- The Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a best-selling processor, recently set a new overclocking record, achieving a frequency of 7.3 GHz.
- The 7.3 GHz speed was achieved under idle conditions and is not sustainable for demanding tasks.
- This record was set by an overclocker using specialized cooling techniques, including liquid nitrogen, on a high-end motherboard.
AMD introduced its first Ryzen CPUs roughly 8 years ago. It became a rival to Intel at the time, and while it competed on a similar performance level, the Ryzen X3D arrived years later and changed the tables in its favour. These AMD CPUs delivered unrivalled gaming performance and maintained their lead as new generations were introduced.
The best-selling Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which rarely exceeds 5 GHz as a maximum frequency, has now set a new overclocking record of 7.3 GHz on a GIGABYTE X870 AORUS Tachyon motherboard.
The Ryzen 7 5800X3D was the first X3D processor, with eight cores and a design similar to the normal 5800X, but with 3D V-Cache, which AMD described as a new way for increasing CPU cache. The gamers benefit from it, allowing it to become AMD’s fastest processor. However, it was still insufficient when competing with Intel’s top CPUs, which is where the Ryzen 7 7800X3D altered the game and became the fastest processor.
Overclocker Hicookie achieved a new overclocking record of 7,313.05 MHz using the Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor. In CPU-Z, achieving this high frequency required intense overclocking using liquid nitrogen and a voltage of at least 1.631V. To get the desired frequency, he had to disable SMT (8 threads instead of 16) and use a bus speed of 101.57 MHz with an x72 multiplier. This was accomplished with a high-end GIGABYTE X870E AORUS Tachyon motherboard, allowing for such high performance.
Although the speed record is impressive, it should be noted that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D’s 7.3 GHz was only reached in CPU-Z, which is idle with virtually no load. If a benchmark is run at such a frequency, the system will be unable to maintain it and will crash. HWBot not only achieved the frequency record but also set a performance record in Cinebench 2024, scoring 1,733 points in multi-core. This was accomplished by hitting Cinebench’s maximum frequency of 6.7 GHz.
For instance, a factory Ryzen 7 9800X3D scores roughly 1350 points, representing a nearly 25% gain, while its frequency is 30% higher than the stock one. The consumption of a 9800X3D in this benchmark is typically 90-100W, but with this high overclocking, it has reached 251W.
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