NVIDIA RTX 5050 Paraded at 3.5 GHz World Record Teenage Dream
An overclocking legend known under the handle known as TrashBench bagged some fresh world records with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050. The award was for achieving the overclocking of the graphics processor to a stable frequency of 3468 MHz, using a custom-built cooling system created through a combination of portable freezer and automotive antifreeze.
Unconventional Cooling Method
To get those clock speeds, TrashBench had to bypass the default power supply to the video card and implement a custom cooling loop. Glycol (antifreeze) was circulated through that loop to control the temperature of the GPU under heavy load.
The cooling unit worked between -17 °C and -22 °C, so the GPU RTX 5050 was kept during the benchmarks at -12 °C and +15 °C. The card would only report a consumption of 78 W because they shunted the power supply, but TrashBench said its real power consumption was around 170 W.
Performance Gains and Benchmark Records
The stable 3468 MHz frequency represents a tremendous leap from the standard boosted clock of 2820 MHz of the card. This extreme overclocking was shown to increase the GPU performance by 23%.
The performance improvement was observable in multiple key benchmarks, with new records being set in all:
- 3DMark Time Spy - Score increased from 10,211 to 12,058 points.
- Port Royal - Score increased from 6,131 to 7,162 points.
- Heaven - Score increased from 6,792 to 7,953 points.
The "Pointless Competition"
He described this particular experiment as a friendly "pointless contest on YouTube" against another enthusiast called Clock Bench. TrashBench has also used this method to score yet another record a fortnight ago with an Intel Arc B580 using a nearly identical cooling scheme.
