AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D lacks overclocking support - Retail Pricing Leaked

[WYP]

AMD's new flagship gaming CPU lacks overclocking support.



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[Dark NighT]

I don't think this is in general a big issue because for most people on the mainstream, the algorithm can do a much better job of boosting and maintaining clocks based on temperature and doing a all core overclock just removes that feature, as for professional overclockers, they probably just skip this or find a workaround.

 

[NeverBackDown]

They pretty much always have custom BIOS's flashed when doing their pro overclock events. So to them they don't even care.

I'm curious to know if it's a limitation on the infinity fabric with the added 3D cache. If that adds more strain or increasing the fabric speed negatively harms cache performance with their current vertical design

 

[AlienALX]

I would imagine it is the cache itself. It's never ever been a good idea to overclock cache, as it's the most likely way you can ever kill a CPU.

I know it's not related, but look at how "well" (yes I am being sarcastic) HBM overclocks. It was terrible.

Because everything seems to be tied to the IF clock on Ryzen it could simply be that overclocking the cache would kill the CPU.

This is also going to be more of a problem the more things shrink down. And is also why Ryzen clock speeds were always a bit poo compared to Intel, and why it took Intel so damn long to shrink their CPUs *with* decent clock speeds.