Gigabyte’s Overclocking Guide Shows Ryzen 9 3950X Overclocking Performance
Gigabyte has put an overclocking guide online for its X570 motherboards. For this, the manufacturer uses the Ryzen 9 3950X, which will be released in November. The guide includes overclocking results and benchmark performance.
Gigabyte lists in the guide a Ryzen 9 3950X running at a clock speed of 4.3GHz on all 16 cores with 1.41 volts. According to Gigabyte, this would be a stable overclock, while the CPU temperature is around 100 degrees Celsius after a Prime95 stress test of one hour. For this, the manufacturer uses a water cooling kit from EKWB, the EK-KIT P360. The X570 chipset achieved a temperature of 68 degrees Celsius during the stress test.
Gigabyte reports that the 3950X at 4.3GHz achieves a Cinebench R15 score of 4384 cb, while the CPU at factory speeds reaches 3932 cb. That’s a difference of 452 points, representing an increase of about 11.5 percent. To illustrate: the current record of the Ryzen 9 3900X with 12 cores is 4383 cb. The CPU ran at 5.5GHz. A 3900X at 4.3GHz averages about 3340 cb in Cinebench R15. The current top model from Intel, the Core i9-9980XE, achieves a Cinebench score of 3716 at standard clock speed in our tests.
Gigabyte’s Ryzen 9 3950X Performance and Temperatures
The manufacturer states that 4.3GHz on all cores will be the limit for many 3950X CPUs. This is comparable to the overclocking results of the Ryzen 9 3900X. HWBot reports an average overclock of 4.3GHz on all cores with water cooling. On air cooling, the average overclocking speed drops to 4.2GHz.
In May, a leaked Cinebench R15 benchmark of the 3950X at a clock speed of 4.25GHz. That information was posted on the Tech YES City YouTube channel. The chip achieved a score of 4346 cb at that speed, which is comparable to the results of Gigabyte. At the time, the chip ran at 1.52 volts. This was probably an early version of the 3950X. Such chips are not yet fully optimized.
AMD was initially supposed to release the 3950X in September, but this was later postponed to November. AMD will release the 3950X simultaneously with new, third-generation Threadripper CPUs.
The leaked Ryzen 9 3950X performance from May. Photos by Tech YES City via YouTube.