Superstar overclocker Allen ‘Splave’ Golibersuch has overclocked the Core i9-13900K processor to eight.2 GHz below liquid nitrogen (LN2) on the finale of Intel’s Creator Problem (opens in new tab). The flagship Raptor Lake chip, which is able to combat for a spot on the listing of greatest CPUs, will hit the retail market on October 20 for $589.
The Core i9-13900K is a 24-core processor with eight P-cores and 16 E-cores. The chip has a most turbo enhance clock of 5.8 GHz due to Intel’s Thermal Velocity Increase (TVB) know-how. Splave pushed the Core i9-13900K to eight.2 GHz, a spectacular 41% enhance over Intel’s specification.
The Core i9-13900K exhibits big overclocking potential— in distinction, the prior-gen Core i9-12900K solely achieved 7.6 GHz. Due to this fact, the Core i9-13900K shattered the Core i9-12900K’s document by 8%.
AMD’s Zen 4 processors have their very own deserves as properly. For instance, we just lately noticed the Ryzen 9 7950X obtained as much as 7.2 GHz on a single core and as much as 6.5 GHz on all cores. Nevertheless, in keeping with HWBot, 7.4 GHz (7,471.96 MHz) is the best that the Ryzen 9 7950X has reached. Due to this fact, the Core i9-13900K’s clock velocity is roughly 11% larger than the Ryzen 9 7950X.
It will be fascinating to see whether or not Raptor Lake can proceed to beat the overclocking charts. It has been some time since we have seen processors surpass the 8 GHz barrier. AMD’s antiquated FX sequence of chips had been infamous for hitting excessive clock speeds, and a lot of the HWBot submissions hail from the Bulldozer days. Nevertheless, the FX-8370 nonetheless holds the document of the highest-clocked processor at 8.7 GHz (8,722.78 MHz), a feat from 2014.
Whereas Intel and AMD proceed to one-up one another within the overclocking recreation, customers care extra about out-of-the-box efficiency. So whereas the Core i9-13900K appears spectacular below LN2, we’ll quickly see if it could actually overpower AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X when Raptor Lake launches on October 20.
