AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X has achieved a new record for Zen 5 overclocking, being pushed to 7 GHz by Indonesian overclocker, Lucky_Noob.

During AMD's Tech Day, the company hosted an LN2 overclocking session where the flagship Zen 5 chip, the Ryzen 9 9950X, was overclocked to 6.6 GHz across all 16 cores. Now, the most entry-level chip in the lineup, the Ryzen 5 9600X, has broken the Zen 5 overclocking record & pushed to an OC speed of 7 GHz.

The overclocking achievement comes from Alva Jonathan aka Lucky Noob who used the MSI MEG X670E ACE motherboard to reach the 7 GHz clock speed using LN2 cooling (validation here). All of the 6 CPU cores were set to an x70 multiplier with the reference bus speed of 100 MHz. The setup also featured a pair of 32 GB DDR5 memory.

With this overclock, the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X "Zen 5" CPU now sits as the fastest 6-core chip in Cinebench 2024 multi-core and Y-Cruncher PI-BBP-10B benchmarks. ASUS's in-house overclocked, SAFEDISK, also set two new records for the Ryzen 5 9600X, claiming top spots in the X265 1080P & 4K benchmarks. Following are the world records achieved by the chips and their respective Hwbot links:

This is just the start of Zen 5's overclocking spree. The AMD Ryzen CPUs have yet to break past the 8 GHz barrier but 7 GHz is a decent LN2 showcase for the Zen 5 chips. We can expect higher clocks once more professional overclockers post their results. The AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs peaked at 6350 MHz while the AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs peaked at 7471 MHz. The Ryzen 9 9950X & the Ryzen 9 9900X launch next week so we look forward to more records achieved using the Zen 5 architecture.