MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z 2500W XOC BIOS screenshot appears

Fresh benchmark submissions tied to MSI’s GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z show the GPU reaching 3,742 MHz , which is roughly 3.75 GHz . That is about a 100 MHz step up over the prior 3.65 GHz figure posted for a GALAX RTX 5090D HOF OC V2.

The runs are linked to an RTX 5090 Lightning Z “OCER” card, described as a unit sent directly to overclockers rather than a retail model. In other words, it’s not clear if the retail model with an air cooler (which was not provided to overclockers) will have similar settings. If past releases of this kind are any indicator, users will have to rely on overclockers to share this BIOS and hopefully it works with the normal retail version too.

Source: Littleboy, Lucky_n00b

Photos also point to a non-retail and exotic cooling setup. Overclocker do not need air cooling, but a way to install liquid nitrogen or liquid cooler like in the header image.

Source: HWBOT

In the submissions, memory is shown at 36 Gbps, matching what other RTX 5090 extreme OC results have been hitting so far. The card also shows up across a mix of light compute and 3D tests, with results shared for GPUPI plus common benchmarks like Time Spy, Port Royal, and Speedway. A separate screenshot making the rounds claims MSI has an XOC BIOS with a power limit up to 2,500W , higher than the 2,000W figure often mentioned for competing XOC BIOS options.

One thing to note is that HWBOT does not run an official GPU frequency category , unlike CPU and memory. The closest is GPUPI , because it is a light workload that often lets the GPU sit at a higher clock than real graphics loads, so it is more a frequency hunting method than a measure of  stable gaming clocks.

So no, we can’t say someone broke a GPU frequency record, in fact, it is not even close to the highest known clock as achieved on Arrow Lake iGPU, as reported in June .

Source: Littleboy (HWBOT) , Lucky_n00b (HWBOT) , Tsaik (HWBOT) , Wccftech

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