Liquid nitrogen overclocking enthusiast SkatterBencher recently conducted an interesting test, overclocking a Ryzen 7 9700X to an impressive 6.3GHz. This endeavor actually surpassed the performance of a Core i9-14900KF overclocked to 7.1GHz in the OCCT test.

He employed a combination of BCLK external overclocking, PBO, Curve Optimizer, Curve Shaper, and additional techniques, ultimately achieving 6332.4MHz on the Ryzen 7 9700X. This setup included an external clock of 110MHz, a 57.56x multiplier, and the activation of all cores, although multithreading was disabled.

Running at 6318.48MHz, the OCCT single-threaded AVX test garnered a score of 269.35 points, setting a new world record.

In comparison, the i9-14900KF, overclocked to 7.1GHz, 800MHz higher, managed to score only 255.42 points, falling behind by almost 14 points.

As observed, this test heavily relies on AVX instructions. Interestingly, Intel no longer supports its once superior AVX-512, whereas AMD's support continues to improve. The upcoming Zen5 architecture is expected to fully support the 512-bit width, a promising advancement for AMD enthusiasts.

However, in the SSE test, the Ryzen 7 9700X scored 127.79 points, trailing the i9-14900KF by 8.76 points.

In other tests, CPU-Z set a new 12-month record with 1003 single-threaded points and 10805 multi-threaded points.

In GeekBench, the scores were 3902 for single-threaded and 21135 for multi-threaded tests.