 records are coming, so stay tuned.