AMD's upcoming flagship desktop processor, the Ryzen 9 9950X, supports Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) overclocking. In the comments section of our Zen 5 Technical Deep Dive article , a keen-eyed user noticed a footnote in one of the slides that reads that PBO is supported on Ryzen 9000 series desktop processor with the parenthesis "excluding the 9950." Add to this, the company's presentation slide for PBO on Ryzen 9000 series only highlights performance gains for the Ryzen 9 9900X, the Ryzen 7 9700X, and the Ryzen 5 9600X, but not the 9950X. We reached out to AMD seeking a clarification on this.

AMD got back to us and confirmed that the Ryzen 9 9950X does indeed support PBO overclocking: "Confirmed that PBO is supported with 9950X", just like the 9900X, 9700X, and the 9600X, and that there is an "Error in the footnotes." It would be highly unusual for AMD to disable PBO on a specific SKU, especially considering that all non-APU Ryzen processors in the past have supported PBO, not just some special overclocking SKUs, like the "K" models on Intel.