ASUS announced that the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition graphics card has achieved four world records and two global first-place rankings in the single GPU category. The ROG Astral is one of the most expensive cards available today, and that likely meant access to the top-binned silicon which help facilitate world record attempts.
ROG Astral RTX 5090 Claims Six Records
All six records on the ROG card is done by South Korean-based overclocker ‘SafeDisk’, which includes four world records in 3DMark Port Royal, 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme, UNIGINE Superposition 1080P Xtreme, UNIGINE Superposition 8K Optimized, plus two global first-place records in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme and GPUPI v3.3 32B.
The GPU was pushed way beyond its stock limits through liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling in all overclocking attempts, with the GB202 silicon clocking up to 3.45GHz in the GPUPI attempt, while Superposition 8K pushed the memory clock speeds to a staggering 35Gbps, which amounts to 2.24TB/s of theoretical bandwidth across all GDDR7 memory modules.
As one of the most expensive and perhaps most overbuilt GPUs on the market, the ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 does feature a few unique tricks up its sleeve, including the quad-fan design and the integration of multiple shunt resistors to detect over-current in the 12V-2×6 cables (a feature that already existed in ROG’s RTX 4090 cards). The latter is particularly useful right now, as they are several cases of RTX 5090 with burnt connectors due to the lack of safety margins associated with the infamous 12-pin power connector standard.
Pokdepinion: I wonder if GALAX will answer with their HoF cards soon enough.
