{"id":464329,"date":"2022-10-13T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T08:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=464329"},"modified":"2022-10-13T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T08:53:07","slug":"overclocked-rtx-4090-hits-highest-ever-gpu-clock-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/464329-overclocked-rtx-4090-hits-highest-ever-gpu-clock-speed.html","title":{"rendered":"Overclocked RTX 4090 hits highest-ever GPU clock speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overclockers on TecLab OC\u2019s team in Brazil achieved a record-breaking graphics processing unit (GPU) clock speed of 3.45GHz using Nvidia\u2019s GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, Video Cardz <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/videocardz.com\/newz\/galax-teclab-oc-team-breaks-multiple-world-records-with-geforce-rtx-4090-and-ln2-up-to-3-45-ghz-overclock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, performance degraded at such high speeds, resulting in the team reducing the clock speed before running benchmarks.<\/p>\n<p>The team \u2014 sponsored by Galax \u2014 used the graphics card company\u2019s upcoming version of the GeForce RTX 4090 SG (Serious Gaming) to achieve the feat.<\/p>\n<p>TecLab OC\u2019s team first had to remove the GPU\u2019s power limit controller, install the liquid nitrogen cooling system, and add voltage probes to analyse the card\u2019s behaviour before starting the overclocking process.<\/p>\n<p>With just the GPU\u2019s stock quad-fan cooling system, they could overclock it to an impressive 3.075GHz.<\/p>\n<p>However, with higher voltages and some liquid nitrogen cooling, the GPU hit 3.45GHz, with memory data transfer speeds reaching 24 gigatransfers per second.<\/p>\n<p>The card started showing performance degradation at such high speeds, and the team lowered the clock speed to between 3.27GHz and 3.36GHz for benchmarking.<\/p>\n<p>Even when toned down, the GPU broke five benchmark records, including the highest benchmark scores in 3DMark, Fire Strike Ultra, 3DMark Port Royal, and Unigine Superposition 8.<\/p>\n<p>The card ran with a Core i9-12900KS CPU, DDR5-5400 memory, and a Corsair 1600W power supply unit.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/464245-microsoft-launches-new-surface-devices.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft launches new Surface Pro, Surface Laptop<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team had to reduce overclock speeds for benchmarks as performance degraded after 3.45GHz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":464331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57398,81512,74926,3838,41606,81939],"class_list":["post-464329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-galax","tag-geforce-rtx-4090","tag-graphics-processing-unit-gpu","tag-nvidia","tag-overclocking","tag-teclab-oc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464385,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464329\/revisions\/464385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}