Wednesday, December 31st 2025
Colorful Breaks Ryzen 7 9800X3D Frequency World OC Record with 7335.45 MHz
Colorful has claimed the world OC record for frequency with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800 X3D on its iGame X870E Vulcan OC motherboard. According to the HWBot listing submitted by Hero, the CPU reached a 7335.48 MHz peak clock under liquid nitrogen cooling, beating out the previous record—7313.05 MHz—by just over 20 MHz. It's worth noting that this clock still does not come close to the top-scoring CPU overclock, which still belongs to the Intel Core i9-14900K, which scored 9130.33 MHz under liquid helium cooling.
It also bears pointing out that these frequency overclock records have very little to do with actual gaming overclocks or stability for daily use, since they largely measure single-core clocks, and often the configurations that are required to reach these clocks are far from standard—even ignoring the exotic cooling solutions. Regardless, they serve as a showcase for what is possible with modern silicon and specific motherboards, which is why Colorful has lauded the achievement.
Sources:
HWBot, Colorful on Bilibili
It also bears pointing out that these frequency overclock records have very little to do with actual gaming overclocks or stability for daily use, since they largely measure single-core clocks, and often the configurations that are required to reach these clocks are far from standard—even ignoring the exotic cooling solutions. Regardless, they serve as a showcase for what is possible with modern silicon and specific motherboards, which is why Colorful has lauded the achievement.
14 Comments on Colorful Breaks Ryzen 7 9800X3D Frequency World OC Record with 7335.45 MHz
Good for manufacturer epeen but little else.
Since this was done on one of their motherboards they can "Lay Claim" to it but in truth the CPU is what set the record - Not the board, but many that look won't think about that part of it.
When I was the very first to top 8.3GHz to do an actual benchmark instead of just for CPU-Z validation that was an acheivement, no doubt and is still among the top 5 fastest AMD chips period to get an actual benching result.
Bones`s 9 sec 141 ms score: SuperPi - 1M with aFX-8320
However:
Since that run was done it has been eclipsed in MHz for a benching result by Intel and a couple other AMD chips too.
The board I was using didn't set the record itself even though it made such a thing possible which is Colorful's angle here. They "Can" claim to have done it but in reality they didn't - They just made it possible to be done by what actually did it.
Bones is awesome, truly hardcore.
The "enthusiast" community are just gamers with nice hardware these days.
Like being the fastest formula one car on a drag race