If there was any doubt that AMD's new Threadripper CPUs are the undisputed kings of multithreading performance and in many ways, the most powerful CPUs ever created, overclocking them has sealed the deal. In a new test, one overclocker has managed to overclock the 2990WX to 6GHz across all cores using liquid nitrogen. That's not one, or two, or even four cores, but all 32 cores and 64 threads.
This amazing feat was achieved by Indonesia overclocker, Ivan Cupa, who used a combination of the new flagship Threadripper CPU, an MSI MEG X399 Creation motherboard, a Corsair AX1500i PSU, and 8GB of G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 memory. The liquid nitrogen played a major role in making that overclock possible too, dropping the temperature of the CPU to -185 degrees Celsius and making it possible for it to handle voltages up to 1.45V on the core.
All of this means that the new Threadripper chip has destroyed a number of longstanding benchmark records. Ivan Cupa isn't the only one who's been able to make it sing. Fellow overclocker, BenchBros managed to get 5.2Ghz out of it and now holds the 32-core record in GeekBench3, and beats out every other combination of CPUs that has ever been thrown against that particular benchmark, save one. A 96-core, quad-CPU Xeon server machine and even that system only managed less than 10 percent more points.
Benchbros also holds the WPRIME 1024M world record using a 2990WX overclocked to 5.3GHz. With a time of just 18 seconds and 420ms, it is far and away the fastest chip to ever tackle the benchmark.
