AMD confirms that Ryzen 7000 running to 5.5GHz is not overclocking
AMD publicly exhibited the Zen 4 architecture Ryzen 7000 series processors at the Taipei Computer Show. There is a game display of Ghostwire: Tokyo, in which we can see from the screen HUD that the operating clock of the processor at that time is above 5GHz, and the highest can reach 5.5GHz. It is estimated that many people are concerned about the environment in which this processor reaches this clock.
AMD’s Robert Hallock and Frank Azor participated in an interview with PCWorld, they revealed that the Demo was running on an engineering sample of a 16-bit Zen 4 processor. The CPU itself was not specially selected and did not use any special cooling technology. A 280mm Asetek integrated water cooling is used, and the memory is 2*16GB DDR5-6000 CL30. Ryzen 7000 processor is not overclocked, it just works at a normal clock, most threads are over 5GHz, and there are many fluctuations between 5.2GHz and 5.5GHz, of course, the actual clock depends on the game.
In addition, Hallock confirmed that the 170W they said on the slide in the presentation refers to the PPT socket power, not the TDP of a single CPU. The main reason for increasing the power of the AM5 socket is that they increase the multi-core clock, of course, higher PPT means higher TDP, which makes the Ryzen 7000 processor run at such a high clock.
