Tonight, the AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D processor will be officially unbanned and listed, and it is expected to challenge the i9-12900KS and regain the title of the strongest game processor again. It stacks 64MB 3D V-Cache cache, plus the original 4MB L2 cache and 64MB L3 cache, for a total of 100MB, and the official game performance is on average 15% higher than the Ryzen 9 5900X.
However, in order to maintain power consumption and heat generation, its frequency is reduced to only 3.4-4.5GHz, and it is locked in overclocking.
The official explanation for this is that the voltage can be increased to 1.45-1.5V when the Ryzen processor is overclocked, and the voltage range of the 3D V-Cache cache is only 1.3-1.35V, and then it will damage the hardware, so it cannot be manually increased, but the Infinity Fabric bus and memory frequency are not limited.
Interestingly, although AMD claims to have locked in overclocking at the hardware level, it seems to have been cracked.
A CPU-Z screenshot posted by hardware player Skatter Bencher shows that the frequency of the Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D has run to 4.82GHz, corresponding to the external frequency of 106MHz, the multiplier is 45.5x, and the core voltage is displayed as 1.306V, which is not beyond the range of 3D V-Cache.
The motherboard used was Asus's ROG C8E X570, and Asus's Voltage Suspension technology was specifically turned on to achieve successful overclocking.
