My air (noctua) cooled 7900X sustains 12 cores at 5200MHz reliably, but it's honestly hard to find that much saturation, most tasks can run better with 8 cores sustaining about 5400, or 4 cores sustaining about 5500.
With better cooling I'd be surprised if I couldn't sustain 5400 on all 12 cores.
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5 GHz in off the shelf SKUs was passed years ago.
Key word is reliably. I don't think we're quite at the stage where the average cpu can sustain 5ghz, especially for longer periods of time?
My air (noctua) cooled 7900X sustains 12 cores at 5200MHz reliably, but it's honestly hard to find that much saturation, most tasks can run better with 8 cores sustaining about 5400, or 4 cores sustaining about 5500.
With better cooling I'd be surprised if I couldn't sustain 5400 on all 12 cores.
That CPU came out in Q4 2022 and costs $399 today.