Thursday, March 16th 2023
Intel Xeon W9-3495X Can Pull up to 1,900 Watts in Extreme OC Scenarios
Intel's latest Xeon processors based on Sapphire Rapids uArch have arrived in the hands of overclockers. Last week, we reported that the Intel Xeon W9-3495X is officially a world record holder for achieving the best scores in Cinebench R23 and R20, Y-Cruncher, 3DMark CPU test, and Geekbench 3. However, today we have another extreme overclocking attempt to beat the world record, with little more details about power consumption and what the new SKU is capable of. Elmor, an overclocker working with ASUS, has tried to break the world record and overclocked the Intel Xeon W9-3495X CPU to 5.5 GHz on all 56 cores. What is more impressive is the power that the processor can consume.
With a system powered by two Superflower Leadex 1,600 Watt power supply units, the CPU consumed almost 1,900 Watts of power from the wall. To manage to cool this heat output, liquid nitrogen was used, and the CPU stayed at a cool negative 95 degrees Celsius. The motherboard of choice for this attempt was ASUS Pro WS W790E-SAGE SE, paired with eight GSKILL Zeta R5 DDR5 R-DIMMs modules. And results were incredible, as the CPU achieved 132,220 points in Cinebench R23. However, the world record of the previous week has remained intact, as Elmor 's result is a bit behind last week's score of 132,484 points. Check the video below for more info.
Source:
via HardwareLuxx.de
With a system powered by two Superflower Leadex 1,600 Watt power supply units, the CPU consumed almost 1,900 Watts of power from the wall. To manage to cool this heat output, liquid nitrogen was used, and the CPU stayed at a cool negative 95 degrees Celsius. The motherboard of choice for this attempt was ASUS Pro WS W790E-SAGE SE, paired with eight GSKILL Zeta R5 DDR5 R-DIMMs modules. And results were incredible, as the CPU achieved 132,220 points in Cinebench R23. However, the world record of the previous week has remained intact, as Elmor 's result is a bit behind last week's score of 132,484 points. Check the video below for more info.
60 Comments on Intel Xeon W9-3495X Can Pull up to 1,900 Watts in Extreme OC Scenarios
That's... Impresive how far you can push the small conductive traces inside CPU and motherboard!
Practicallity of this achievement is of course zero.
Wish they never stopped building nuclear plants so energy efficient electrical outlet connected computers never became a thing.
*In the cause from CPU.
having said that, i don't have any confidence in intel doing any of that correctly either.
the motherboard handles it very well, but this is meaningless torture, i'd like to see the test run for 10 mins like it was meant to. couldn't care less for those 1 second 1 trick ponies.
but not bad at all 10 times faster than my 2690V4. see you in 10 years 56 core.
The amount of heat radiated by the planet when not facing the sun is more than enough to keep up with this "thermal pollution" if the CO2 levels are kept in moderation.
The fact we are pumping out so much CO2 and other greenhouse gases at a growing rate basically means we are coating the earth in a lovely thick layer of insulation. Problem is that it does nothing to stop the heat from the sun etc coming in but stops it pretty much dead leaving the earth at night.
It's only a matter of time before they summon Cthulu!
Well. They are pushing power consumption to retain the first spot on benchmarks, or in other case just remain as much competitive as possible. That's a fact. They do this out of necessity of course. If they had 3nm or even 5nm ready, power efficiency would have been one of their advantage and the jokes would have been on AMD (AMD been in the same spot in the past, 220W AMD FX CPUs, AMD R9 Fury just a couple examples).