AMD 7Ghz? This keeps popping up on my feeds!

[ShrimpBrime]

Let's discuss AMD Olympic Ridge.

7Ghz is a tall number to reach. I know. I've reached it. This requires, 100% of the time DRY-ICE cooling (or colder LN2 ect). Which requires use of Acetone, and now it's dangerous to reach 7ghz. Acetone, is the medium you need to transfer thermals between dry-ice and copper ftw, like thermal paste if you will. So even targeting 6.4ghz, is rather difficult. None of these speeds are ambient possible at this time. And never was. I'm am 100% deeply interested in Olympic Ridge and huge clocks on an air cooler.

So is it real?? Leak Links --->

A new 7GHz AMD Ryzen gaming CPU is reportedly in the works

If the clock speed of AMD Ryzen Zen 6 chips exceeds 7GHz as the latest rumor claims, AMD will have the fastest off-the-shelf CPU in history.

www.pcgamesn.com

https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd-7-ghz-zen-6-clock-speed-target-confirmed-leaker-claims/

 

[freeagent]

9 series is hitting close to or above 6GHz with just PBO, crazy days man. 7Ghz.. should be interesting! That would be a massive gen over gen bump..

 

[ShrimpBrime]

9 series is hitting close to or above 6GHz with just PBO, crazy days man. 7Ghz.. should be interesting! That would be a massive gen over gen bump..

Yeah, 14900K hits 6ghz right from the box. 2 thread boost. That's not close to 7ghz. TVB will get you +2 6.2ghz, 5.8ghz all core.
But 7ghz, even for core reduction is extremely difficult. I mean even if you said -35c water Delta, 7ghz isn't possible.

 

[DaemonForce]

7 billion cycles...JFC man.
When I was a smol and getting started in overclocking I was chasing a few MHz on a Pentium from 233 to 262.
Switched up to a K6-2 and picked up my first triple digit boost from 300 to 400.
Wasn't until I built a system with the Pentium 4 3.00E that I got into the GHz range and felt comfortable.
The FX-8000 felt like it had way more to share with the jump to 4GHz and upwards of 4.5 on a cheap board.
FX-9000 boasted 5GHz out of box but was a space heater that I rightly avoided. Now we're dipping 7GHz?

What is driving all of this? It isn't gaming or production. 7GHz sounds like a craft from a post-silicon world.
Are there some historic overclockers designing chips?

 

[Frick]

A 6.2Ghz octocore Zen 6 10600 for €250 would be nice...

 

[ShrimpBrime]

A 6.2Ghz octocore Zen 6 10600 for €250 would be nice...

I was reading as high as 6.4ghz!!

 

[AnotherReader]

7 GHz is very unlikely. Take Arrow Lake as an example; despite using the newest TSMC node, it lost clock speed vs Raptor Lake.

 

[Visible Noise]

Wishful thinking. All aboard the hype train.

Edit: Oh, it’s sourced from MLID. Enough said LOL.

 

[Macro Device]

I don't care about clocks. I only care how much stuff can a CPU do considering its price, wattage, reliability, and some other things such as platform advantages, cooling philosophy etc.

This is just a single number of a very large set of things, some of which can't even be quantified. Frequency without IPC is just nothing. Imagine you're saying you're 12 tall. 12 what?

 

[JohH]

The majority of their products (Venice, Medusa) will run at much lower frequencies. Why design a cache that can operate in 4 cycles at 7GHz when it's going to be operating at ≤5GHz for your real money-maker products?

I very much doubt they're targeting 7GHz as a result.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I see, the hype train is back in the station. Time for another round of claims, ranging from extraordinary GHz rates to OMFG THE NEXT INTEL/NVIDIA KILLER!!! come about just about every single release cycle, without result.

No.

 

[Frick]

I was reading as high as 6.4ghz!!

Rumors say 7Ghz is the "middle ground", as in they are shooting for higher than 7Ghz, and 6.4Ghz is the lower range, so the non-X models would be lower than that.

I don't care about clocks. I only care how much stuff can a CPU do considering its price, wattage, reliability, and some other things such as platform advantages, cooling philosophy etc.

This is just a single number of a very large set of things, some of which can't even be quantified. Frequency without IPC is just nothing. Imagine you're saying you're 12 tall. 12 what?

This is a very strange thing to say. A straight 20% increase of performance would be "nothing"?

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

OMFG THE NEXT INTEL/NVIDIA KILLER!!!

Intel kills itself

 

[ShrimpBrime]

The majority of their products (Venice, Medusa) will run at much lower frequencies. Why design a cache that can operate in 4 cycles at 7GHz when it's going to be operating at ≤5GHz for your real money-maker products?

I very much doubt they're targeting 7GHz as a result.

Ah but the leak is from a supposed "reliable source " whom has been fairly accurate in the past.

5ghz was AMDs FX 9590 release, 1st 5ghz boxed cpu. But it didn't amount to good IPC, and thats sort of a fear I have for claiming 7ghz. Sure, might hit that speed at 4 cycles, but doesnt mean the IPC is there to back it.

 

[Macro Device]

A straight 20% increase of performance would be "nothing"?

How do I know it adds 20% performance if I only know it's clocked 20% higher? NetBurst anyone?

 

[freeagent]

Progress has been impressive. My 5900X tuned will run Linpack Xtreme at 4550MHz. My 9900X runs the same load at 5350MHz, with over 200GFlops between the two of them.

 

[Darkholm]

Personally would be rather insterested in core/IPC/cache bump than those massive clock uplifts.
Think 5.7-6.2 GHz is more than enough for everything. R7 x700 12c/24t single ccd and its x800X3D V-cache brother would be very nice to see and also R9s x900 with 16c/32t and x950 24c/48t. It is time for core/ipc bumps, not clocks.

 

[Frick]

How do I know it adds 20% performance if I only know it's clocked 20% higher? NetBurst anyone?

It's the same arch. A 3 Ghz Netburst Pentium 4 is faster than a 2.4Ghz Netburst Pentium 4.

 

[RaceT3ch]

I hope it isn't trying to be the FX series, where there's a stupid clock speed but not enough IPC.

Edit: I think they're just gonna reach 6GHZ, not that big of a jump, unless they use 1nm or lower (Which doesn't exist yet right?)

 

[Dr. Dro]

I hope it isn't trying to be the FX series, where there's a stupid clock speed but not enough IPC.

Edit: I think they're just gonna reach 6GHZ, not that big of a jump, unless they use 1nm or lower (Which doesn't exist yet right?)

1 nm class is technically stuff like Intel 18A process (1.8 nm), it's coming soon(ish).

6 GHz for the flagship parts is probably doable, provided N3 scales well

 

[erocker]

Overly optimistic rumors go hand in hand with an AMD launch.

 

[Visible Noise]

Overly optimistic rumors go hand in hand with an AMD launch.

Which is still a year and a half away.

 

[RaceT3ch]

1 nm class is technically stuff like Intel 18A process (1.8 nm), it's coming soon(ish).

I'd consider 18A 2nm, but would AMD even use Intel fabrication?

 

[freeagent]

Just saying.. the lowly 9900X hits 5850 with PBO, 9950X is hitting 6GHz with PBO, 7GHz seems a bit of a stretch, but you never know..

 

[RaceT3ch]

Just saying.. the lowly 9900X hits 5850 with PBO, 9950X is hitting 6GHz with PBO, 7GHz seems a bit of a stretch, but you never know..

Well if that's the case, I'd expect 6.5 at most for Zen 6