Below are the temperatures for each of the CPUs – without any overclock applied. We’ve also compared to previously released AMD Ryzen chips as well as the former Kaby Lake, Broadwell-E and Skylake counterparts (which we’ve also benchmarked against on the subsequent pages too):
OVERCLOCKING
Our best achievement saw us reach 4.1GHz with the 2920X and 4.0GHz with the 2970WX – impressively up from the 3.5GHz and 3GHz base clocks. The 2970WX required more voltage medication compared to the 2920X – 1.32v vs 1.38v respectively.
In this review we’ve benchmarked both CPUs at stock and overclocked settings - giving you a good indication as to the benefits of using this sort of overclock in synthetic benchmarks and day-to-day tasks.