Can you overclock the new Epyc CPUs?

[Quartz]

I'm looking at the low-end Epyc CPUs - e.g. the 7262 - and they seem price-competitive with Intel's desktop CPUs (e.g. the 9900) and I'm wondering if with their huge L3 caches they might be performance-competitive if overclocked.

Has anyone tried it?

 

[Quartz]

Even if they're unlocked - I think boosting to 3.4GHz max with a 155W TDP, you're not going to see any seriously competitive clock speeds out of one of these.

Why not?

But 8 cores seems low for that purpose.

8 cores is the low end. Probably for cases where the number of PCIe lanes is more important, like SANs.

 

[Quartz]

I don't know if you'd hit 4GHz all cores on the Epyc, +500MHz or 14%. But that's the 9900's all-core turbo. 5GHz single core.

I wouldn't expect the Epyc to achieve 5 GHz but it's the performance as a whole that interests me. And the Epyc CPUs have a massive L3 cache.