Nvidia’s RTX 4090 has been overclocked to a slightly staggering 3.7GHz and as you may anticipate, when ramped up that far, the GPU claimed some new world data.

VideoCardz (opens in new tab) picked up on this one, reporting that overclocking outfit Group OGS took the Galax RTX 4090 HOF – the graphics card we wrote about yesterday that has two 16-pin energy connectors, enabling it to be cranked to 1000W – and cooled it with liquid nitrogen to succeed in 3705MHz (3.705GHz) within the GPUPI benchmark.

OGS achieved 13th place within the rankings for GPUPI, however was the quickest consequence for a single GPU – the overclockers forward of the RTX 4090 used a number of graphics playing cards (eight RTX 3090 GPUs within the case of the highest spot – sure, eight).

Now, GPUPI just isn’t a graphically intensive benchmark. In reality, it’s a compute take a look at (calculating Pi to the nth diploma with a GPU because the identify implies), however the RTX 4090 additionally grabbed a world report in 3DMark Port Royal, the place clock speeds weren’t fairly as quick (because it’s a extra intensive benchmark).

OGS nonetheless hit 3570MHz with liquid nitrogen, although, to attain 31,096, sufficient to say fifth place within the all-time rankings, however once more the RTX 4090 was the highest performing solo GPU – the 4 higher scores have been achieved by twin RTX 3090 graphics playing cards.

Evaluation: Larger issues to return, little doubt

That is spectacular stuff, with the Galax RTX 4090 HOF beating out the opposite RTX 4090 card within the prime rankings right here (a Colourful mannequin from China, additionally cooled by liquid nitrogen) by simply over 1,000 factors.

And going ahead, we are able to solely anticipate that larger feats will probably be achieved, and extra data will fall, as is all the time the case when overclockers get extra time to play with a GPU (or CPU) and push it even more durable. Certainly, we’ll seemingly see different overclockers utilizing the Galax HOF (‘Corridor Of Fame’) RTX 4090 quickly sufficient, as we all know that Norwegian overclocker Rauf has obtained one (that’s the place these leaked pics got here from yesterday).

The HOF graphics playing cards from Galax have been round for fairly a while (since Nvidia’s 900 collection, in actual fact). They’re particularly designed for use in excessive overclocking situations, and with ridiculous wattages, like 1000W or extra (we don’t truly know what the facility utilization was in these report makes an attempt, as we’re not informed, however you’ll be able to guess it was critically hefty). They’re not playing cards supposed to be purchased by shoppers, with HOF fashions being expensive and produced in restricted numbers for that area of interest overclocking viewers.

Again in the true world, shoppers who’re well-off sufficient to afford an RTX 4090 for his or her PC are nonetheless nervous about energy consumption and reported incidents of melted cables, and we’re ready to listen to from Nvidia on this rating.

In the meantime, later right this moment we are able to stay up for the launch of AMD’s RDNA Three flagship and seeing how that can examine to Nvidia’s Lovelace prime canine – with energy effectivity anticipated to be significantly better for Group Crimson. How general efficiency and relative pricing will stack up will, in fact, even be key components.

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