RX 6900 XT pushed to an immense 3.3GHz, steals my heart and top spot in Fire Strike hall of fame

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There was a time, not that long ago, when I wouldn't have believed you if you told me you'd overclocked a graphics card to 3.3GHz. There's still a part of me that finds that concept quite absurd, really, but lo and behold a world-class overclocker has not only managed that feat but also used that newfound performance to score the highest 3DMark has ever seen in its Fire Strike benchmark.

The key ingredient: the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. 

AMD's top RX 6000-series graphics card is once again showing its metal when it comes to high clock speeds, managing 3,311MHz GPU core clock in overclocker OGS' capable hands. That's over 1GHz faster than the card's reference boost clock. That 3.3GHz clock speed makes my brain melt, and I'm sure also causes plenty else to melt nearby when it's switched on.

That's not all that's been overclocked, however. The card's memory has also been pumped up from 2GHz to 2.4GHz.

With this card, paired alongside an Intel Core i9 12900K and loaded into an Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Apex, Greek overclocker OGS has taken the top spot in the Fire Strike Hall of Fame with a score of 63,361 (via Nordic Hardware).

That was all under LN2 conditions, too. Though OGS notes that the 3.3GHz clock was impressively maintained throughout the duration of the record-beating Fire Strike run.

That's nearly 1,000 points greater than the second-highest score, South Korea's biso biso at 62,389. Their setup is awfully similar, though with a slightly lower GPU core clock of 3,147MHz. That's still mighty quick, of course.

In third place sits famed overclocker K|NGP|N, who opted for an entirely different setup. This includes an Intel Core i9 10980XE alongside four, yes four, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti cards.

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