



AMD officially announced its Ryzen 9 3950X enthusiast-class processor last night, and it is the highest-performing chip to ever grace the AM4 socket . The Ryzen 9 3950X has a total of 16 cores (32 threads) with a base clock of 3.5GHz and a boost clock of 4.7GHz.

But of course, enthusiasts are never content with "stock" clocks and are always looking to boost performance even further. At AMD's E3 event, the chip company decided to push the Ryzen 9 3950X to 5GHz using LN2. AMD was able to maintain these speeds across all 16 cores at 1.608V. The processor was mounted on a MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE motherboard which was loaded with G.Skill Trident Z Royal DDR4 modules running at 4533MHz.

While these are impressive numbers, we'd like to see what the Ryzen 9 3950X can do on air, as LN2 just isn't feasible for most mainstream customers -- even those that can afford to drop some serious coin on the processor and a top-of-the line X570 motherboard. We should also note that AMD showed its latest 16-core beast beating Intel's Core i9-9960X (16 cores, 32 threads) in a number of benchmarks like Cinebench and Geekbench. However, Intel has questioned AMD's motives here, and is challenging the company to put up or shut up with respect to gaming performance.