Intel’s Raptor Lake flagship has had one other significantly spectacular overclock utilized, one which’s even quicker than the leaked 8GHz feat we witnessed final month.
The distinction this time is that that is an official overclock of the Core i9-13900Ok by a professional within the area, ‘Slave’ (Allen Golibersuch), who managed to get the CPU to run at 8.2GHz.
As Tom’s Hardware reviews, this was a part of Intel’s Creator Problem and as you may think, Splave didn’t use conventional cooling, however somewhat liquid nitrogen (as is invariably the case, or equally unique cooling that may be completed at the house, and is simply good for a short interval of operation).
Splave managed to push Alder Lake’s equal, the 12900Ok, to 7.6GHz, so with this overclock to eight.2GHz, the Raptor Lake flagship is 8% quicker, even earlier than it’s launched.
Evaluation: A tempting proposition for PC pace demons
It’s a thrilling instance for PC tinkerers and lovers, then. The overclocking potential for Raptor Lake is the strongest seen for a variety of Core processors in ages, with the final time an Intel chip crested the 8GHz mark being over a decade in the past.
The quickest in the latest reminiscence was the Core i9-10900Ok hitting 7.7GHz, and that’s been nice and crushed already. The factor to recollect is after the 13900Ok has been launched, it’ll inevitably be pushed to better heights. For instance, the 12900Ok topped out at 6.8GHz in its overclocking capabilities when first launched, however that was later crushed by the aforementioned 7.6GHz.
In concept, then, we may nicely see the 13900Ok storm into 8.5GHz plus territory finally by the hands of consultants utilizing liquid nitrogen. At that time, the CPU can be difficult the quickest speeds ever reached by a desktop processor (over 8.7GHz, and people’s very quickest chips are older fashions from AMD, its price noting).
Whereas the typical PC proprietor is not going to see efficiency in something like this, it suggests extra regular overclocking – utilizing liquid cooling maybe, or a very good air cooler – will produce spectacular outcomes too. And certainly, there was a leak displaying the 13900Ok purportedly operating at a mighty 6.5GHz (on a single-core) with a normal liquid cooling answer (add your salt, possibly a couple of shakes right here, as ever with the rumour mill).
All indicators level a promising degree of overclocking efficiency for Raptor Lake, which may very well be a potent lure for lovers and an element that might fear AMD. The brand new Zen four flagship, AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X, has hit closing on 7.5GHz to this point (once more with liquid nitrogen), so the 13900Ok is nearly bang-on 10% higher than that at this level within the overclocking wars. A niche that’s unlikely to be closed, after all, as time progresses…
