Whenever AMD or Intel release a new generation of processors, the overclockers They are rushing to test their ability to “turn it up a gear” and see what the new processors are capable of. In relation to the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X We already saw before that it looked very, very good, to the point of being considered “a beast” by many, but what they have achieved now goes beyond all measures: it becomes the 5th fastest processor in historyonly behind professional processors such as Intel Xeon or AMD Threadripper.
All this comes to a result issued in the well-known benchmark 3DMark Time Spy Extremewhere a water-cooled AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (i.e. with conventional liquid cooling, not liquid nitrogen as is often the case in these records) has placed as the 5th best processor, only behind, as we said, AMD’s Threadripper or Intel’s Xeon. A real milestone.
The Ryzen 9 9950X is a beast for overclocking
AMD’s next flagship, the Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9 9950X, designed to compete with the best processors on the market, is already breaking some world records, and in this case it’s also cooled by conventional liquid cooling, like the one you or I might have in our PCs. This is important, because overclocking records are usually achieved using liquid nitrogen, and that’s not something we can have in our homes, nor is it something that will last long enough for us to have a PC like that permanently.
User DOMDTXDISSAR submitted five tests to HWBot with this processor, one of them in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme, where the Ryzen 9 9950X scored an impressive 29,102 marks, placing it as the fifth-best processor in history in this test. And the best thing of all is that it holds this position only surpassed by processors with many more cores, such as the Threadripper Pro 5995WX, the Threadripper 3990X or the Xeon W9-3495X. In addition, the Ryzen 9 9950X also currently occupies the first place among processors with 16 physical cores.
This milestone was achieved using, as we said, an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, with an ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Gene motherboard, 32 GB of TeamGroup Delta RGB DDR5 RAM at 8000 MHz and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (which in this test, specific to the CPU, is not very important either). The cooling used was custom liquid cooling, and the processor did not exceed 87.2 ºC during the test, which was at 5,725 MHz (an overclock of 19.27%).
Now stop and think… if this has been achieved using custom liquid cooling, how far can they go using liquid nitrogen? The Ryzen 9 9950X is giving us a lot to talk about, so it wouldn’t be surprising if we also see new top speed records very soon, as it is sure to become the favorite toy of professional overclockers before long.
The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (and the rest of the Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series) are expected to hit stores starting August 15, and this particular processor will be the flagship at $599.