raptor lake ASUS Breaks Overclocking World Record with Intel 13th Gen Core i9-13900K by Reaching Blazing 9 GHz Frequency

[BiG StroOnZ]

Summary

Jon “Elmor” Sandström and the rest of the overclocking team at ASUS has successfully taken a 13900K over 9GHz, breaking the world record for CPU clock speeds. This is the first time a CPU has been able to break the 9GHz barrier.

 

 

 

 

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This was achieved with ASUS Z790 ROG APEX motherboard with improved signaling and VRMs for extreme overclocking. ASUS is now claiming that at least 14 world records were broken with Z790 APEX motherboard thus far.

 

ASUS' team disabled all of the Core i9-13900K's E-cores and disabled hyperthreading, limiting the CPU to only the 8 P-cores and 8 threads.

 

To break this world record Elmor was joined by SkatterBencher, who confirms that the CPU temperature was as low as -250.2°C. 

 

The official clock speed world record reported was 9008.82 MHz. 

 

The liquid helium supply was also copious enough to allow the ASUS OC team to achieve new records in PiFast (6.85 seconds) and SuperPi 1M (3.822 seconds). However, these runs weren’t completed at a CPU clock of >9GHz. Overclocker SafeDisk achieved his PiFast record with the 13900K running at a still formidable 8.44GHz.

 

My thoughts

To think that for 8 years AMD held the frequency title with the FX-8370 @ 8.7GHz (achieved back in 2014). In October that title was taken by the 13900k @ 8.81GHz by the same overclocker who broke this record. It should be noted that for this 9GHz run Liquid Helium was used over Liquid Nitrogen. As Liquid Helium's boiling point is -270°C / -452°F while Liquid Nitrogen has a boiling point of -196°C / -320°F. Therefore, Liquid Helium is the better choice for XOC, but it's a lot more costly. This seems to be the reason why the overclocking team was much more successful this time and is likely the key to their success. I expect when the 13900KS launches that more records will be broken, as the KS is binned and clocked to 6GHz out of the box. When Intel starts sampling these CPUs, handing out golden samples, I wonder what overclocking records will be broken next. 

 

Sources

https://www.techpowerup.com/302432/13th-gen-intel-core-platform-crosses-9-ghz-in-overclocking-frequency-world-record

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asus-team-tweaks-intel-13th-gen-raptor-lake-core-i9-cpu-to-a-staggering-9ghz.html

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/341737-asus-breaks-world-record-by-overclocking-core-i9-13900k-to-over-9ghz

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-i9-13900k-cpu-has-been-overclocked-past-9-ghz

https://hothardware.com/news/intel-core-i9-13900k-breaks-9ghz-record

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-world-record-9ghz-13900k

https://hwbot.org/submission/5148862_

[RONOTHAN##]

7 minutes ago, BiG StroOnZ said:

I expect when the 13900KS launches that more records will be broken, as the KS is binned and clocked to 6GHz out of the box

Not necessarily. A lot of Raptor Lake CPUs have a cold bug on them somewhere in the temp range (IIRC 100-140C is the most common, though there are a couple chips that can run full pot LN2), so the fact that this 13900K was able to boot at LHe temps is impressive, not just the fact that it can validate 9GHz. Unless Intel is going to be binning those CPUs for cold bug performance, I'd be surprised if we get a ton of 9GHz validations once the 13900KS is released, there's just so much that has to go into getting this good of a chip besides core quality. 

 

Still, congrats to Elmor and ASUS ROG for breaking this 10 y/o world record and finally cracking the 9GHz barrier. Next stop, 10GHz. 

[BiG StroOnZ]

7 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Not necessarily. A lot of Raptor Lake CPUs have a cold bug on them somewhere in the temp range (IIRC 100-140C is the most common, though there are a couple chips that can run full pot LN2), so the fact that this 13900K was able to boot at LHe temps is impressive, not just the fact that it can validate 9GHz. Unless Intel is going to be binning those CPUs for cold bug performance, I'd be surprised if we get a ton of 9GHz validations once the 13900KS is released, there's just so much that has to go into getting this good of a chip besides core quality. 

 

I'm thinking more in line of records being broken by actually being able to run some benchmarks (like how they were able to run PiFast and SuperPi here).

 

I could be wrong though. 

[Salv8 (sam)]

finally, i can run crysis.

[RONOTHAN##]

17 minutes ago, BiG StroOnZ said:

 

I'm thinking more in line of records being broken by actually being able to run some benchmarks (like how they were able to run PiFast and SuperPi here).

 

I could be wrong though. 

Those might be possible, though I doubt we'll be seeing a ton of LHe scores with the 13900KS, the amount of leg work put into those scores is insane. 

 

Still, I'm glad xoc is starting to make a bit of a renessance with the Raptor lake chips, it's always fun seeing these records broken, including the ones that have stood for so long. 

[Fasterthannothing]

Holy crap! 9GHz absolutely absurd Intel is making a  serious comeback in the CPU world.

[leadeater]

Really nobody yet.. fine