There’s an new king of the HWBot overclocking hill and it is the Intel Core i9 14900KF. Actually, the 14900KF has held the frequency file for CPUs earlier than. But a Chinese overclocker going by the identify “wytiwx” simply upped the ante to a brand new world file for any CPU ever of 9.12161 GHz.
Yup, as soon as once more it is an older Raptor Lake Intel CPU that is marginally elevated on the earlier file, the 9.11775 GHz achieved by a 14900KS in March final yr. In different phrases, Intel’s newest Arrow Lake CPUs, together with the Core Ultra 9 285K, are nowhere to be seen within the prime echelons of overclocking.
Is that due to Arrow Lake’s structure? Or is TSMC’s 3N silicon as used for Arrow Lake’s CPU cores not truly nearly as good as Raptor Lake’s Intel 7 node (the node previously often known as 10nm) at overclocking?
It’s presumably a little bit of each. But regardless of Intel’s well-publicised difficulties in terms of chip manufacturing know-how lately, there is not any doubting that Big Blue has a terrific monitor file in terms of attaining prime frequencies.
Intel is because of transfer again to its personal 18A node for top efficiency desktop CPU manufacturing with Panther Lake. So it is going to be attention-grabbing to see if Intel’s new 18A deskto CPUs can beat these outdated Raptor Lake chips and edge us nearer to the magic 10 GHz.
Anywho, wytiwx used an ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Apex motherboard and, inevitably, liquid helium for cooling to realize -258 levels C. Chilly.
If you are questioning, the quickest ever AMD CPU is the Bulldozer-based AMD FX 8370, which hit 8.7228 GHz over 10 years in the past. It’s additionally attention-grabbing to notice how the highest frequency achieved with a PC processor has levelled off lately.
Between 1996 and 2007, it shot up from simply 233 MHz to only over 8 GHz. But it took an extra 15 years from there to prime 9 GHz in 2022, and one other two years or so to go from 9.008 GHz to right this moment’s 9.12-and-a-bit GHz.
Way again within the yr 2000, Intel predicted it’d hit 10 GHz by 2005. Of course, again then Intel was all about clockspeed. Its Netburst Pentium 4 chips have been designed for uncooked frequency above all else and the belief was that improved CPU efficiency hinged largely on working frequencies going up.
Shortly afterward, Intel hit one thing of a clockspeed wall and the entire business switched tack in favour of extra cores operating quite slower than 10 GHz. Then once more, with enhancements in transistor density additionally levelling off, maybe we’ll see a return to an emphasis on frequency and that 10 GHz barrier may lastly be breached. Watch this area, peeps.
