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(Image credit: Trashbench) An incredibly ambitious hardware modder with a penchant for both sublime and ridiculous GPU tinkering has boosted an RTX 5050 to nearly 3.5GHz with a camping freezer. The result is clocks boosted to nearly 3.5GHz, a 23% uplift, and a handful of broken world records. This test was performed as part of what Trashbench calls "the dumbest competition on YouTube" in a video about his battle against fellow overclocking YouTuber Clock Bench to see who can push the GeForce RTX 5050 harder.
Determined to win, Trashbench shunt-modded his Gigabyte RTX 5050 card to unlock the card's power limits and crank it as hard as possible. He ended up with a sustained clock rate of 3468 MHz, some 23% increased over the stock 2820 MHz. This pushed the little GB207 GPU to the top of the 3DMark benchmark charts, and indeed, it is probably the fastest GB207 on the planet—for what dubious merit that honor awards. #1 is #1, though, no matter the context.
Thanks to the Techni-Ice freezer and the 60/40 glycol mix, GPU temperatures apparently hovered between -12℃ and 15℃, depending on the benchmark load. The GPU reported a power draw of just 78W, but of course, due to the shunt mod, that value is completely inaccurate. Shunt mods work by replacing or bypassing the sensing resistors on the GPU's +12V lines, so the card isn't able to detect its own power consumption correctly; this has the effect of unlimiting the power, so you're only capped by voltage and thermal limits.
Mobile RTX 2070 with shunt mod nearly eclipses desktop performance
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/overclocking/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/overclocking/ambitious-overclocker-pushes-rtx-5050-to-nearly-3-5-ghz-with-a-camping-freezer-smashes-world-records-smallest-blackwell-gpu-yields-23-percent-clock-boost#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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