The SuperPi 32M benchmark is one of the more popular tools in the overclocking scene when it comes to setting new world records. In the course, the circle number is calculated to the xth decimal place; in the 32M benchmark this is 32 million. The South Korean overclocker SAFEDISK (Soon-Ho Jeong) has now set such a new record with the Intel Core i9-14900K and, so to speak, undercut a relevant time in passing: At exactly two minutes, 59 seconds and 919 milliseconds, the sound barrier is the first time of three minutes has been broken.
For the SuperPi world record, only four cores and threads (regularly: 24 cores and 32 threads) were activated in the processor mentioned. The motherboard was based on an Asus ROG Maximus Z790 APEX Encore, which allowed SAFEDISK to operate the CPU at 8,449.22 MHz with a voltage of 1.37 volts. Accordingly, liquid nitrogen (LN2) had to be used as cooling to keep Intel's flagship CPU away from dangerous temperatures. The main memory was 32 GiB DDR5-7800 RAM, two G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo were used as bars. These have also been upgraded – a screenshot of the Benchmate tool shows DDR5-9000+ (CL32-48-45-36-2T) timings.
Source: SAFEDISK Under 3 minutes: i9-14900K breaks new world record in the SuperPi 32M benchmark (1) The associated SuperPi 32M benchmark can be found as usual on the HWBot website. By the way, the previous leader comes from Germany: Extreme overclocker CENS recently set the 32M world record with a time of three minutes, one second and 156 milliseconds and was only beaten by 237 milliseconds. As wccftech explains, overclocking almost halved the time required for the 32M bench: Here, a “normal” Core i9-14900K was able to achieve a value of around 5 minutes and 45 seconds.