We’re nonetheless a few weeks away from the AMD Zen 5 launch however that hasn’t stopped AMD exhibiting off the complete extent of its new CPUs’ capabilities, a minimum of with regards to overclocking. In a brand new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X overclocking video by Avid gamers Nexus, AMD’s overclocking aficionados take the brand new flagship Zen 5 chip to a ridiculous velocity of 6.6GHz, with a little bit assist from a Thermos flask.
The 9950X is totally anticipated to be among the many greatest gaming CPUs you should purchase when it launches, making the Zen 5 launch date a extremely anticipated one. Nevertheless, whereas we nonetheless have to attend till July 31 earlier than we are able to really purchase this processor, AMD has given us a sneak peek at the chip’s capabilities when it’s pushed to extremes.
AMD’s engineers, Invoice Alverson and Amit Mehra, have appeared on a Avid gamers Nexus video (under) demonstrating the overclocking options of the brand new processors. Within the video, Invoice is proven cooling the 9950X to -130°C (-202°F) utilizing a vacuum flask full of liquid nitrogen, permitting him to overclock the chip to 6.6GHz.
That is 900MHz quicker than the acknowledged 5.7GHz peak enhance frequency of the CPU beneath regular circumstances in lightly-threaded workloads, and it enabled the chip to blast previous Cinebench information beforehand set by the Ryzen 9 7950X.
In truth, with the 9950X working at simply 5.85GHz, it was capable of outpace the 7950X working at 6.7GHz in the identical take a look at. That is testomony to the enhancements in directions per clock that AMD has been touting with these new Zen 5 chips. AMD has been claiming as excessive as a 16% enchancment, with the above take a look at runs exhibiting a 14.6% efficiency enhance.
AMD additionally discusses its new undervolting characteristic within the video. Undervolting is once you attempt to decrease the chip’s voltage as a lot as potential – to scale back warmth and energy consumption, whereas nonetheless sustaining as a lot efficiency as potential.
To that finish, AMD had beforehand carried out a characteristic referred to as Curve Optimizer that permits the person to undervolt the chip by an offset quantity, slightly than a set voltage. This permits the chip to nonetheless do its intelligent inside overclocking and undervolting (following a curve outlined by voltage, temperature, and frequency), however with the voltage introduced down barely.
With the brand new chip, although, AMD has launched Curve Shaper, which lets the person not simply specify a set voltage offset from the usual curve, however really tweak the interior overclocking curve. It’s a reasonably concerned course of that could be a bit intimidating for informal customers – there are three temperature bands and 5 voltage bands with which to experiment – however it gives a extremely highly effective instrument for customers who need to optimize their system for peak efficiency.
Fortunately, for these of us who’re extra thinking about simply dropping a brand new chip right into a motherboard and letting it do its factor, all indicators are actually optimistic. It seems to be as if the 9950X, and the remainder of the Zen 5 vary – together with 9000X3D chips once they arrive – will supply class-leading velocity and efficiency per watt once they land.
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