AMD's new Ryzen 9 7950X processor is doing the benchmark rounds, with 4 x HWBOT records smashed and there was no exotic LN2 cooling used: just AIO cooling for the beasty new Zen 4 flagship CPU.
The new AMD Ryzen 9 7950X was installed into a few different motherboards depending on the overclocker, with the following motherboards used to smash the HWBOT records: GIGABYTE X670E AORUS MASTER, ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme, ASRock X670 Taichi, and MSI's new X670E MEG ACE motherboards. Cooling-wise, the overclockers were using a Corsair H115i AIO liquid cooler.
Cinebench R15, Cinebench R20, Cinebench R23, and 7-zip records were achieved with the overclocked Ryzen 9 7950X processor, with the CPUs running at between 5.4GHz and 5.5GHz across all of the Zen 4 cores, with temperatures between 87C and a rather toasty 108C according to the BenchMate data.
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AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 7950X has a 170W TDP and 230W PPT, with the overclockers finding power falling between 226W and 244W max power.
As for the scores, the Ryzen 9 7950X secures #1 position in Cinebench R23 and its multi-core benchmark with overclocker "Sampson" taking the top spot with 40498 points, beating overclocker "Splave" with 40421 points with the Core i9-12900KS processor.
Sampson also took out the Cinebench R15 and 7-zip HWBOT world records, with 6900 points in Cinebench R15 using the overclocked Ryzen 9 7950X processor, beating out overclocker "safedisk" with 6832 points on the Zen 3-based Ryzen 9 5950X.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X world records:
- Cinebench R23 - 40,498 pts nT (5.40 GHz + ASROCK X670E Taichi + 32GB Kingston DDR5)
- Cinebench R20 - 15,771 pts nT (5.35 GHz + GIGABYTE X670E AORUS Master + 32GB G.SKILL DDR5)
- Cinebench R15 - 6,900 pts nT (5.50 GHz + ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Hero + 16GB G.SKILL DDR5)
- 7-Zip - 228,992 MIPS (5.45 GHz + MSI MEG X670E ACE + 32GB Corsair DDR5)
In other Ryzen 9 7950X overclocking news, the new Zen 4 flagship CPU was overclocked to 7.2GHz recently. AMD's new Ryzen 9 7950X processor was overclocked in a big way, with a single-core frequency of 7247MHz (7.2GHz) with 1.506V and chilled with LN2 cooling, while 6.5GHz all-core was reached with a little less voltage -- 1.465V -- but the same LN2 cooling.
Not too shabby at all... 16 cores and 32 threads of next-gen Zen 4 CPU power at 6.5GHz, but not everyone has LN2 cooling. We already know that if you buy a high-end Ryzen 9 7950X you'll probably want to buy a high-end 360mm AIO cooler to go with it, especially if you want to see CPU clocks past 5.5GHz.
