In news only nerds like me will care about (which is pretty much my raison d'être at this point), the world record for the highest 3DMark Port Royal score has been smashed. Shattered. Thrown into the mud. Soundly beaten.
Okay, so it's not by a huge amount over the previous record. But the new top score on HWBot is a massive 51,663 marks, and was achieved by user Cmaker. Take a bow, you king of overclockers. I kneel at your ability to make a large number go higher than everyone else.
In all seriousness, Cmaker's rig is something to behold. The score was achieved using an MSI RTX 5090 32G Lightning Z, a limited-edition extreme graphics card priced at $5,000+ upon release—and for god knows how much if you can find one today. It was also cooled with liquid nitrogen to achieve a top clock speed of 3,623 MHz, 848 MHz higher than the already-massive max "default" speed of 2,775 M...
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