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AMD Ryzen 9 3950X: Overclocked to 5 GHz Allcore faster than Intel Core i9
You've been able to read up on a lot of news and article about the pending Ryzon Series 3000 processors. The one proc that made a lot of news is, of course, the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, however at the event, we attended there was live overclocking and thus the first OC and benchmark results are already in.
The 16-core with 32 threads and 72 MiByte L3-Cache proc is bound to set some records. The overclocking btw was done with LN2, as we do not see you get 16 cores at 5 GHz on LCS lol. So the base specs are as follows, the 16-core clocks has a moderate 3.5 GHz base clock but can boost to up to 4.7 GHz on individual cores. Tweaking this to all-cores 5 GHz certainly is going to bust that 105 watt TDP but when it was tweaked, they applied a gnarly OC trial at 1.608 volts and liquid nitrogen, 5.0 GHz was achieved on all 16 cores. Installed on an MSI MEG X570 Godlike and paired with G-Skill Trident Z Royal DDR4-4533, the team reached these records:
- Cinebench R15: Ryzen 9 3950X with 5,434 points (previously: Core i9-9960X with 5,320 points)
- Cinebench R20: Ryzen 9 3950X with 12.167 points (previously: Core i9-7960X with 10.895 points)
- Geekbench 4: Ryzen 9 3950X with 65.499 points (previously: Core i9-7960X with 60.991 points)
In addition, we can report that the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X has managed to operate DDR4-5100 on CL18-21-21-56. It is currently assumed that practical OC operation for normal use with DDR4-4266 is possible if an X570 motherboard is used. Standard is at Matisse DDR4-3200 and AMD will likely recommend 3866 MHz as default. I was able to snag some photos at the event when the tweaking was in progress.
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#5680395 Posted on: 06/13/2019 03:40 PM
Reducing the temperatures so much fundamentally decreases leakage.
What I don't get is how that CPU can be stable at that voltage. Shouldn't quantum tunneling be a major issue for this?
Reducing the temperatures so much fundamentally decreases leakage.
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#5680410 Posted on: 06/13/2019 04:15 PM
I would still think the CPU is pretty much fecked after all the benches are complete.
There would still be some migration, due to the insane voltage and speeds involved, even at low temperatures overall.
Reducing the temperatures so much fundamentally decreases leakage.
I would still think the CPU is pretty much fecked after all the benches are complete.
There would still be some migration, due to the insane voltage and speeds involved, even at low temperatures overall.
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#5680421 Posted on: 06/13/2019 04:40 PM
I would still think the CPU is pretty much fecked after all the benches are complete.
There would still be some migration, due to the insane voltage and speeds involved, even at low temperatures overall.
some chips go a while I had two 3770k/3570?k's on ln2 or dry ice every week for about a 1 and a half years both still had max air clocks.i think the board I used saved them by voltage safety crap kicking in lol
on the other hand the 980x were very weak ln2 was certain death it was just when.1 I had was sooooooooooo hurt after 3 ln2 sessions
I would still think the CPU is pretty much fecked after all the benches are complete.
There would still be some migration, due to the insane voltage and speeds involved, even at low temperatures overall.
some chips go a while I had two 3770k/3570?k's on ln2 or dry ice every week for about a 1 and a half years both still had max air clocks.i think the board I used saved them by voltage safety crap kicking in lol
on the other hand the 980x were very weak ln2 was certain death it was just when.1 I had was sooooooooooo hurt after 3 ln2 sessions
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#5680432 Posted on: 06/13/2019 05:08 PM
@las and others:
do you see super sports cars compared by how how long it takes them to go from LA to SF in stop and go traffic, or by timing a lap on the nuerburgring?
right.
even if its doesnt translate into any real world use (perf/cooling etc), its a good indicator, and allows to compare to intel running a similar setup,
as well as showing some ppl (that dont have a lot of processing power themselves (grey matter), that intel isnt the only viable option anymore.
same for tweaking.
the days when a few ppl would get crazy oc on cpu/gpus are virtually over (outside compressor/LN2 cooling etc)
manufacturers want less possible issues and limit stuff (e.g. power on nv cards), and making stuff smaller doesnt help either.
sure im not that happy that manual tweaking wont be as rewarding as it was years ago, then again it was a bit more lottery to get a good chip (going past the common +10%),
vs those kind of "guaranteed ~10%" we see today, but at least now i dont need to spend all day running benches and doing multiple reboots to find clocks that are stable.
with the oc scanner it took less than 30 min to find clocks (+79 MHz) very close to my max stable clocks (+85), while using less voltage (1080)
@las and others:
do you see super sports cars compared by how how long it takes them to go from LA to SF in stop and go traffic, or by timing a lap on the nuerburgring?
right.
even if its doesnt translate into any real world use (perf/cooling etc), its a good indicator, and allows to compare to intel running a similar setup,
as well as showing some ppl (that dont have a lot of processing power themselves (grey matter), that intel isnt the only viable option anymore.
same for tweaking.
the days when a few ppl would get crazy oc on cpu/gpus are virtually over (outside compressor/LN2 cooling etc)
manufacturers want less possible issues and limit stuff (e.g. power on nv cards), and making stuff smaller doesnt help either.
sure im not that happy that manual tweaking wont be as rewarding as it was years ago, then again it was a bit more lottery to get a good chip (going past the common +10%),
vs those kind of "guaranteed ~10%" we see today, but at least now i dont need to spend all day running benches and doing multiple reboots to find clocks that are stable.
with the oc scanner it took less than 30 min to find clocks (+79 MHz) very close to my max stable clocks (+85), while using less voltage (1080)
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I'm not even a water cooling fan, I hate these articles about LN2. Why should we care how much a CPU can OC in LN2, will anyone run a setup like that at home? I never understood the fuzz about it.
OC with anything using Air or/and Water and I'll respect the results. LN2? Get lost.