It’s virtually unattainable to reward the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D extremely sufficient, with the superb efficiency of the corporate’s newest gaming CPU. Nonetheless, technically it’s nonetheless a chip that trails the Intel Core i9 14900K with regards to uncooked clock pace, a minimum of that was the case till Asus China’s common supervisor, Tony Yu, acquired his arms on one and achieved an unimaginable AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D overclock.
With assist from liquid nitrogen (LN2), Tony Yu managed to chill the most effective gaming CPU you should purchase all the way down to round -190°C (-321°F), displaying gthat the brand new AMD chip might be overclocked to an enormous 6.9GHz and nonetheless run Counter-Strike 2 stably. Not that that you must run the chip at these speeds to get superb efficiency, as our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D evaluation reveals.
What’s extra, at that unimaginable clock pace, the CPU allowed CS2 to run at in extra of 1,500fps, demonstrated on this video on Chinese language web site Bilibili. Even when it’s not overclocked, the chip can nonetheless recover from 900fps, however 1,500fps is a barely mindboggling quantity. At the least when 1,000Hz shows take over from 540Hz gaming screens, we’ll have chips that may ship the products to them.
What’s extra, the 9800X3D did this whereas consuming simply 104W of energy, and regardless of being equipped with an extremely excessive voltage of two.25V – the conventional working voltage of the chip is round 1.2V. It achieves this partly as a result of operating CPUs at these extremely low temperatures makes them inherently extra environment friendly (which is why super-conducting merchandise have a tendency to want cryogenic cooling), but additionally as a result of that is an inherently environment friendly chip anyway. Underneath regular load it solely consumes round 80W enjoying CS2, which compares to 140W for the Intel Core i9 14900K.
In fact, operating a gaming CPU at cryogenic temperatures isn’t sensible for any form of longer-term use, not to mention in the event you’re attempting to accommodate your CPU in probably the greatest PC case choices round. Nonetheless, in the event you’re in any respect into experimenting, it reveals the 9800X3D has some potential for enjoyable.
Additionally, the chip might be overclocked to some extent with out unique cooling. We’re nonetheless experimenting with our personal overclocking outcomes, however websites similar to Club386 report simply reaching 5.4GHz when operating the chip at simply 1.22V.
In the event you’re seeking to seize a cooler that’s going to be an excellent match in your new CPU, try our greatest CPU cooler information, which has a spread of decisions that can simply preserve the 9800X3D in verify.
