- A YouTuber repaired an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in the board
- The project then moved forward in seeking to boost this graphics card and set a new record with it.
- That attempt was successful, with the resurrected RTX 5070 Ti taking first place in its GPU category for the Unigine Superposition 8K test.
Pushing GPUs to record levels is nothing new for enthusiast overclockers, of course, but here’s something that definitely is New: a record set by a graphics card with a hole.
VideoCardz highlighted the achievement of Brazilian YouTuber Paulo Gomes and his team (via PC Gamer), who had previously resurrected a non-functioning Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti that had a hole in its circuit board.
However, that feat of technological resurrection was not enough, and the YouTube channel thought that setting a record with this RTX 5070 Ti would be a fun task.
The team used an RTX 2080 Ti board as a new base for the broken GPU, then carried out a lot of soldering, fiddling with voltages and adjusting power levels to come up with something capable of setting a world record.
This happened during a livestream that lasted over seven hours (which you can watch below – or rather, skip, rather than watch in its entirety, unless you’re really brave), and ended with a new record for the Unigine Superposition 8K optimized test.
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Analysis: a truly impressive achievement
This RTX 5070 Ti modified to run on a pinhole managed to score 11,150 in the end, which is well behind the RTX 5090’s number one results, of course, but it’s the best score ever seen for the RTX 5070 Ti itself (a little further down the overall rankings, naturally). We are told that the GPU did this reaching a clock speed of 3.23 GHz.
As VideoCardz points out, this isn’t the most respected GPU benchmark in town these days, but still, getting a broken RTX 5070 Ti back up and running (and running well enough to break any record) is, frankly, mind-blowing.
Of course, the resulting graphics card doesn’t look pretty, with cables snaking everywhere and yellow duct tape applied everywhere, but in a way, this makes the achievement even more remarkable.
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