Every time AMD or Intel launch a new generation of processors, the overclockers They are rushing to test their ability to “turn up the volume” and see what the new processors are capable of. Related AMD Ryzen 9 9950X We have already seen before that he painted very, very well, to the point of being considered by many as “a beast”, but what they have achieved now surpasses all measures: it becomes the 5th fastest processor in historyonly behind professional processors such as Intel Xeon or AMD Threadripper.
All this results in a result published in the well-known benchmark 3DMark Time Spy Extremewhere an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X water-cooled (i.e. with conventional liquid cooling, without liquid nitrogen as is common in these records) was placed as the 5th best processor, just behind, as we said, AMD’s Threadripper or Intel Xeon. A real milestone.
The Ryzen 9 9950X is a beast for overclocking
AMD’s next flagship, the Ryzen 9 9950X with Zen 5 architecture and designed to compete with the best processors on the market, is already breaking some world records, and is also in this case cooled by conventional liquid cooling, like the one you or I can have on our PCs. This is important, because usually overclock records are obtained using liquid nitrogen, and it is not something we can have at home, nor something that lasts long enough to have a PC like this permanently.
User DOMDTXDISSAR submitted five tests to HWBot with this processor, including one in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme, where the Ryzen 9 9950X achieved an impressive score of 29,102 points, placing it as the fifth best processor in history in this test. And the best of all is that it holds this position, surpassed only by processors with many more cores, such as the Threadripper Pro 5995WX, Threadripper 3990X or Xeon W9-3495X. In addition, the Ryzen 9 9950X also currently occupies the first place among the 16 physical processors.
They achieved this milestone using, as we said, an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, with an ASUS ROG Crosshair for the CPU, it doesn’t matter much either). The cooling used was a custom liquid and the processor did not exceed 87.2 ºC during the test, or 5,725 MHz (a 19.27% overclock).
And now stop and think… if this was achieved through custom liquid cooling, how far can they go using liquid nitrogen? The truth is that the Ryzen 9 9950X gives a lot to say, so it wouldn’t be strange if we also see new maximum speed records very soon, as it will surely become the favorite toy of professional overclockers in a short time.
The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (and the rest of the Ryzen 9000 with Zen 5 architecture) is expected to hit stores starting August 15, and this particular processor will be the flagship with a price tag of $599.
