Chipmaker AMD is looking into a report from the GMP project about two Ryzen processors that failed during testing. Could too much math be to blame?

The GMP project, an open source precision arithmetic library, this week said it had "fried two Ryzen 9950X CPUs in a few months by running GMP tests."

GMP tests are computationally intensive, so sustained testing may have done thermal damage to the silicon. Images accompanying the post show visible discoloration, the apparent result of overheating.

One Ryzen 9950X based system failed in February. And in August, the replacement CPU failed too.

"Before this problem is fully understood, we must caution people against using GMP heavily on any Zen 5 processor," the project post explains.

"We suspect that GMP's extremely tight loops around MULX

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