The world record for the 3DMark Port Royal benchmark has been significantly surpassed, achieved by a custom-built system featuring a liquid nitrogen-cooled NVIDIA RTX 5090 graphics card. The new top score registered on HWBot is 51,663 marks, set by user Cmaker.
This feat was accomplished using an MSI RTX 5090 32G Lightning Z, a high-end graphics card that commanded a price of over $5,000 at its release. To reach its peak performance, the card was cooled with liquid nitrogen, enabling a clock speed of 3,623 MHz. This represents an increase of 848 MHz over the card's maximum default speed of 2,775 MHz.
The rest of Cmaker's system is equally extreme, designed to complement the overclocked GPU. The setup includes an Intel Core i9 14900KF processor, which was also water-cooled, and 32 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory, also subjected to liquid nitrogen cooling. Powering this demanding configuration is a 1,500 W Corsair power supply.
Visual inspection of the build suggests that Cmaker may have custom-milled a cooling block for the RTX 5090 and utilized numerous fans around the GPU and motherboard. Such elaborate setups are typical within the realm of extreme overclocking, where maximizing performance often requires specialized hardware and techniques.
For comparison, a stock RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card achieved a score of 36,389 in Port Royal, while the MSI RTX 5090 Suprim SOC reached 38,715. The new record-breaking score highlights the substantial gains possible with advanced cooling methods, custom hardware modifications, and significant overclocking expertise.
The pursuit of benchmark records is a continuous endeavor in the high-performance computing community. It remains to be seen how long this latest record will stand, given the resources and dedication required to achieve such extreme results.