Nov 13, 2024 21:00:00

Someone overclocks a Raspberry Pi 5 to 3.6GHz using liquid nitrogen

The Raspberry Pi 5 is rated at 2.4GHz, but overclocking enthusiast SkatterBencher managed to boost the clock frequency to 3.6GHz using liquid nitrogen and other methods.

3600 MHz Raspberry Pi 5 with Liquid Nitrogen - SkatterBencher
https://skatterbencher.com/2024/11/11/3600-mhz-raspberry-pi-5-with-liquid-nitrogen/

SkatterBencher basically uses Ubuntu, but for overclocking the Raspberry Pi 5, he used Raspberry Pi OS and applied a NUMA emulation patch that can improve the processing performance of the Raspberry Pi.

In addition, a liquid nitrogen container was placed on top of the Raspberry Pi 5 SoC.

By pouring liquid nitrogen into the container to cool the SoC and overclocking it, we were able to achieve 3600MHz (3.6GHz).

Below is

the Geekbench 6 score when the Raspberry Pi 5 is operated at 3.6GHz. The single-core score is 1062 points. For reference, the single-core score is around 800 when operated at the rated 2.4GHz .

In addition, SkatterBencher tried overclocking beyond 3.6GHz, but it did not work, and measures such as 'strengthening the power supply circuit' and 'replacing the crystal oscillator with a variable one' were also ineffective.