AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D It will be the first consumer CPU to feature 3D V-Cache memory, but the addition of the new technology means it will have to sacrifice some key features such as overclocking support.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU does not support overclocking due to voltage scaling

In an interview with HotardwerAMD Technical Marketing Director Robert Hallock has once again revealed some interesting details regarding the upcoming Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU. The delegate, answers a question for AMD hardware enthusiasts, Michel Simonicabout whether the chip will support overclocking or not, he replied that it will not, and for good reasons too.

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The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU will be the company’s first 3D V-Cache offering, and as such, it needs to be optimized in terms of voltages before it ships into the consumer segment. Robert stated that while the chips can reach 1.5-1.6V with overclocking, the 3D V-Cache stack on top of Zen 3 cores can only do 1.35V and is actually operating at the limit out of the box. If users try to exceed the size of the chip beyond this voltage curve, they can break the chip, hence the reason why CPU overclocking is not supported.

But even though the CPU doesn’t feature overclocking support, Memory and Infinity Cache (FCLK) overclocking will still be enabled and, as Robert stated, it provides more significant performance anyway versus the standard base overclocking.

Frequency matters, frequency matters but every processor, every game is always a series of trade-offs, throttling relief and in our architecture, when you’re in the four and a half to five gigahertz range, four or five is enough when you put a lot of memory on your head you know you’re no longer limited by frequencyyou are not giving away anything to target that frequency, move performance limiters or performance accelerators, or move elsewhere in the architecture So we can call back the frequency a little easier on the temps, making the cooling process easier and dropping a big extra block of cache on top Which is more transistor density, more thermal density, so that was a very easy tradeoff.

Robert Hallock (AMD Head of Technical Marketing) via PCWorld

Robert hints that they were quick to bring the Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU to the gaming market, so it’s possible that given enough time to mature, AMD could have future generations of 3D V-Cache chips that support overclocking just like any console. other central processing. The potentiometer also affects clocks reduced by 400MHz down to 3.4GHz and 4.5GHz compared to 3.8GHz and 4.7GHz in the non-3D segment.

She was there too Recent Reports AMD advises motherboard makers to remove overclocking features and 5800X3D CPU support from their products, but Robert stresses that the chip is “Hard Locked” for overclocking and there’s no way motherboard makers can bypass the restrictions and enable overclocking. But that also shouldn’t make you think that AMD is going the way of not overclocking future Ryzen Desktop CPUs. Robert says this is just a one-time thing and that they are committed to offering more CPUs enabled for overclocking in the future.

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