Although the Ryzen 2700X might still not be widely available for consumers, that doesn't mean some early testers and internal AMD staff haven't gotten their hands on the chip. Clearly someone who's rather a good overclocker has managed to get ahold of one of the 2700X chips too, as some results from one are now online for all to see
Twitter user, HardwareNumb3rs has been able to push a Ryzen 2700X to impressive heights -- 4.3GHz on all cores. Typically overclocking any such high-end chip will require limiting or shutting down additional cores to put all of the power and cooling capabilities into the single core, but it seems like the new Ryzen 2000 series CPUs overclock rather well even with all cors enabled, which is a great bonus for anyone planning to use these chips for multithreaded work like video or photo editing.
OC (Work in progress) Ryzen 7 2700X @ 4300MHz All Core - Cinebench R15 1958 Points with @ASUS_ROG Crosshair Hero VI (please update the bios!!!)
+ CPUz Validation @ 4350MHz #TestingRyzen2700X pic.twitter.com/M5jWDorONL— Hardware Numb3rs (@HardwareNumb3rs) April 6, 2018
With some cores disabled, WCCFTech reports that one other reviewer was able to push the 2700X up to 4.5GHz too, which may be of benefit to those looking to run more single-threaded applications.
Temperature wise, the new Ryzen chips don't seem to get too hot either, which is great news for everyone. Even under such a heavy overclock, the 2700X only hit 56 degrees celsius under load. While the cooler did get a little loud at that point, it could be that watercooling these CPUs will have a real benefit.
The new Ryzen refresh chips are built on a 12nm process and add a few hundred megahertz to the base and turbo clock speeds over their Ryzen predecessors. However, it appears that overclocking potential may have been improved too.
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