A processor is the most complex electronic part in existence today, not only because of the billions of transistors that fit into such a small space, but also because of the way they are organized. Normally, manufacturers talk to us about their organization in general, but it’s an emerging system where if we move from the complex to the specific, we’ll realize that we have unknown structures. What does overclocking have to do with it? A lot and we have just been confirmed with extreme overclocking that the architecture of the Intel Core 13 does not have four changes compared to its predecessor.
How did the Intel Core i9-13900K hit 8.2 GHz?
Well, this question has two answers, the first one is the simpler and more obvious one, so we will focus on that as the main explanation. In the middle of the Intel Creator Challengethe famous overclocking expert All goliber searches I am performing a live demo, using advanced techniques, to show how far you can increase the frequency or clock speed of your next Top processor, if we exclude the dual version of it, the i9- 13900KS.
The technique used is the classic use of liquid nitrogen to cool the CPU, which due to its chemical properties can cool this CPU down to -193°C temperature and be able to have room to get the highest clock speed in the history of a home CPU , 8.2 GHz, although yes , the frequency increase was concentrated on a single core. which was configured with a base clock speed of 100 MHz and one x82 multiplier.
This figure exceeds the record reached by the Ryzen 9 7950X which uses the same techniques which reach a speed of 7.5 GHz. Of course, the AMD processor is designed to perform with slightly lower power consumption and temperatures, which is a drawback in these extreme overclocking exercises. At the same time, this also breaks the 7.49 GHz record held by the i9-12900KS under liquid nitrogen.
Higher speed per architecture
With the Intel Core 13, it became clear to us that its designers went down a different path than AMD, and that was that instead of improving performance per clock cycle, they chose to make them faster. This often requires increasing the number of steps that instructions must traverse to resolution, which results in the need to expend more transistors or reorganize existing resources.
The fact that the Intel Core i9-13900K processor is clocked at 8.2 GHz may seem like a trivial exercise to us, but it shows us that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, this time on a processor. In addition to teaching us, the biggest muscle in resources that the blue brand has, able to launch new architecture on a yearly basis at this point. In the meantime, we are waiting for the release, probably for the 20th of this monthto test its performance.
