- A YouTuber repaired an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in the board
- The project then moved on into a quest to juice up this graphics card and set a new record with it
- That attempt succeeded, with the resurrected RTX 5070 Ti taking the top spot in its GPU category for the Unigine Superposition 8K test
Pushing GPUs to record levels is of course nothing new to enthusiast overclockers – but here’s something that definitely is new: a record set by a graphics card with a hole in it.
VideoCardz highlighted the achievement of Brazilian YouTuber Paulo Gomes and his team (via PC Gamer), who had previously brought back to life a non-functional Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti that had a hole in the circuit board.
That feat of technical resurrection wasn’t enough though, and the YouTube channel figured it would be a fun task to set a record with this RTX 5070 Ti.
The team used an RTX 2080 Ti card as a new base for the broken GPU, then did a whole lot of soldering, fiddling with voltages and tweaking power levels to get something that could set a world record.
This happened during a live stream that lasted over seven hours (which you can watch below – or rather, skip through, rather than watch in its entirety, unless you’re very brave), and it ended with a new record for the Unigine Superposition 8K optimized test.
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Analysis: a seriously impressive performance
This fudged-to-work RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in it managed to score 11,150 in the end, which is way behind the RTX 5090 results, of course, but it’s the best score ever seen for the RTX 5070 Ti itself (obviously down in the overall ranking). The GPU did this by hitting a clock speed of 3.23GHz, we’re told.
As VideoCardz points out, this isn’t the most respected GPU benchmark in town these days, but nonetheless, getting a broken RTX 5070 Ti working again – and working well enough to break any record – is frankly amazing.
Granted, the resulting graphics card doesn’t look pretty, with wires snaking everywhere and yellow masking tape applied everywhere, but in some ways this makes the performance all the more remarkable.
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