Asus has outdone Intel’s Core i9 13900K, breaking the 9GHz barrier for the first time. To be more exact, the computer booted up to 9,008MHz on the desktop.
This has been proclaimed as a new world record by Asus and Intel.
Liquid Helium
In order to reach this goal, the Asus overclocking team had to make the switch from liquid nitrogen to liquid helium. They had previously achieved 8.8GHz using nitrogen.
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Advantage
Of course, the advantage of using helium is that it allows for even lower temperatures. According to Asus, temperatures were reduced from minus 196°C with liquid nitrogen to minus 269°C with helium.
Interestingly, the temperature is only four degrees higher than absolute zero at -273.15°C, which is a very cold temperature.
9GHz Chips
9GHz is an astonishing figure and something that we likely won’t see in consumer-grade processors when set to their stock clocks, if ever.
Intel is planning to launch the i9 13900KS, a new 6GHz variant of the 13900K, likely during CES in January. However, don’t get your hopes up for a 9GHz chip.
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Pentium 4 Netburst Architecture
Considering this overclocking feat by Asus, it does make us consider the potential of clock speed in relation to performance. In 2000, Intel predicted that its then-new Pentium 4 Netburst architecture would be able to reach 10GHz by 2005.
Though it’s not even close to being true, as the process node shrinks become increasingly more difficult and costly and adding transistors is not an effective way of enhancing performance, clock speed as the primary approach for increasing performance may return.
Clocks
Naturally, process shrinks and frequency jumps are interrelated, so attempting to further increase clock speeds without die shrinks wouldn’t work.
Hence, we should hope Intel’s prediction that Moore’s Law will continue to produce trillion transistor chips by 2030 is accurate.
