I’ve never held a can of LN2 (liquid nitrogen) in my hand, much less used it cool computer components in service of breaking world records. I doubt that latter circumstance will ever change but that won’t dampen my enthusiasm for watching professional overclockers work their magic. Lucky for me, someone just set a new all-time high for GPU clock speeds… with an Intel CPU.
Live from the G.Skill booth at Computex 2025, overclocker SkatterBencher achieved a GPU clock of 4,250MHz with a healthy dose of LN2 and plenty of know-how. In place of a graphics card, they were pushing the integrated graphics of Core Ultra 9 285K to its limit.
Impressive as this feat is, SkatterBencher was confident in their ability to achieve such clock speeds as they’d cheekily already done so in preparation for Computex 2025. The YouTuber highlights that doing so was easier thanks their ROG Z890 Apex motherboard and assistance from Asus overclocking legend, Shamino.
As you might expect, this overclock isn’t stable under load. However, SkatterBencher was able to run several benchmarks while running the integrated graphics at a slightly lower 3,900MHz. This pushed the likes of Counter-Strike 2 performance up from 50fps to 86.5fps which translates to an enormous 73% boost. Novabench proves the most exciting increase of all, though, almost doubling from 98 to 195.
Prior to SkatterBencher’s efforts, fellow overclocker Splave set the previous world record at 4,020MHz using a GeForce RTX 4090. Of course, the card didn’t maintain this frequency for particularly long, lasting around 0.825ms. That’s still enough time to make it on the board where it remains the fastest overclock for a discrete GPU. You can find listings of prior world records here.
Impractical as this setup is in the real-world, I can’t deny that knowing a Core Ultra 9 285K’s integrated graphics have run north of 4GHz brings a smile to my face. After all, Radeon RX 9060 XT just broke the 3GHz stock clock barrier for dedicated graphics. I’m keen to see how much headroom GeForce RTX 5090 can provide overclockers, as I’m sure many are already busily finding ways to push the proverbial boat out.
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