A CPU world record has been broken by dousing a $6,000+ AMD chip in liquid nitrogen
It's a shame that AMD's Threadripper processors are no longer in the reach of most enthusiast gamers(opens in new tab) because the AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX just crushed a Cinebench run to net itself the world record. Proving once again that AMD's mammoth chip is not to be trifled with.
With a multithreaded score of 116,142 in Cinebench R23, overclocker TSAIK has net themselves the world number one spot(opens in new tab) (spotted by 9550pro on Twitter(opens in new tab)), beating out user blueleader with two AMD Epyc 7763 server chips at 113,566.
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The 5995WX is the biggest and baddest chip in AMD's Threadripper lineup, which originally began as an enthusiast desktop CPU range. It's not so much nowadays, however, as the 5995WX will set you back $6,499—tough to come to terms with paying that amount of money without access to the company credit card.
Still, it's an absolute monster of a processor, with 64 Zen 3 cores with 128 available threads, running at up to 4.5GHz boost clock. That naturally gives this chip a leg-up in multithreaded benchmarks such as the Cinebench R23 run it's dominated today, but there is of course more to this feat than mere silicon power alone.
The overclocker responsible for this run, TSAIK, has used liquid nitrogen to run this chip at 5,150MHz, which is an impressive 650MHz bump (if not more in actual clock terms), especially for a multithreaded run. With a single-threaded run you could expect to see a massive leap in clock speed, as it's only necessary to cherry-pick the best core on the silicon and push that to its limits. Whereas with a multithreaded run you sort of need as many cores
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