If I'd set a GPU overclocking world record, I'd make more fuss

My first serious attempt at overclocking was about 26 years ago, hitting 190 MHz on an Nvidia Riva TNT2 Ultra that normally ran at 150 MHz, and I told anyone who would listen. So when I learned that AMD and a top overclocker managed 4,769 MHz on a little Radeon chip, I expected more than a brief video and nothing else.

The pair used a Radeon RX 9060 XT stripped of its standard cooler to allow for a liquid nitrogen sink, and the video makes the clock speed look easy. That can't be right, because serious clocking is fraught with challenges. How exactly was 4.77 GHz reached? What tests and benchmarks measured stability and performance?

What stopped the team from going higher? Why does the video show a GPU‑Z screen for an RX 7600 XT and not an RX 9060 XT? Those are all important and unanswered questions. I'm not dismissing the efforts of Alverson and Golibersuch — squeezing an additional 52% out of the Navi 44's clock speed is enormous by any metric.

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