Nvidia’s nerfed China-edition RTX 5090D overclocked to 3.6GHz — supercooled HOF edition breaks 3DMark and overclock records

What do you get when you combine one of the world’s best overclocking teams with a special BIOS from Nvidia, and a Galax Hall of Fame 5090D with dual 16-pin power connectors? New world records in a number of benchmarks, that’s what. In this case, WCCFTech reports that team OGS broke records in Unigine Superposition, 3DMark Port Royal, and GPUPI, not to mention pushing the GPU to the highest clocks we’ve ever seen to manage it.

The Nvidia RTX 5090D is a special, China-only model of its flagship 5090 graphics cards with reduced AI performance; But its gaming performance remains intact, and indeed, special editions do exist and have been distributed to some of the world’s top overclockers to see what they can do.

Team OGS pushed the Galax RTX 5090D GPU HOF edition to the extremes by utilizing both of its dual 12V-2×6 connectors for up to 1,200W of power delivery. To make sure the BIOS didn’t hard lock them to lower power limits, too, they leveraged a unique Extreme OC BIOS from Nvidia that technically allows for up to 2,000W to be applied to the GPU and is only available for some of the world’s top overclocking teams and individuals.

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The combination of more than double the standard 5090D’s power and some liquid nitrogen cooling allowed Team OGS to push this special card to the absolute limits. They got the core clock up to 3,650 MHz when breaking the GPUPI benchmark with a time of 39 seconds; That’s over 1,200 MHz higher than the stock boost clock.