AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D may not support overclocking
Well, this is a first - and it’s got a lot of people talking
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The New Zen 3 CPU rehash is set to launch any month now, with rumours of it hitting the market as soon as March 2022. And like us, we’re sure you’re extremely excited to see what the Ryzen 7 5800X3D can do with its new 3D cache technology. AMD reported that it beats the 5900X and the 12900K in some scenarios, and that’s some serious power.
However, new claims are arising from a Twitter user Raichu that the 5800X3D may not support overclocking, PBO or Ryzen Master Utility. This would mark a huge change in direction for the company as it’s made pretty much every Ryzen CPU and the box it came in overclockable.
What is PBO?
PBO stands for Precision Boost Overdrive and is effectively an automatic all-core overclock. This improves performance drastically in multithreaded workloads such as gaming, rendering, or file compression. Every Ryzen CPU has supported it in some capacity, and to hear of a CPU this high-end to ditch support for it is just bizarre.
Ryzen 7 5800X3D: Specifications
As per AMD’s specifications, the 5800X3D doesn’t seem to support any overclocking functionality or the Ryzen Master Utility, for now. This means that the new Ryzen 7 5800X3D might not be able to stack up against heavily overclocked existing Zen 3 processors.
Why would AMD cut the 5800X3D overclocking support?
This could be a complication of the new 3D stacked L3 cache. This is an industry first and it’s very possible that AMD hasn’t ironed out all of the kinks when switching cache types. Or is there something else?
We’d like to speculate for a moment. AMD has already released stats stating that the 5800X3D outperforms the 5900X and the 12900K in some scenarios. If we assume that this chip is standard and not overclocked, then maybe AMD’s implementation of 3D cache is too good. So AMD had to kill the performance because of fears it was going to perform a little too well against its new Zen 4 CPUs.
Food for thought, but that’s just speculation of course. What do you think?
