With the powerful many multi-threaded AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X processors fresh out of the gates, there were bound to be some records broken in short order. No surprise then, that Asus has shared some spectacular Threadripper 3970X benchmarking feats, undertaken using AMD's currently fastest HEDT CPU, hoping to cross-promote its feature-packed motherboards.

In particular, Asus highlights the capabilities of the new ROG Zenith II Extreme TRX40 motherboard which was fitted with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X processor by several OC experts at an event in Taiwan today. This hardware combo scalped 11 important new world records including the highly prized first places in Geekbench multi-core, Cinebench, GPUPI, and wPrime.

Overclocker Category* Score** Jeong Soonho Geekbench 3 - Multi Core 185114 pts Jeong Soonho Cinebench - R15 10672 pts Jeong Soonho GPUPI for CPU - 1B 31.067 sec Mike Nees Geekbench 4 - Multi Core 62483 pts Mike Nees Cinebench - 2003 6184 pts Mike Nees GPUPI for CPU - 100M 2.874 sec Mike Nees GPUPI v3.3 - 1B 37.747 sec Mike Nees GPUPI v3.3 - 100M 2.838 sec Mike Nees 3DMark11 Physics 20074 pts Alexandru Nedelcu HWBot x265 Benchmark - 1080p 290.214 fps Robert Sannino wPrime - 1024m 14.154 sec

* All records are in the 32-core class of their category, ** Scores were tracked at 2019-11-26 07:00 GMT

Pondering over the table you can see Jeong Soonho, known on HWBot as 'safedisk', smashed three world records with his Threadripper 3970X, ROG Zenith II Extreme, a 1300W PSU, and a liquid nitrogen cooler from Kingpin Cooling. Meanwhile, Mike Nees (AKA 'keeph8n') grabbed six records with his custom cooled setup using G.Skill RAM. Alex@ro and rsannino achieved new record breaking scores too.

Asus says that the above table and stellar results from day one OC attempts shows that its ROG Zenith II Extreme is a great choice "to unleash the full force of the latest 3rd Generation Ryzen Threadripper processors". You can read more about this motherboard via its official product pages. In summary, it offers sixteen TDA21472 power stages with actively cooled heatsinks, plus the platform's class-leading PCIe 4.0 lane count spread across a selection of M.2 and expansion slots, while utilising the latest onboard controllers to fuel 10G Ethernet, USB 3.2 Gen 2 and Wi-Fi 6 - with an Aura Sync RGB cherry on top.