Nvidia's RTX 4090 was overclocked to a pretty staggering 3,7 GHz and unsurprisingly, when that much was cranked, the GPU broke new world records.
VideoCardz (opens in a new tab) picked this up, reporting that the Team OGS overclocking team took the Galax RTX 4090 HOF, the graphics card we talked about yesterday that has two 16-pin power connectors, allowing it to be increased to 1000 W. and cooled it with liquid nitrogen to reach 3705 MHz (3,705 GHz) in the GPUPI benchmark.
OGS reached #13 in the rankings for GPUPI, but was the fastest result for a single GPU – overclockers ahead of the RTX 4090 used multiple graphics cards (eight RTX 3090 GPUs in the case of first place – yes, ocho).
Now GPUPI doesn't require much graphics. It's actually a computational test (calculating Pi to the nth degree with a GPU as the name suggests), but the RTX 4090 also scored a world record in 3DMark Port Royal, where clock speeds weren't that fast (because it's a plus). intensive reference point).
However, OGS still hit 3570 MHz on liquid nitrogen to get 31, enough to claim fifth place in the all-time rankings, but again, the RTX 096 was the best-performing single-player GPU: the RTX achieved the four highest scores. Twin 4090 graphics cards.
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That's impressive, with the Galax RTX 4090 HOF beating the other RTX 4090 card at the top of the charts here (a colorful model from China, also liquid nitrogen cooled) by just over 1,000 points.
And in the future, we can only hope for greater feats to be accomplished and more records to be broken, as always happens when overclockers have more time to play with a GPU (or CPU) and push it even harder. In fact, we'll likely see other overclockers using the Galax HOF ("Hall Of Fame") RTX 4090 soon enough, as we know Norwegian overclocker Rauf has one (hence yesterday's leaked photos).
Galax HOF graphics cards have been around for a while (since Nvidia's 900 series, in fact). They're specifically designed to be used in extreme overclocking scenarios and with ridiculous power ratings like 1000W or more (we don't really know what the power draw was during those record attempts, because it doesn't tell us, but you can bet it was pretty heavy ). These are not cards intended for consumer purchase, as the HOF models are expensive and produced in limited numbers for this niche overclocking audience.
Back in the real world, consumers wealthy enough to afford an RTX 4090 for their PC are still concerned about power consumption and reported melted cable incidents, and we're waiting to hear from Nvidia about it.
Meanwhile, later today, we can look forward to the launch of AMD's RDNA 3 flagship and see how it stacks up against Lovelace, Nvidia's top dog, with power efficiency expected to be much better for Team Red. How the overall performance and relative price will stack up will of course also be key factors.
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