News AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Hits 4.3 GHz On All 16 Cores With Water Cooling

[nicalandia]

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Hits 4.3 GHz On All 16 Cores With Water Cooling

Gigabyte manages to push a Ryzen 9 3950X to 4.3 GHz on all its cores using liquid cooling...at a mere 1.4 vCore.

www.tomshardware.com

Well dang, that's impressive.

 

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Interesting that it's "easy to cool as an 8-core counterpart"

 

[nicalandia]

Interesting that it's "easy to cool as an 8-core counterpart"

That is one of many advantages of binning Chiplets..!

 

[Atari2600]

Ah, but how many will be binned like that?

[Or do we really expect this to be reflective of the average?]

 

[Markfw]

Ah, but how many will be binned like that?

[Or do we really expect this to be reflective of the average?]

I will let you all know when I get mine (the minute they are available.)

 

[Topweasel]

Ah, but how many will be binned like that?

[Or do we really expect this to be reflective of the average?]

Honestly I would guess so, I mean AMD probably could be using a golden sample. But with higher Boosts I assume it should have higher OC ability even specially if we are talking about just an extra 100 MHz or so.

 

[nicalandia]

Ah, but how many will be binned like that?

[Or do we really expect this to be reflective of the average?]

I Don't see why not.! I am sure that they not only binned the CCD but also the CCX, so only the best of the best are going to 3950X, TR3

 

[nicalandia]

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Overclocked and Benchmarked at 4.4 GHz - 4.3 GHz Stated As Sweet-Spot, Outperforms The 24 Core Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX

AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X 16 core flagship processor has its overclocking potential of 4.3 GHz revealed by Gigabyte in their latest overclock guide.

wccftech.com

3950X O.C beating 2970WX Core ThreadRipper and 18 core 9980X

 

[soresu]

As some Australian seagulls are fond of saying.....

MINE MINE MINE MINE!!!!

 

[Shmee]

That is a pretty decent all core OC, especially for 16 cores. Also, 1.4V is decent for a Ryzen 3k chip, considering they boost to around 1.5V normally. I wonder what the load power draw for that chip's OC was though.

 

[IEC]

That is a pretty decent all core OC, especially for 16 cores. Also, 1.4V is decent for a Ryzen 3k chip, considering they boost to around 1.5V normally. I wonder what the load power draw for that chip's OC was though.

By comparison my "bad" chiplet on my 3900X does 4.3GHz at ~1.34V. And the "good" chiplet does 4.4GHz at ~1.34V. My 3700X does 4.3GHz all-core on less voltage, and 4.4GHz @ 1.368V.

I'm not terribly impressed by 4.3GHz all-core @ 1.4V. That suggests to me that the 3950X may have the same binning strategy as the 3900X - 1 "good" chiplet, and 1 "bad" chiplet. If so, I'll probably skip it in favor of waiting until 2020 and Zen 3.

 

[EXCellR8]

Nice!

 

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By comparison my "bad" chiplet on my 3900X does 4.3GHz at ~1.34V. And the "good" chiplet does 4.4GHz at ~1.34V. My 3700X does 4.3GHz all-core on less voltage, and 4.4GHz @ 1.368V.

I'm not terribly impressed by 4.3GHz all-core @ 1.4V. That suggests to me that the 3950X may have the same binning strategy as the 3900X - 1 "good" chiplet, and 1 "bad" chiplet. If so, I'll probably skip it in favor of waiting until 2020 and Zen 3.

Are those static volts, at static all core clocks? What windows power plan?

 

[IEC]

Are those static volts, at static all core clocks? What windows power plan?

Yes, yes, and AMD Ryzen High Performance using the latest chipset drivers and AGESA 1003AB

However, I find OCing to be pointless for daily use because at stock my Ryzen 3700X boosts in the 4250-4275 range during gaming loads while staying under stock power limits. At stock settings it is giving me comparable gaming performance to my OC 8700K while using literally 1/2 the power.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Yes, yes, and AMD Ryzen High Performance using the latest chipset drivers and AGESA 1003AB

However, I find OCing to be pointless for daily use because at stock my Ryzen 3700X boosts in the 4250-4275 range during gaming loads while staying under stock power limits. At stock settings it is giving me comparable gaming performance to my OC 8700K while using literally 1/2 the power.

Does it maintain static boosts during the entire gaming time, or does it fluctuate??

 

[IEC]

Does it maintain static boosts during the entire gaming time, or does it fluctuate??

Fluctuates by 25-50MHz depending on load. But keep in mind my boosts are limited by the older AGESA. I would suspect that once 1003ABBA is available for my board it will be closer to 4275-4300 typical boosts while gaming. Supposedly AGESA 1004 is coming in November, which may further improve stock performance.

 

[GaiaHunter]

I'm not terribly impressed by 4.3GHz all-core @ 1.4V. That suggests to me that the 3950X may have the same binning strategy as the 3900X - 1 "good" chiplet, and 1 "bad" chiplet. If so, I'll probably skip it in favor of waiting until 2020 and Zen 3.

They are all crap and crappier chiplets.
AMD hasn't enough capacity to have good chiplets for the desktop.

 

[Markfw]

They are all crap and crappier chiplets.
AMD hasn't enough capacity to have good chiplets for the desktop.

They have plenty of capacity. And they have good chipslets for the desktop. What are you talking about ?

 

[Atari2600]

They are all crap and crappier chiplets.
AMD hasn't enough capacity to have good chiplets for the desktop.

I'd say at least one other CPU manufacturer wishes they had chiplets that crappy.

 

[inf64]

They are all crap and crappier chiplets.
AMD hasn't enough capacity to have good chiplets for the desktop.

Please stop posting nonsense. Thanks.

 

[DrMrLordX]

1.4v? Ouch. That's actually kind of bad for anything high-current (which CBR15 isn't really, but still). They probably didn't run 1.4v actual, but instead used default UEFI settings and wound up with some vdroop. Still kind of high for that workload, though. They should be able to pull 4.3 GHz somewhere in the 1.25-1.3v actual range. I can do 4.3 GHz on an x570 Aorus Master - same board as the linked article - with 1.248v according to CPU-z. That's with LLC off and -.1v offset. Ryzen Master reports 1.375v. I think they may just have a "meh" sample or they just didn't spend a lot of time tweaking settings to get that voltage down.

edit: the above is with a 3900x. 3950x should take about the same amount of voltage for the same workload at the same clockspeed. Should.

 

[GaiaHunter]

They have plenty of capacity. And they have good chipslets for the desktop. What are you talking about ?

The CPUs are good, no doubts about that.
The chiplets though are bottom of the barrel.

Compare the Threadripper 1 and 2 launch with Threadripper 3.
It seems the initial release will be a 24 cores not a 32 cores, i.e. not a fully functional chip.

Lets see if the 3950X isn't delayed again and if it will be more than a paper launch.

 

[GaiaHunter]

I'd say at least one other CPU manufacturer wishes they had chiplets that crappy.

The CPUs are very good.
The chiplets aren't the top bins though - just look at silicon lottery results.

 

[amrnuke]

The CPUs are very good.
The chiplets aren't the top bins though - just look at silicon lottery results.

"aren't the top bins" is a lot different from "they are all crap and crappier chiplets" and "the chiplets though are bottom of the barrel".

So you're telling me the 3800X single chiplet with all 8 cores enabled is "bottom of the barrel" and "crap and crappier" chiplet? The one that draws 20% less power than the 9900K but comes within 5% or beats it in basically all tests? Right.

 

[therealmongo]

Why feed the trolls ?