Yesterday witnessed the official reveal of AMD’s exciting new Ryzen processors – which finally make octo-core CPUs affordable to a mainstream audience – and already the flagship model has broken a world record for performance in Cinebench.
Mind you, some ridiculous cooling was needed in the quest to push the Ryzen 7 1800X processor up to 5.2GHz on all eight of its cores, with the voltage cranked to 1.875v, and liquid nitrogen being used to achieve a temperature of around -200 degrees Celsius.
As Wccftech reports, this allowed the gleeful overclockers in question to hit a score of 2,449 in Cinebench R15’s multi-threaded tests, beating the previous all-time record, although admittedly not by that much (39 points).
