The famous overclocking enthusiast Allen ‘Splave’ Golibersuch overclocked the Core i9-13900K processor to 8.2GHz under the cooling blessing of liquid nitrogen (LN2) in the finals of the Intel Creator Challenge. This 13th-generation Core desktop flagship processor will go on sale on October 20.
The Core i9-13900K is a 24-core processor with 8 P-core and 16 E-core. Thanks to Intel’s “Thermal Velocity Boost” (TVB) technology, the chip is capable of a maximum core frequency of 5.8 GHz. Splave overclocks the Core i9-13900K to 8.2 GHz, a 41% increase over Intel’s official acceleration frequency.
The Core i9-13900K shows tremendous overclocking potential, compared to the previous generation Core i9-12900K which only reached 7.6 GHz, the Core i9-13900K breaks the record of the Core i9-12900K by 8%.
AMD’s Zen 4 processors also have strong overclocking capabilities. For example, the single-core frequency of the Ryzen 9 7950X was recently overclocked to up to 7.2 GHz, and the frequency of all cores was up to 6.5 GHz. However, according to HWBot, 7.4 GHz (7,471.96 MHz) is the highest value reached by the Ryzen 9 7950X. As a result, the Core i9-13900K clocks in about 11% higher than the Ryzen 9 7950X.
Whether the 13th generation Core processor can continue to dominate the overclocking rankings will be worthy of attention. AMD’s outdated FX-series chips are known for their super-overclocking abilities, and the FX-8370 still holds the record for top overclocking at 8.7 GHz (8722.78 MHz), a feat from 2014.
While Intel and AMD continue to compete with each other in the overclocking game, consumers care more about out-of-the-box performance.
