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AMD A10-6800K Overclocked To 8.2 GHz, Breaks And Sets World Record

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humbug said:
I thought the world record was held by the FX-8350 @ 8.67Ghz?

None the less the 6800K is an interesting chip, 5Ghz on all cores seems to be fairly conmen on them and yet the 5800K would struggle to get to 4.6Ghz.
Something is different about them.
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Well it could just be higher binned cores.
But I'm pretty sure Richland has always been billed as PD 2.0.
 
I got my 6800K to 4.8GHz on all cores with a £20 cooler and a tiny bump in voltage. Never tried any higher as I think Piledriver/Richland tops out around there in terms of heat/power vs performance.
 
In with the obligatory wonder what fps it gets in crysis comment...

Though, tbh I would be interested if the gpu is even usable at that level of overclock.
 
It should be all right. The GPU has its own clock and isn't tied to the CPU clock. I think the best you'd expect from the GPU side though is a slightly overclocked 6670.
 
Impressive. There is definitely some secret sauce in Richland. The power savings made at low idle are pretty impressive VS Trinity too
 
Not sure why people are still fascinated by GHz numbers (can't see any actual data crunching numbers?) there were old Celeron chips around the Pentium D era that could manage stupidly high GHz numbers but were rubbish for actual performance.
 
Rroff said:
Not sure why people are still fascinated by GHz numbers (can't see any actual data crunching numbers?) there were old Celeron chips around the Pentium D era that could manage stupidly high GHz numbers but were rubbish for actual performance.
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Overclocking potential, its an enthusiast thing.... a good thing when they keep pushing for higher and higher clocks.

Its quite tempting just to get a cheap Athlon 760K <- Richland, and see how far over 5Ghz i can get it to run with some water cooling.

Whatever this 'secret sauce' is it may make the FX Steamroller CPU's interesting
 
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The APUs aren't the strongest CPUs (the lack of cache hits them quite hard), but they're pretty good performers when all four cores are going. In a lot of multi-threaded CPU intensive apps the 6800K at stock performs roughly about half the speed of a 4770K.
 
Rroff said:
Not sure why people are still fascinated by GHz numbers (can't see any actual data crunching numbers?) there were old Celeron chips around the Pentium D era that could manage stupidly high GHz numbers but were rubbish for actual performance.
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I remember those, iirc I had a pentium d 802, 20x multi gave you an easy route to 4ghz+ yet still sank without trace up against the top c2d's :p
 
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