By Darren Allan
AMD’s first batch of mighty Ryzen Threadripper processors officially launch today, but folks who’ve got hold of a chip already have been testing out its overclocking potential, and the good news is it seems the 1950X is a seriously strong performer in this department.
This leak comes from a Reddit denizen (going by the name ‘calling the wolf’) who claims to have pushed a Threadripper 1950X to 4.1GHz across all 16-cores, a good chunk above its base clock speed of 3.4GHz.
This was pulled off using liquid cooling (Thermaltake Water 3.0 – which can be had for around $170, or £130 in the UK) in an ASRock X399 Professional Gaming motherboard.
At this speed, the processor achieved a multi-core score of 58,391 points in Geekbench 3, which compares favorably to Intel’s Core i9-7900X, which generally hits around the 45,000 mark with a similarly chunky overclock (depending on the exact overclock and test system you look at).
In Cinebench R15, the 1950X recorded a score of 3,337 running at 4.0GHz, which as PC Gamer observes is considerably nippier than the aforementioned Core i9-7900X, which racks up around 2,460 at 4.6GHz.
The Intel chip is a 10-core model rather than 16-cores, granted, …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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