AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X, the incoming flagship for next-gen Zen four processors, has been noticed boosting as much as 5.85GHz – however there are caveats to be noticed right here.

This newest Zen four leak comes from a Weibo (opens in new tab) person (a social media platform in China), so have to be handled with extra warning than traditional, and it was flagged up by HXL on Twitter (an everyday supply of {hardware} leakage, with the tweet being highlighted by VideoCardz (opens in new tab)).

Raphael 2x Durango CCD 16x Persephone CoreRyzen 9 7950X 5.7GHz (PBO/XFR 5.85GHz)5.85 vs 5.8（Intel RPL）https://t.co/BZM5fHaU5G pic.twitter.com/Uc5VDMZ0bKAugust 28, 2022

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As you may see, the leaker purportedly has a Ryzen 9 7950X that hits 5.85GHz as talked about – large quantities of salt required, in fact, and precisely what that pace means, we’ll focus on shortly – and Intel’s Raptor Lake flagship will apparently attain 5.8GHz at high pace compared.

The pace of 5.85GHz does line up with a earlier high pace floated for the Zen four flagship by Angstronomics (a effectively considered supply), and the Weibo leaker does additionally present a CPU-Z screenshot of the pre-release 7950X.

Evaluation: Whichever approach you cube it, the 7950X seems fairly sharp

Clearly that is one we should be fairly skeptical about, but when true, the 7950X being able to that form of enhance is clearly fairly the eye-opener. Now, the leaker makes the purpose that the Ryzen CPU truly boosts to five.7GHz, with 5.85GHz recorded through PBO (Precision Increase Overdrive – in different phrases, the automated overclocking mode you may change on to get a bit extra efficiency out of your chip).

Nonetheless, as one other well-known Twitter leaker (Uzzi38 (opens in new tab)) chimes in, what’s truly taking place with this pattern 7950X is that it’s hitting 5.85GHz with no PBO wanted, however that is only a peak frequency – reached most likely fairly briefly, right here and there. In different phrases, the quoted max enhance on the field of the flagship Zen four chip will likely be decrease than this (extra just like the talked about 5.7GHz).

Precise speeds will, as ever, depend upon the standard of the processor you purchase – there’s at all times some variance inside CPU fashions, generally known as the silicon lottery – however regardless of the case, AMD may have an official (default) max enhance set at a suitably low degree so all chips can reliably hit it, for apparent causes.

Regardless of the case for the precise high enhance pace for the Ryzen 9 7950X, it seems prefer it’ll be very near the identical ballpark because the Raptor Lake champ, the Core i9-13900Ok. As soon as once more, that is one other trace that the battle between Zen four and Intel’s 13th-gen silicon will likely be a really shut one.

We’ll know much more about Ryzen 7000 tomorrow, as AMD has its launch occasion for the next-gen processors going forward through a livestream. There’s a great probability we’ll discover out the official rated enhance pace for the flagship 7950X at this occasion.

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