Intel's stock Raptor Lake chip will do 6GHz and overclock another 25%, if it keeps cool
6GHz at stock settings and top 8GHz when overclocked, according to slides shared during the company’s Tech Tour in Israel this week.
This would give Intel a clock-frequency lead — 300 MHz— over AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series CPUs, announced late last month, which top out at 5.7GHz. Though, we’ll note that frequency is only one measure of performance and instructions per clock and thermal headroom can play an equally important role in actual performance.
It’s also worth noting that AMD has a habit of underpromising and overdelivering with its Ryzen desktop CPUs. Ryzen 5000 processors routinely delivered 50-150MHz higher clocks than advertised. For example the Ryzen 9 5900X claimed a 4.8GHz single-core boost clock, but actually delivered closer to 4.95GHz under stock settings. If the same ends up being true for Ryzen 7000, Intel's frequency lead may end up being narrower than the appear.
As for Intel’s claims of an 8GHz “world record” overclock, it’s not clear what measures are required to achieve such a frequency. However, exotic cooling is likely. At Intel’s 12th-gen launch event last year, the company attempted to overclock the chips using liquid nitrogen, only for the system to
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