It's only been a day since the best Us for gaming), so it's no surprise they can clock very high when push comes to shove.
MSI pointed out (via Wccftech) that a world record clock speed has been set for the AMD Ryzen 9000-series. This seems to be referring to overclocker TSAIK's recorded clock speeds of of 7.4 GHz for the 12-core 9900X and 7.44 GHz for the 16-core 9950X, as submitted to overclocking score aggregator site HWBot. For reference, the stock boost clock of both chips is 5.6 GHz, which in turn is over 2 GHz higher than their respective base clocks.
The big score is the one for the 9950X. This 7.44 GHz almost matches the highest frequency I could find on HWBot for the previous-gen AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, which is 7.47 GHz, achieved by overclocker rog-fisher. But that these new chips have only been out a day, and the fact they're already approaching that previous-gen record is neat.
Of course, this score doesn't come close to the highest frequencies achieved by any overclock. Last year, for instance, stability issues even at previous default settings?
These AMD chip overclocks clearly won't have been achieved with anything like a standard cooling setup. As with all extreme overclocks, the chips will have been cooled using liquid nitrogen, which I've heard is a very tricky thing to do right. Everything has to be waterproofed and if you cool the chip too quickly it can crack—it's not something for the faint of heart to try.
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While we can't expect anything close to these record clock speeds from a regular overclock, it's nice to know the chips are capable of it when push comes to shove. Nice, but not all too surprising given Zen 5's architectural improvements that allow for better power and heat efficiency.
It's certainly good to see what Zen 5 chips are capable of when pushed given that the mid-range post-launch TDP boost.
It is, however, a shame that the 9900X and 9950X are about as expensive as they come, at least for now. Let's hope for price drops before too long—my money's on some cuts when Intel Arrow Lake Us launch.
