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Famous overclockers overclocked the RX 7900 XTX to 3.25GHz, but still beat the RTX 4090

author:Ultra Net

In February we covered a series of news stories about the PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XTX Liquid Devil, a water-cooled graphics card designed to provide gamers with ultimate performance. According to VideoCardz, the famous Youtube technology blogger Der8auer has also pushed the performance of this card to the limit.

First of all, let's introduce the bottom of this card, which uses EK custom cold heads, and is equipped with 3 8 PIN interfaces, 17-phase power supply, which can give full play to the potential of the graphics card. But on top of that, Der8auer needs to do more. He used ElmorLabs' EVC2SE module, a component for fine voltage regulation.

Famous overclockers overclocked the RX 7900 XTX to 3.25GHz, but still beat the RTX 4090

After choosing the overclocked BIOS, the frequency of this RX 7900 XTX has reached around 3.0GHz and the power consumption is as high as 420W. After Der8auer used EVC2SE to boost the voltage to 1.050V, the frequency and power consumption of the graphics card were further improved, reaching 3.05GHz and 500W.

The end result of overclocking is that the RX 7900 XTX passed the 3DMark Time Spy Extreme test at 3.25GHz, achieving a frequency of 3.38GHz at lower loads, while consuming up to 650W and reaching 100 degrees Celsius. Compared to the public RX 7900 XTX, the graphics card after extreme overclocking has achieved a 28% performance improvement.

Famous overclockers overclocked the RX 7900 XTX to 3.25GHz, but still beat the RTX 4090

Unfortunately, even if the RX 7900 XTX is pushed to such a limit, its score is still inferior to NVIDIA's RTX 4090 Founder Edition. The gap is around 7.2 per cent.

Famous overclockers overclocked the RX 7900 XTX to 3.25GHz, but still beat the RTX 4090

Through this experiment of Der8auer, and in connection with previous news, it is easy to understand why AMD said that after measuring cost and power consumption, it gave up developing a super flagship GPU that competes with the RTX 4090. Assuming that there is an AMD GPU, the parameters of size and power consumption should be surprisingly high.