AMD Ryzen Processor Achieves New Overclocking World Record; Worried Intel Now Incentivizing Loyal Customers To Stop AMD

New and soon to be released AMD Ryzen 7 1800X has managed to achieve a new Cinebench R15 world record in overclocking. The new CPU was pushed to its limits by professional overclockers during the Ryzen press announcement. The Zen processors once again confirmed a double-the-performance-per-price-point offer as compared with Intel. Now competition heavily favors the more powerful and cheaper alternative, worrying Intel which will most likely still stick to its current pricing. Instead, it will resort to other means to stop AMD in its tracks like incentivizing customers who purchase Intel chips through rebates and other promotions.

Recently, AMD held a Ryzen press event to officially unveil three processors, namely, the Ryzen 7 1800X, Ryzen 7 1700X and the Ryzen 7 1700 along with announcements regarding the upcoming GDC event. The event was opened to the members of the press and also professional overclockers to test Ryzen beyond its boundaries. One particular team was able to overclock the Ryzen 7 1800X to as fast as 5.2GHz with all active 8 cores even though the processor's boost speed is only at 4.0GHz.

The Cinebench R15, one of the most valuable performance test for processors, revealed a record-breaking performance of the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X. The Ryzen CPU managed a score of 2,449cb beating previous record of 2,410cb, Digital Trends reported. The core voltage of the processor reached as much as 1,875 volts while achieving a core speed of 5,201.07 MHz. Since the CPU is unlocked, overclockers can crank up speeds way beyond limits.

Team member Rodrigo Avelino disclosed that the team did not overclock the AMD Ryzen chip with just regular CPU coolers. They use liquid Nitrogen (LN2) instead and lots of voltage. The chip was able to reach a new world record with a pushed speed combined with a minus 200 Celsius temperature. Recently, another sibling the $389 Ryzen 7 1700X scored higher than the $1,000 Intel Core i7-5960X in a leaked Cinebench results.

With a powerful Zen architecture, AMD may finally penetrate the Intel-dominated CPU market if Intel plays nice. There have been reports of IT developers being approached by Intel representatives offering promotions and incentive rebates in exchange for remaining loyal to Intel products. This could be indicative of how Intel sees AMD potentially its biggest competitor this year and the years to come. AMD is actually worried as suggested in their financial reports, the Form 10-K, citing Intel may outspend and outflanked them once again as it did in 2000.

In 2001, AMD has filed a complaint with the European Commission accusing Intel of using shady tactics to stop consumers from using AMD chips. In 2009, the EC upheld AMD's complaint and Intel was fined $1.4 billion dollars, which was just loose change to the chips giant but was enough to propel AMD back to the CPU game according to PCGamesN. IT workers are now hoping that AMD will be given a chance to showcase its powerful AMD Ryzen processors, which are expected to perform even better in the wild and in people's PCs.