Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has already been pushed beyond its limit – ROG Astral model overclock reaches 3.45GHz and 35 Gbps VRAM

• The Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 OC Edition has taken a big leap over Nvidia’s Founders Edition model, via overclocking
• It has broken four overclocking world records, reaching a boost clock of 3.45GHz
• Unfortunately, stock still remains low across every online retailer

Nvidia‘s RTX 5000 series GPU launch has been littered with issues, ranging from limited availability (among both Founders Edition and third-party cards) to missing ROPs – but now, Asus is responsible for some good news regarding the RTX 5090.

Breaking four overclocking world records, Asus’ ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 has reached a boost clock above 3.4GHz with 35 Gbps GDDR7 VRAM, as reported by Tom’s Hardware. While the ROG Astral already has a boost clock of 2.58GHz out of the box, benchmarks (with high-end processors) on Safedisk conducted by well-known overclocker Tony Yu saw the GPU push beyond its OC limit – via air cooling, it maintained a steady 3GHz clock speed, while a liquid cooling method pushed it above to 3.45GHz, an incredibly impressive speed.