Do Ryzen chips actually degrade at high voltages?

[Grim5]

I haven't heard much from people on this recently, but for quite some time people kept saying you shouldn't overclock ryzen because it will degrade.

well as it turns out, it doesn't really have an issue even with 1.4+ volts

 

[eddiew]

Interesting... I never quite forgave my 1600X for the 1.6v spikes it would show in logs. Would have been interested to know how that generation would have fared in this test. Or if they are still going now ¬_¬

 

[Joxeon]

My old ryzen 5 3600 degraded slightly as it was originally set to 1.325v @4.2 but after a year or so it needed 1.35v but then it could be down to bios changes I guess.

 

[tommoT.Striker]

Interesting video, I remember him starting it off so good to see the results.
Only one 5600X had to up its voltage by a small margin after running 1.45v 24/7 with a big load, so not a problem.

After playing with OCs on my Ryzen machines over time, just got used to leaving them at stock and not worrying about it. Let the Ryzen voltage algorithm do its thing.

 

[humbug]

CPU degradation is nothing to do with voltage alone.

People need to stop comparing AMD chips to Intel's chips with this.

1.4v at 75 Amps = 105 Watts
1.3v at 190 Amps = 247 Watts

Now you know the difference between Intel and AMD.