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.