Friday, May 14th 2021

Radeon RX 6900 XT Overclocked to 3321MHz, Breaks FireStrike World Record

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A PowerColor Radeon RX 6900 XT (Liquid Devil or Red Devil) graphics card was overclocked to a staggering 3321 MHz by professional overclocker OGS, which went on to bag the 3DMark FireStrike world record, with a score of 37618 points on the HWBot leaderboard. It's important to note here, that the benchmark run was done with tessellation disabled—something that UL Benchmarks doesn't consider valid for its own leaderboard, but HWBot allows such benchmark runs, and so here we are. The FireStrike leaderboard has been dominated by the RX 6900 XT, as the card beats even the GeForce RTX 3090 in this test.
Sources: Michal Simonek (Twitter), Wccftech, VideoCardz

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30 Comments on Radeon RX 6900 XT Overclocked to 3321MHz, Breaks FireStrike World Record

#1
FlanK3r
Hah, thanks with share my Twitter man
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#2
lexluthermiester
This was a run on LN2 or some other form of extreme cooling. No other way they could have got that.
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#3
ZoneDymo
lexluthermiesterThis was a run on LN2 or some other form of extreme cooling. No other way they could have got that.
well yeah, obviously, imagine if the world record so far was done on just air or water till now :P
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#4
Caring1
The picture in O.P. states LN2 was used and even contains a pic of the set up used.
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#5
64K
Here's a bigger pic of the LN2 cooler.

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#6
Lionheart
Nice, can't wait until 3ghz & higher become the base clock for GPU's.
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#7
ZoneDymo
LionheartNice, can't wait until 3ghz & higher become the base clock for GPU's.
or new architecture that can do the same performance but at "only" 1ghz.
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#8
wolf
Better Than Native
Person uses extreme measures to achieve extreme results, with a card no sane person would buy!

Fun headline, fun time doing it... grats to the overclocker and the card in question. I'm jealous I don't that job instead of my own. Hec they probably didn't even have to do the actual buying of the card. Parkour!
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#9
laszlo
wolfHec they probably didn't even have to do the actual buying of the card. Parkour!
i think you're right as we usually don't hear about record breaks from people who actually had to buy the cards .....is easy to have fun this way
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#11
Ruru
S.T.A.R.S.
LionheartNice, can't wait until 3ghz & higher become the base clock for GPU's.
Probably won't take long if it's my wild guess. The first GHz took ages to reach (GTX 680/HD 7970 GHz ed.) but after all, the speeds have increased pretty rapidly from there.
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#12
xtreemchaos
thats one hell of a speed and score but im not sure how i should feel about it with no Tess, id like to see it with Tessellation on. but all the same well done to those who did it.
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#13
docnorth
Today I learned something new: Professional overclocker. Hopefully it’s not like YouTube influencer.
No offence intended.
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#14
Philaphlous
I love how this score is going to be par for the course in about 2-3 years... but nice result... I'm struggling to get 7K in TS graphics with my 2060 mobile...lol
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#15
FlanK3r
RavenasXT or XTXH?
At least modified BIOS from XTXH
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#16
xkm1948
Since we are talking about ancient benchmarks (Firestrike is like 8yrs old now), has any records been set for 3DMark Vantage or 3DMark11 using this card? Maybe even a 3DMark 2001SE new world record.
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#17
ZoneDymo
docnorthToday I learned something new: Professional overclocker. Hopefully it’s not like YouTube influencer.
No offence intended.
Not sure what you mean? There are people out there specifically paid/working for companies to get records on their hardware for advertisement, Vincent "K|NGP|N" Lucido of EVGA is one of the more known ones
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#18
1d10t
Are this would be boost clock of 7900XT?
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#19
Lindatje
as the card beats even the GeForce RTX 3090 in this test.
The 6900XT is as fast or a little faster in games than the 3090, so it is not strange that it beats the 3090 also in 3dmark.
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#20
docnorth
ZoneDymoNot sure what you mean? There are people out there specifically paid/working for companies to get records on their hardware for advertisement, Vincent "K|NGP|N" Lucido of EVGA is one of the more known ones
You mean we know if the overclocker bought a random GPU or if a binned GPU was provided and the overclocker was paid by Powercolor and/or AMD?
Still a remarkable value, but I consider more impressive the RX 6900XT clocks with conventional cooling.
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#21
Minus Infinity
Is any actually impressed or gives a damn about these sorts of efforts that have ZERO applicability to real world use? I don't even find it interesting as an engineering feat, these have to be the most boring sorts of records I could imagine.
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#22
TheinsanegamerN
Minus InfinityIs any actually impressed or gives a damn about these sorts of efforts that have ZERO applicability to real world use? I don't even find it interesting as an engineering feat, these have to be the most boring sorts of records I could imagine.
No one is forcing you to read or comment, you know. I find it interesting that such a large chip can be pushed to over 3 GHz, it was only 10 years ago that hitting a third of that number was an amazing feat, and that wasnt on a chip this large.
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#23
Thimblewad
TheinsanegamerNNo one is forcing you to read or comment, you know. I find it interesting that such a large chip can be pushed to over 3 GHz, it was only 10 years ago that hitting a third of that number was an amazing feat, and that wasnt on a chip this large.
Well, technology has come a long way. Sometimes David wins versus Goliath. All the technologies AMD has been using are open source. So make your Ngreedia peoople have some leverage *oooooooooops*
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#24
docnorth
TheinsanegamerNNo one is forcing you to read or comment, you know. I find it interesting that such a large chip can be pushed to over 3 GHz, it was only 10 years ago that hitting a third of that number was an amazing feat, and that wasnt on a chip this large.
Well @Minus Infinity has a point, the RX 6900XT clocks with conventional cooling are much more interesting.
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#25
Ravenas
My Powercolor 6900 XTXH clocks at 2850 MHz with auto over clock. This card is a beast, and faster than my PNY 3090 that I swapped for the XTXH.
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