There was a time, not that way back, once I would not have believed you when you informed me you’d overclocked a graphics card to three.3GHz. There’s nonetheless part of me that finds that idea fairly absurd, actually, however lo and behold a world-class overclocker has not solely managed that feat but in addition used that newfound efficiency to attain the best 3DMark has ever seen in its Hearth Strike benchmark.
The important thing ingredient: the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT.
AMD’s prime RX 6000-series graphics card is as soon as once more exhibiting its steel on the subject of excessive clock speeds, managing 3,311MHz GPU core clock in overclocker OGS’ succesful fingers. That is over 1GHz sooner than the cardboard’s reference enhance clock. That 3.3GHz clock pace makes my mind soften, and I am certain additionally causes lots else to soften close by when it is switched on.
That is not all that is been overclocked, nevertheless. The cardboard’s reminiscence has additionally been pumped up from 2GHz to 2.4GHz.
With this card, paired alongside an Intel Core i9 12900K and loaded into an Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Apex, Greek overclocker OGS has taken the highest spot within the Hearth Strike Corridor of Fame with a rating of 63,361 (through Nordic Hardware).
That was all below LN2 circumstances, too. Although OGS notes that the three.3GHz clock was impressively maintained all through the length of the record-beating Fire Strike run.
That is almost 1,000 factors larger than the second-highest rating, South Korea’s biso biso at 62,389. Their setup is very related, although with a barely decrease GPU core clock of three,147MHz. That is nonetheless mighty fast, after all.
In third place sits famed overclocker Okay|NGP|N, who opted for a wholly completely different setup. This contains an Intel Core i9 10980XE alongside 4, sure 4, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti playing cards.
In order that’s one closely overclocked RX 6900 XT taking down 4 closely overclocked GTX 1080 Tis, the most effective card of its technology, the Pascal class of ’17.
The truth is eight of the highest 10 Corridor of Fame entries are utilizing AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT. The one different exception is in tenth place, the place overclocker Rauf opted for twin Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti playing cards in SLI for his or her record-pushing run.
So what does this inform us? Overclockers know find out how to push the fitting buttons to extract probably the most efficiency, that is for certain, but in addition simply how spectacular AMD’s generation-on-generation beneficial properties with RDNA 2 have been, most of all by way of clock optimisation. We already knew that was the case—AMD’s RDNA 2 chips mop the ground with Nvidia’s GPUs in uncooked clock pace—however whenever you see an overclocker push nicely into 3GHz territory, it is clear simply how a lot AMD’s many methodology, tool, and manufacturing improvements have helped it ship with this technology.
Then OGS went and blew everybody away.
