AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Hits 5.75GHz On Every Core In Early Overclock Leak

Over on Overclock.net, user OC_Beer posted what appear to be the first leaked overclocking results for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D. The chip isn't even on shelves yet, as AMD only announced it at CES 2026 less than two weeks ago, but if these images are real, someone out there is already pushing it past its limits—5748 MHz on all eight cores, comfortably above the CPU's advertised 5.6 GHz max boost.

The screenshots themselves tell the story. One is a simple HWMonitor readout showing a Ryzen 7 9850X3D sitting at 5748 MHz across all cores, with no obvious signs of trickery. The second appears to be a CPU‑Z benchmark run, showing a single‑threaded score of 908.6, which puts it ahead of all extant stock Zen 5 parts. That's not surprising given that the chip is ...