Recently, we noticed a trend at HWBot, a site that tracks CPU/GPU overclocking records, where the China-exclusive RTX 5090D now commands the top spots across various single-GPU world records. This extends to the entire 3DMark suite, including Port Royal, Vantage Extreme, Time Spy Extreme, and Fire Strike Extreme. Why isn't a fully-featured RTX 5090 dominating the top of these tables? Well, the consistent element we see is the use of the RTX 5090D HOF OC Lab edition, an unannounced GPU from Galax that is known to feature a dual 16-pin design for elevated TGPs.
These Hall Of Fame edition GPUs offer a sophisticated power delivery system with customized vBIOS that can often be configured to deliver over 1,000W of power without board customizations. The PCBs of these GPUs can also be equipped with an LN2/Liquid Helium pot for extreme overclocking, which is probably the method employed by OGS and Rauf, both of whom are renowned overclockers, to achieve these results.
