It's well known that high-performance and professional CPUs are high-power, not designed for typical home users, but rather for environments with high electrical capacity, among other factors. CPUs categorized as High-End Desktop, such as the Intel Xeon, fit this definition, offering performance beyond what a home user needs with a correspondingly high power consumption . Now we can see the limits of these CPUs using extreme overclocking.
Intel's new Sapphire Rapids HEDT (High-End Desktop) platform has just hit the market. It is inevitable that overclockers want to try to push them to the limit, and they are already at it.
A new Intel Xeon can consume almost 2.000 watts overclocked
With Intel's Xeon W9-3495X processor , which incorporates 56 Golden Cove CPU cores and supports eight channels of DDR5 memory, the Sapphire Rapids platform is expected to deliver very high performance. And that's just the base model; it remains to be seen how it will perform under heavy load.
Intel 's new Xeon W series processors offer overclocking support . This has allowed overclocker Elmore to push a Xeon W9-3495X processor to 5,5 GHz across all 56 cores when used with an ASUS W790E-SAGE SE motherboard. And since we're talking about extreme overclocking, liquid nitrogen, one of the most widely used materials for industrial cooling, is used for cooling. The memory used is G.SKILL Zeta R5 DDR5.
Under load, Elmore's Xeon W9-3495X processor drew 1.881 watts of power. The system was powered by two 1.600 W Superflower Leadex power supplies, and its processor cooled to around -95 degrees Celsius under load.
In a video they posted to make their feat clear, it achieved a score of 132.220 points in Cinebench R23. This score that falls a few hundred points from his previous world record of 132.484 points, a score that he also achieved with a Xeon W9-3495X processor.
