AMD recently teamed up with overclockers Bill Alverson and Allen ‘Splave’ Golibersuch to go after the GPU frequency record, and they’ve shared their success in a recent video. In it, they pushed an RX 9060 XT to its limits with liquid nitrogen and enhanced power delivery, hitting an utterly insane 4.769GHz. That’s not just a new record; it demolishes the old one and puts AMD within spitting distance of the 5GHz threshold that would have seemed impossible just a generation or two ago.
Extreme GPU overclocking has made a big comeback with this generation of graphics cards. That’s partly because neither AMD nor Nvidia is releasing new models while they try to fill their overbought orders for AI data centers, and partly because this latest batch of GPUs is power-hungry monsters. Although the 9060 XT is an entry-level GPU targeting 1080p and 1440p play, it can still handle a lot of juice if you keep it cool enough.
The RX 9060 XT has a standard boost clock of 3.13GHz, so the overclockers had to take it quite far to break the existing record of 4.02GHz on a discrete GPU. In the video, Splave said he expected them to hit 4.4 or even 4.5GHz, so achieving a new record several hundred MHz higher is a real win.
Unfortunately, the overclockers don’t give us a full breakdown of their settings and the tweaks they made to achieve this record, but liquid nitrogen is absolutely involved, and the cards were customized with liquid metal TIM and custom cooling pots.
AMD made it clear, though, that it plans to break more records in 2026. It seems only fair to target 5GHz next, right?
