Overclocking the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G SUPRIM SOC
For our overclocking trials, we utilized MSI Afterburner version 4.6.6 Beta5. Quite honestly, there was minimal adjustment available as the power limit, VCore, and Temperature limits were all greyed out. The whole process was a bit nerve-wracking, knowing that the “Gaming” mode setting pushed the available power to its 600 Watt maximum. As visions of smoke and the smell of burning plastic came to mind, we pressed on…..because…..well……SCIENCE.
We left the fans set to their automatic cycle for the overclocking. Above, you can see the settings we arrived at. GPU clock was advanced +195MHz, while the memory clocks were advanced all the way to the right, +2000MHz. The video card performed flawlessly at these settings. None of our games had issues. The fans were inaudible on the open bench, never passing 44% with a temperature of 65 °C.
By default, the average Boost clock in the benchmark was 2832MHz. This represents a 10% increase from the factory setting. With our overclock applied, the average Boost clock was 3007MHz, a 17% increase compared to the factory setting. That’s a pretty remarkable increase. We will see how this all plays out in real-time benchmarks.