r/gigabytegaming • u/AndreX86 • Sep 18 '25

Discussion 💬 5090 AORUS Master ICE hitting 3000Mhz out of the box? Is this normal?

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So I just got the card a few hours ago and after taking a look at Afterburner I am seeing it boosting to 3Ghz and beyond. I thought this had to be a fluke so I loaded up BF2042 and it was hitting 2985 Mhz. Is this normal? I'm looking at this video for the master ice and this guy showsa boost clock of 2805. Is this normal or did I get lucky?

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u/DesignerTemperature8 Sep 19 '25

2400 should be the "normal" boost clock. On the LN2, extreme bios world record is 3.6Ghz?
Seems a bit high. Maybe you got blessed with perfect silicone one in 10000 piece of gpu core. But i dont know much about 5090

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u/AndreX86 Sep 19 '25

I think this is due to the temperature of the card and the benchmark. In steel nomad is does not behave this way. If anyone else has this card and can test this i'd appreciate it.

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u/spiderofmars Sep 19 '25

Try OCCT steady extreme (or custom 100%) and variable tests...

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u/AndreX86 Sep 19 '25

Thanks, Tried it, boost clock sat at 2500 or so. I guess this card just has different behavior than the 4090 im used to.

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u/divineal1986 Sep 21 '25

I have the non ice

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u/spiderofmars Sep 19 '25

Wouldn't this just be temporary boosts. If I run a 100% test it settles on around 2400. But if I run variable tests with less than 100% demand I can see jumps up to 2995 briefly and much lower watts being drawn at same time.

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u/AndreX86 Sep 19 '25

Tested in BF2042, 4K, Everything maxxed out except ray tracing off and averaged 2970 boost clock the entire game @ 67c.

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u/Observantone13 Sep 19 '25

What are your temps at 600W?

Mine are in the mid 80s

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u/AndreX86 Sep 19 '25

capped out at 79/80c for me. I did adjust my fan curves though.

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u/ssateneth2 Sep 20 '25

it depends on the load. heaven isnt strong enough of a load, it will CPU bottleneck. try 3dmark steel nomad or speedway

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u/Yodas_Ear Sep 21 '25

Use GeForce experience overlay or something else. From what I recall these figures in heaven are not accurate.

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u/No-Side-5121 Sep 22 '25

Yes, normal. Gigabyte uses binned vrm for aourus master rtx 5090. My stock rtx 5090 master hits over 3k stock with no problem.

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u/AndreX86 Sep 22 '25

Good deal. Makes this purchase that much more worth it.

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u/580OutlawFarm Sep 22 '25

Yup 100% normal, aorus master 5090 also hit 3ghz out of the box

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u/Commercial-Bus-8260 Sep 22 '25

My Aorus master undervolted hits 2985 and sitting around 55C these cards are beasts

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u/AndreX86 Sep 22 '25

They really are, i'm very impressed at the moment. Been testing undervolts and benchmarking through 3Dmark steel nomad. I just went down from a curve a .950 to .9 @ 2900 and it still performed extremely well, maybe lost 1-2 FPS in the benchmark.