Intel Xeon W9-3495X Can Pull up to 1,900 Watts in Extreme OC Scenarios

[AleksandarK]

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.

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[lexluthermiester]

Good grief! Seriously? There are homes in North America that couldn't run that CPU at that speed and have enough power left over for the rest of the system. Everytime you'd get close, you'd blow a breaker.

 

[Minus Infinity]

How ironic if a farm of these were used for climate modeling

 

[Bwaze]

That's... Impresive how far you can push the small conductive traces inside CPU and motherboard!

Practicallity of this achievement is of course zero.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

It's show time.

 

[Crackong]

 

[kondamin]

How ironic if a farm of these were used for climate modeling

Wouldn't be much of an issue if it were powered by hydro wind or nuclear
Wish they never stopped building nuclear plants so energy efficient electrical outlet connected computers never became a thing.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

it can pull almost 1900W if it wants to. =O

 

[Denver]

They should be proud to achieve such efficiency...The FX 9590 must be jealous

 

[Flanker]

What the actual....

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

They're getting close to Cerberus territory with only 56 cores, ridiculous.

 

[ratirt]

Oh wow. I wonder if Intel can make a CPU that would pull as much with only 28 cores which is half of what that CPU has. Any bets?

 

[john_]

Intel and the Environment

 

[Outback Bronze]

Holy Shit

 

[Assimilator]

Intel and the Environment

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Yes, because liquid nitrogen overclocking is something that Intel recommends and endorses

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Wouldn't be much of an issue if it were powered by hydro wind or nuclear

I disagree. More expenses* of energy=more thermal pollution.
*In the cause from CPU.

 

[terroralpha]

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i know you're meme-ing, but sustainability is more about the power draw of a product. things like ethical raw material sourcing, making products recyclable and efficient production facilities are more important.

having said that, i don't have any confidence in intel doing any of that correctly either.

 

[zlobby]

PSU vendors are leaking their new designs that can feed intel's:

 

[N/A]

extreme OC scenarios are not your typical power, so why are you overobsessing over that. CPU is meant to run at 3.5Ghz 450W at quarter the power and only for a brief moment.

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.

 

[PLAfiller]

Ohh...the sarcasm in this thread....delicious Can't wait a few years down the lane, youtubers going: best bang for the buck/gaming on the cheap! with used Dell Optiplex/ HP/ Lenovo Thinkpad workstation...going...ohh it pulls 1900W from the WALL!! Emotional DAAMAGE!

 

[Panther_Seraphin]

I disagree. More expenses* of energy=more thermal pollution.
*In the cause from CPU.

Not sure if sarcastic but ill bite

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.

 

[zlobby]

Not sure if sarcastic but ill bite

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.

True. And let's thank intel for their fair contribution and misleading labeling (TDP, etc.)

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Oddly familiar...

It's only a matter of time before they summon Cthulu!

 

[TumbleGeorge]

The amount of heat radiated by the planet when not facing the sun is more than enough to keep

I can already see you justifying some inefficient 19000 watt CPU with this defective argument.

 

[Daven]

Another day another story about the incredible waste of power that seems to permeate all Intel products.

 

[john_]

Yes, because liquid nitrogen overclocking is something that Intel recommends and endorses

Defending Intel (Nvidia in other cases) again?

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).