Thursday, December 29th 2016
AMD's Upcoming Ryzen Chips to Reportedly Overclock @ 5 GHz On Air
French hardware magazine "CANARD PC HARDWARE" has apparently confirmed that AMD's upcoming Ryzen chips will be able to achieve overclocks of at least 5 GHz on air, if an easter egg hidden on the magazine's Ryzen feature. On page 10 of the digital magazine (which you can look at on the provided link) as well as the physical version, a cryptic string of binary code can be found on top of the page (for reference, the string is as follows: 010110100110010101101110010011110100001101000000010000010110100101110010001111010011010101000111). When you paste this string of binary code on any online binary to plain text converter, you get a revelation that's sure to put a little more coal on the hype train's furnace: ZenOC@Air=5G.
Apparently, the entire article is premised on an early engineering sample that the magazine managed to put its hands on - so we're not even talking about final-stepping silicon. Granted, the information, left as more of an Easter egg tease than a reveal onto itself, raises more questions than it answers (as any good, hype-generating event always does): at what voltage were the 5 GHz achieved at? How many cores did the Ryzen sample possess? Were they all operational? Was it a stable overclock? If so, for how long? What cooling solution was used?
There are potentially many more questions left unanswered by this tease, but nevertheless, this seems like a good sign for the Ryzen bandwagon.
Sources:
Reddit; user lolwut996633, Reddit; user DotaldTrump
There are potentially many more questions left unanswered by this tease, but nevertheless, this seems like a good sign for the Ryzen bandwagon.
90 Comments on AMD's Upcoming Ryzen Chips to Reportedly Overclock @ 5 GHz On Air
A story for the ages indeed.....lol
It won't rock. It won't suck, either.
At least, it won't suck like bulldozer or the latest batch, but it's not going to be the end-all either. It's just going to be a good price-performance product.
My 1650v3 and most other will tell you only the best of the best chips on air or water get 4.5GHz stable.
Understanding what you read can be helpful...
Maybe, just maybe, the reason is because your CPU is already on 5ghz when turbo is enabled?
The H110 is a hell out a beast CPU cooler. Try overclock your 9590 to 6.9ghz and tell me the results
3.4ghz + 47% = 5.0ghz
4.7ghz + 47% = 6.9ghz
I have tried to push it - the max was around 5.6 GHz - but was not stable. Sure if it´s only to see how high it can go for a moment,
but not recommendable for everyday use.
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Although judging from the blender benchmark the IPC will be good, so if it does OC well AMD are on to a winner. Hopefully anyway.
We'll only know for sure when they actually get released I guess. Until then it's all speculation :)
4.2-4.4 GHz could be doable at all cores.
Also said air cooler ,what's it ,OEM or bad ass flat out crazy one it matters so much ,only time will tell.
The rumour mill suggests Intel is sitting on nothing special until they re-archetect x86.