Just hours after the release of the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX processors with 32 cores and 64 threads, they're already generating buzz. Indonesian professional overclocker Ivan Cupa has managed to push this processor to a clock speed of 5955.4MHz across all cores.
Threadripper 2990WX @ 6.0GHz with liquid nitrogen
To achieve this milestone, the MSI MEG X399 Creation motherboard has been used combined with the Corsair AX1500i power supply with an official power of 1500W. These components combined with the Ryzer Master function has allowed the overclocker to reach a voltage of 1.45V allowing this processor to reach the 6.0GHz frequency by means of liquid nitrogen.
Bringing all the cores of this processor to the 6.0GHz frequency is not an easy task since the more cores the more heat is generated. Not only the difficulty lies in controlling the temperature of the processor but also of the VRMs and that they have the ability to power the processor.
Raising the frequency to 6.0GHz has allowed it to achieve the world record in a large amount of software such as the GPUPI, HWBOT x256 benchmark @ 4K, Geekbench or Cinebench R15, establishing for the latter case a total of 8532 points at a frequency of 5.37GHz . Curiously, the mysterious 2018-core Computex 28 processor managed to reach 7334 points at a frequency of 5.0GHz.
Beyond the interesting thing about this record that shows the ability to improve through advanced techniques of this processor, it indicates that the silicon is of quite good quality and that the motherboards (at least it is from MSI) can offer good performance and support well. high working voltages.
Comparing the results, Intel's 28-core processor only offers 5% more IPC than the Threadripper (based on Cinebench result ÷ cores ÷ frequency)