Breaking benchmark records is not only a challenge for creators of new processors and GPUs, but also for professional overclockers looking to create setups that score as high as possible with the hardware on the market. This is what they achieved with the Port Royal benchmark from 3DMark with an RTX 3090 and an Intel i9-12900K.
The launch of a new generation of CPU is a good opportunity to break records in the various benchmarks, as the extra power allows for higher scores. Although in the case of 3D Mark where the ability to move complex scenes rendered in 3D is measured in real time, the work of the GPU seems the most important to us, as does that of the CPU, since it is he who is in task of calculating the position of each object in the scene then generating the scene on the screen. In other words, the only thing the GPU does is draw the scene.
The higher IPC capacity of the Intel Core 12 has prompted professional overclockers to use the most powerful processor in this family, the i9-12900K, to break records in graphics benchmarks such as the Port Royal and 3DMark Time Spy benchmarks. . After all, despite measuring the performance of the GPU, it has been shown that their performance is directly affected by the CPU.
3DMark’s record broken with i9-12900K
In order to achieve this feat, the most powerful graphics card released to date was needed, a NVIDIA RTX GeForce RTX 3090 at which the clock speed was increased at 2.859 MHz speed, but a GPU of such caliber needs a CPU of the same category and that’s why they decided to use a Intel Core i9-12900K to which they accelerated to 5.4 GHz during the benchmark, a speed higher than that specified by Intel in the specifications.
It was therefore necessary to use LN2 refrigeration to achieve impressive figures. DDR5 was also the key to achieving this score, because during the benchmark they were placed two DIMMs, 8 GB each from SK Hynix at a transfer speed of 6.000 MHz. In general except for the case of RAM and the processor was used EVGA material.
And what heights have you reached? At Royal Port they reached the 20,014 points and in Time spy until the 26 952 points. Therefore, it is possible to exceed 20,000 points for the first time in the first of the two benchmarks. In any case, we cannot forget that these figures were achieved under conditions usual for a normal PC and that extreme cooling systems were used, not only thanks to the use of LN2, but also thanks to the use of highly specialized thermal pastes.
Next Generation GPUs Should Match the Numbers
In any case, this remains a curious exercise that we obviously will not be able to reproduce on our home PCs and it is not designed for a long-term use scenario. Of course, it is possible that next year we will talk about this performance in the 3DMark benchmarks without the need for complex and unique constructs like this.
Let’s not forget that for example Port Royal is a benchmark for measuring Ray Tracing capabilities and it wouldn’t be surprising that NVIDIA and AMD have considered going above 20,000 points in their next generation of GPUs for Gaming, in all. In this case, the performance of the processors will also be essential against ray tracing, as many functions currently depend on the main processor because they are not accelerated by the graphics.
