ASUS ROG Maximus XII Apex Hits 7.7 GHz on 10 Cores and Overclocks Memory to 6666 MHz

[btarunr]

ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced that overclockers have used the latest ROG Maximus XII Apex powerhouse motherboard to break a slew of world records and secure a raft of global first place scores. Marking a new performance milestone, overclockers took the Intel Core i9-10900K all the way up to 7.7 GHz frequencies on all 10 of its cores.

Because of the ongoing global situation, ASUS was unable to host its traditional overclocking gathering this year, so instead a smaller session took place at the ASUS headquarters in Taiwan - with local overclockers Jon 'Elmor' Sandström and Pieter 'Massman' Plaisier working alongside internal ASUS experts. Using a liquid-helium setup, the group managed to shatter the Intel Core architecture frequency record, the single-core Geekbench 4 record, and took global first-place positions in 10-core categories for Geekbench 3, Cinebench R15, and wPrime 32M.



Throughout the testing period, ASUS also worked with pros both near and far who flexed their prowess in a variety of benchmarks. Overclocker 'bianbao' leveraged the combined power of G.Skill and Intel to hit a new DDR4-memory-overclocking-frequency record of 6666 MHz. Intel's edge in gaming and graphical performance were shown off by both 'rsannino' and 'Rauf' who broke 3DMark records: 'rsannino' took the 3DMark06 overall world record, and 'Rauf' smashed the single-GPU score for version 11.

Showing the breadth of the platform, 'keeph8n' raked in a few records including Geekbench 4, Cinebench 2003 and GPUPI 3.2 100M. By far, the most accolades went to 'safedisk': four world records and seven global first place scores, including Cinebench R15, both HWBot x265 benchmarks, both wPrime scores, and both Super Pi records.

Validation links:
Intel Core CPU frequency record | Memory frequency | Geekbench3 - Multi Core | Geekbench4 - Single Core | Cinebench R15 | HWBot x265 Benchmark - 1080p | HWBot x265 Benchmark - 4K | wPrime - 32M | wPrime - 1024M | PiFast | SuperPi - 1M | SuperPi - 32M | GPUPI for CPU - 1B | 3DMark11 | Cinebench - 2003.

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[Metroid]

Intel could have an advantage x AMD if all bins could do 7.7ghz stock, the downside is extreme power consumption, probably 500 watts plus, amazing too see this happening. That is what happens when technology does not advance anymore, The Intel 14++++++++++++++ forever is the reason. Intel got so lazy that they thought AMD would never reach them, funny that AMD reached and surpassed Intel and now Intel is feeling exactly what AMD felt like all these years since 2006. That is a lesson to all the companies who stops from advancing technologically. Intel in pain is a great thing for the community as a whole.

 

[natr0n]

Amazing how 666 is everywhere in these troubled days we live.

 

[John Naylor]

Amazing how 666 is everywhere in these troubled days we live.

That's likely to be the most "technical" comment in this thread.

 

[Ferrum Master]

That's likely to be the most "technical" comment in this thread.

Imho intel itself was the most technical in the past rebranding 666 Celeron to 667...

 

[Waldorf]

Glad this was done with real world in mind.
Honey, wheres my LN 2 tank, wanna do 1 min of gaming...

 

[Bones]

Actually it was to an extent.
We'll never have faster stuff period until someone pushes the limits of what's out today to get useful data for making the better stuff we'd upgrade to tomorrow.
Although it was done as extreme OC'ing in this instance it also serves as part of of R&D whenever it's done.

I can promise you whenever one of these sessions is done in-house the engineers are at work too getting all they can to that end based on the results.

 

[hat]

Imho intel itself was the most technical in the past rebranding 666 Celeron to 667...

Or 667MHz DDR2

 

[yerodog]

I don't see anything wrong with that since we have DDR4-2666, DDR4-3666, DDR4-4666 and more.

 

[Kanan]

In old news: the absolute record, not only including Intel, is still hold by an Piledriver based AMD FX CPU.

 

[maxfly]

What's up with the third memory slot on that mb?

 

[Logoffon]

What's up with the third memory slot on that mb?

It's DIMM.2, which is their way of cramming extra two M.2 slots in addition to one next to the x4 slot.

 

[Bones]

In old news: the absolute record, not only including Intel, is still hold by an Piledriver based AMD FX CPU.

It's still a remarkable acheivement, esp with a chip arch that's basically brand new vs others.
And for kicks they threw in a new RAM speed record too.

I know a few FX chips won't hit 7.7GHz, got a couple of those myself but I do have others that's topped 8.0 before.

 

[Waldorf]

@Bones
then intel/its ppl are doing a bad job in the past 2-3y.
if i had "rocket scientist" working on my products, it better be on that level, not selling the old arc/+improvement/+improvement/+...
but the fact that they are still "looking" for clocks says it all.
SC/ST perf will get less relevant pretty soon once the new consoles are out.
console games wont require different versions/lots of code "change" to get run on the pc,
and since they dont run +5ghz chips, multi C/T cpus will benefit much more in coming years,
especially when stuff wont get optimized "just" for intel.

 

[Bones]

@Bones
then intel/its ppl are doing a bad job in the past 2-3y.
if i had "rocket scientist" working on my products, it better be on that level, not selling the old arc/+improvement/+improvement/+...
but the fact that they are still "looking" for clocks says it all.
SC/ST perf will get less relevant pretty soon once the new consoles are out.
console games wont require different versions/lots of code "change" to get run on the pc,
and since they dont run +5ghz chips, multi C/T cpus will benefit much more in coming years,
especially when stuff wont get optimized "just" for intel.

You just summed up alot of the situation going on at Intel right now.
They keep pushing things harder with what's basically the same arch. They are tweaking what they have but right now, not making alot of headway towards what they really wanted before. Doesn't mean there isn't something in the pipe that could be a game changer for them or that they won't eventually get things moving again.

I agree, the market focus has been badly skewed towards Intel for a very long time now and AMD is starting to change all that but it will take time. If Intel manages to fix things soon they can slow or even halt that trend, those that write software will undoubtedly go with what's the "Hottest" thing and right now AMD is it.

The multi-core approach has always been what AMD does and it's now becoming more apparent that's how things will be in the future, what could actually help Intel is to have what could be called better SC/ST performance in a multi-cored package combined with the speed improvements they've already made. AMD so far has been working on their own SC/ST issues and it's getting better but they still have work to do to truly come up even.... But they aren't that far off now, that's one of the things thats scaring the crap out of Intel plus their inability to come back with something that can truly counter what Ryzen has been doing since it was released.

Interesting times to come.