The CPU overclocking world records on HWBOT is currently dominated by the latest Ryzen chip of AMD, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. It is a beast with 32 core processor and 64 threads, which is not entirely surprising but dominating the whole CPU overclocking scene. However, a new report claims that despite this prowess, the CPU could not beat a five years old chip.
AMD Ryzen processors, even in the recent processor history and despite the impressive performance of successive releases of Zen 2 architecture, have never really been called overclocking heavyweights. Generally, these CPUs are for gaming, but not essentially for clock-tweaking technicalities. That is at the basic level of overclocking; however, at the extreme edge where liquid helium and LN2 are used, the world records table has been tainted.
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X holds four out of eight overclocking world records with the Core i9 9900KF from Intel holding the single core crown and the SuperPi record, and the EPYC 7742 64-core HWBOT's very own x 265 4K benchmark. The highest clockspeed any processor has ever achieved belongs to AMD FX-8370, which has ruled the realm since 2014.
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A South Korean overclocker, safedisk, over the weekend, tweaked the nuts off the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X processor and ripped through the central processing unit overclocking world records, separately setting a record of four overclocking speeds in one day. The overclocker used lashings of liquid nitrogen and pushed the processor up between 5.5GHz and 5.7GHz to top the rankings in all four overclocking benchmarks, which is up to 2 GHz beyond its base clock speed.
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X has a base clock of 3.7 GHz and a max boost of 4.5 GHz to achieve that level using all the 32 Zen 2 cores, which is immensely impressive. However, it is still not enough to steal the frequency ranking from the good old AMD FX-8370. The Piledriver FX chip maintains the record on the top spot with 8.7 GHz clock speed.
It says a lot about the development of CPUs as it does in overclocking performance. It appears that the frequency levels of our chips have not really changed a massive amount in the past years, considering that the AMD FX-8370 offers a 4.3 GHz max boost on nominal eight-core design.
