Intel Creator Challenge: Raptor Lake-S reaches up to 8.2 GHz with LN2

A Core i9-13900KF engineering sample cooled with liquid nitrogen (LN2) was able to achieve a very high clock rate. In the final of the OC competition organized as part of the Intel Creator Challenge, the CPU development sample was finally able to run with up to 8200 MHz on one core.

One of the most frequently clocked CPUs in history

With a late engineering sample (IT’S) of an Intel Core i9-13900KF, professional extreme overclocker Allen “Splave” Golibersuch managed to achieve the highest clock frequency ever achieved with an Intel CPU during the Intel-initiated OC competition finals. The documented 8.2 GHz can also be found way up in the world rankings. Overclocker “The Stilt” has held the CPU OC world record since 2014, with an AMD FX-8370 (test) and over 8.7GHz.

Record drops to -196°C

The development sample processor achieved the following values ​​in the presence of Louis Draghi, an engineer and overclocking expert at Intel:

• 8.2 GHz clock rate @ P-Core 4
• With an operating voltage of 1,824 volts
• Achieved with a bus clock of 100 MHz and a multiplier of × 82.0
• Under normal pressure at 77K (- 196 °Celsius) with liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooled
• Over 41 percent overclock based on stock 5.8 GHz*

*) with Intel Thermal Velocity Boost (TVB)

While the Core i 13000 series on Z790 motherboards is positioned against AMD Ryzen 7000 (test) for October 20, Intel Raptor Lake wins the overclocking duel with AMD Raphael in advance, who in this discipline could “only” up to 7.2 GHz. The previous generation (“Alder Lake”), which reached clock rates of 7.6 GHz, was also clearly outperformed.

Intel introduces overclocking and case modding

The manufacturer himself posted a 6-hour video on the official YouTube channel intelligence games. There is also a case and system modding competition where four teams compete against each other and each has to build a system based on a Z790 motherboard and an i9-13900K.