A damaged RTX 5070 Ti revived by YouTuber Paulo Gomes and his team has now claimed a benchmark record. First reported late last year, the repair used VRMs from an AMD Radeon RX 580 donor card to bring a GPU with a literal hole in it back into operation.
The team subsequently added an Asus GeForce RTX 2080 Ti PCB as the base and adjusted power delivery. As reported via Videocardz, the resulting hybrid reached first place among RTX 5070 Ti entries in Unigine Superposition's online rankings with the 8K optimized preset.
Extensive repairs, persistent problems
During a live stream lasting more than seven hours, the team worked through problems including output initially limited to low resolutions and voltage drops under load.
A tangle of wiring, yellow tape and occasional cutting-tool work helped reduce conductor resistance and voltage loss between the two cards. Clever wiring modifications and power balancing, rather than tape alone, were responsible for the improvement.
Some worrying behavior remained. A reported temperature jump from 50 °C to 80 °C allegedly happened in roughly one second, while one of the 12 V wires appeared to approach 100 °C during benchmark runs.
A record despite the rough edges
The modified card appears to have reached a 3.23 GHz clock speed, with memory bandwidth hitting 34 Gbps. The team also claimed to have cut voltage drops from ~400 mV to ~30 mV.
Its final Unigine Superposition result reached 11,150, securing the highest listed score for an RTX 5070 Ti in that preset. Whether such an extensively rebuilt hybrid still qualifies as an RTX 5070 Ti is debatable, but the result represents a striking recovery for the damaged hardware.
