Wednesday, September 14th 2022
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Boosts to 5.85 GHz Only if You Can Keep it Under 50°C
AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 7950X 16-core processor can boost at speeds of up to 5.85 GHz, even though its maximum boost frequency in the specs is 5.70 GHz. The processor needs temperatures below 50°C to boost up to 5.85 GHz. Above these temperatures, it will only boost up to the 5.70 GHz on the tin. There are four frequencies to keep in mind about the 7950X. First is the base frequency, of 4.50 GHz. Next up, is the all-core boost frequency, of 5.10 GHz. This is the frequency at which the processor can run all 16 of its cores, provided it stays away from the 95°C temperature throttle. 5.70 GHz is the maximum boost frequency you'll get on "some" of the cores if the temperature is maintained between 50-95°C. If you're able to keep temperature below 50°C, the processor can boost up to 5.85 GHz. AMD refers to 5.85 GHz as the "peak clock."
To be able to hit peak clocks, you should ideally need some serious cooling, such as a 360 mm DIY liquid cooling setup, or a 420 mm AIO CLC; however in some circumstances, such as the system starting up from a cold-boot in a room with low ambient temperatures, the processor should hit peak clocks as it's approaching the 50°C-mark. AMD is making no pretenses that the 7950X is a high-power chip. Its TDP is rated at 170 W, and its PPT (package power tracking) limit at 230 W. By setting the TDP at 170 W from the get go, AMD is hinting that one can forget about aftermarket tower-type air-cooling, and head straight to AIO liquid cooling.
Source:
Wccftech
To be able to hit peak clocks, you should ideally need some serious cooling, such as a 360 mm DIY liquid cooling setup, or a 420 mm AIO CLC; however in some circumstances, such as the system starting up from a cold-boot in a room with low ambient temperatures, the processor should hit peak clocks as it's approaching the 50°C-mark. AMD is making no pretenses that the 7950X is a high-power chip. Its TDP is rated at 170 W, and its PPT (package power tracking) limit at 230 W. By setting the TDP at 170 W from the get go, AMD is hinting that one can forget about aftermarket tower-type air-cooling, and head straight to AIO liquid cooling.
75 Comments on AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Boosts to 5.85 GHz Only if You Can Keep it Under 50°C
Ive studied the 2700x boost behaviour. It would lower clocks once you pass 60 degrees (mind you these have a +10 degree difference programmed into it) and the higher the temp the lower the overall clocks.
So when i ramped up a 360mm with 6 fans into push pull, it would sit day and night at 58 degrees and even peaking at 188W power consumption.
I'm sure there's more to it you can do with a AIO such as a washer mod or even Liquid metal. Set the fan profile on aggresive. At least i'm satisfied and due to the split ccd's it should be easier to cool it rather then one big die.
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ST temperature spikes are instantenous and momentary, which doesn't allow the cooler fan to ramp up to compensate. Has been that way since Zen 2. Unless I keep the fan at a constant maximum, my CPU will be going over 50c in any realistic task.
Apparently, it could take a top performing 360mm AIO or CLC to extract maximum performance from Zen 4. And even that may not be enough when your ambient temperature is more than 20c.
(With decent cooling already in place) And I bet we'll find out you did an all core
overunderclock at 4.2GHz or something similar.Don't make claims without facts to back them up.
If anything, this would be even worse for something like 7800X.
What I was referring to is the unrealistically low thermal requirement for peak ST boost on the 7950X (and likely the 7900X, which boosts only 100 MHz lower). Zen 3 would reach its maximum clock with much higher temps. Agreed. Cooling a fully populated single CCD on Zen 4 will most likely be even more of a challenge.
AMD has been over volting all of its silicon for a long time now, I don't know why, probably they leave things like that as a "safe" margin that works on everything. Vega was legendary for how much extra performance it could get out of undervolting, and from what I've seen the Ryzens are like this too. It's not a bad thing since it can overclock itself to near its maximum with only thermals and power usage limiting it. But the voltage is set up too high and the chip will get very hot. My 3600 would hit 80C+ on its default settings with the base cooler; just setting the right voltages reduced that a lot but I forgot the exact numbers and I don't want to post "how I remember it" bullshit. Asrock B550M Steel Legend, CPU voltage is set to the highest negative OFFSET the board allows (-0.1V I think), SoC is set to a quarter of that (-0.025V I think). Setting the SoC too low actually got me random crashes, but the CPU has no issues. Cooler is a Hyper212 Black, with two Noctua A12 fans I managed to get used for a low price, they are set to running the absolute most silent profile (at 60C they hit 1180 RPM). At idle it varies at ~36-40C with the fans going at ~500 RPM only. dunno what to say, that seems to be the normal all-core clock for this cpu. In single thread it goes up to 4550MHz. Screenshot attached.
I'm not about to start dumping 100+ watts and a custom water loop just to get an extra 100MHz or so. It runs very cool, uses minimal power, and it's fast enough to do everything I use it for (photoshop, emulation, occasional mac VM, movie/audio converting, gaming).
If I disable the turbo clocks (I think the one called Core Performance Boost), then it will cap itself down to 3.8GHz, but on all cores and doesn't even hit 50C. Very ideal for the summer. And it doesn't make any real-world performance change that I can notice during normal usage, only the masturbatory benchmark scores are lower. Maybe audio transcoding is 10% slower but that just means 6 seconds instead of 5 for a longer album.
Cooler ID Cooling SE-224XT one fan fixed at 800 RPM.
2 x 200mm on intake fixed at 350RPM
2 x 140mm exhaust fixed at 600RPM
iirc the 5600g is just a 5600 with half the L3 cache and an IGP (which uses negligible power), and the 5600x is just a 5600 with +200 MHz. So the results are sort of comparable.
I do recall getting quite a bit higher temps on my cpu, until I re-arranged the fans so the second a12 was on the cpu heatsink instead of used as exhaust. It helped significantly to have an extra fan on the heatsink.
To me they are non existent.
In the end I would chalk it up to inadequate cooling.
- Current or power consumption
- Actual Core Temperature
- Motherboard Power delivery design
If any of those seem to fall beyond it's spec the chip will downclock. Its just a OC'ing feature on a automated basis, which can switch up to 50 times a second.
And it's clever, its just constantly extracting more performance out of the box for you rather then having to digg into endless hours of bios OC'ing.
Downside is that there's hardly any manual OC'ing headroom really because they figured out a way to bin the chips even better then before.
If you want longer lasting boost clocks, increase cooling or learn how to insert a negative voltage offset. It's basicly providing the CPU a bit lower voltage which makes the temperature and power consumption go lower, and thus being able to boost longer.
@maxfly This would be good for that case and the configuration we were discussing.
Pushing 250+ watts out of my 5950X and don't see over 75c on my custom loop. And my 3960X crushing along at 350+ watts doesn't see anything near 80c.
If you're cooking with a potato then I guess you get what you put in.
Not anywhere did I read aub zero temperatures in order to attain said frequencies.
At least this company is giving explanations as to why and how things work. Team blue still lets you just go ham with power and go to the moon if that's what you truly want. Have four alohacool nexxxos UT60 480mm (quad 140) and two UT60 360mm (triple 120) radiators in my caselabs STH-10 with pedestal. Triple lian-li DDC overvolted pumps in series.
Keeps 700 watt GPUs at or below 45c and my threadripper that can chug 350+ watts below 80c.
Pretty sure I can get to 6Ghz without a problem and good thermals.
Waiting on my EK full front/rear coverage water block for my 4090 to arrive so I can start in on GPU OC.
BIOS settings as I continue to experiment:
Rob