Radeon RX 6800 XT at 2.8 GHz with liquid nitrogen: will the custom ones arrive at 3 GHz?
Source: HW Upgrade added 23rd Nov 2020
Overclocker Takukou squeezed a Radeon RX 6800 XT with liquid nitrogen, bringing the GPU to operate at 2.8 GHz. The card has been able to reach the top of some versions of the 3DMark, approaching the 50. 000 points in Fire Strike.
by Manolo De Agostini published 23 November 2020 , at 02: 41 in the Video Cards channel
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The architecture RDNA 2 allows GPUs of new AMD video cards Radeon RX 6800 to operate at very high frequencies , well above 2 GHz, so much so that several reference proposals have touched 2.6 GHz in air overclocking . This is a great result, but what happens when you put the GPU under liquid nitrogen?
The Chinese overclocker Takukou gives us a first indication: it managed to push the Navi GPU 21 of a Radeon RX 6800 XT a ben 2.8 GHz (Boost clock), obtaining the first position in 3DMark Fire Strike and Fire Strike Extreme , where he totaled 49456 and 30274 points. Thanks to the liquid nitrogen, Takukou also overclocked the card’s memory, bringing it to 2150 MHz from 2000 MHz by default.
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To achieve these results, in addition to the reference video card, the overclocker used an MSI MEG X platform 570 Godlike with a CPU Ryzen 9 5950 X overclocked to 5.6 GHz (all cores active) and 32 GB of DDR4 memory – 3800.
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Takukou’s achievements are certainly noteworthy, but there could be room to do even better, without forgetting that there are Radeon RX 6800 XT customized from part ner, from Sapphire NITRO + to PowerColor Red Devil, capable of even better results.