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Vince “K|NGP|N” Lucido, one of the world’s top overclockers who collaborates with EVGA, has managed to overclock Nvidia Corp.’s GM200-310 graphics processing unit to a record-high frequency. Using EVGA’s top-of-the-range GeForce GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N graphics adapter specifically designed for extreme overclocking, Mr. Lucido managed to set multiple records.

The legendary overclocker has managed to bolster clock-rates of the GeForce GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N graphics card to whopping 2100MHz/8400MHz (GPU/memory). 2.10GHz is the highest clock-rate ever achieved by the GM200 graphics processor, the frequency is slightly below 2.30GHz, the absolutely highest clock-rate ever achieved by any graphics processing unit. To hit record frequencies, Vince “K|NGP|N” Lucido used liquid nitrogen (LN2) and increased voltage of the GPU.

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To test performance of the heavily overclocked graphics card, Kingpin used his rig powered by an Intel Core i7-5960X processor overclocked to 5000MHz – 5518MHz (also cooled-down using liquid nitrogen), an EVGA Intel X99 mainboard and 16GB of 3.30GHz DDR4 memory.

By tweaking clock-rates of the graphics adapter, Vince Lucido managed to achieve the following results in the following benchmarks:

  • 3DMark Fire Strike – 25233
  • 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme – 13091
  • 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra – 6988

The results are three new world’s records for single-GPU setups.

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Nvidia’s GM200 graphics processing unit is one of the most complex GPUs ever produced: it features eight billion of transistors and clearly was not designed to run at 2.0GHz. Nonetheless, thanks to extreme cooling, increase of GPU voltage and various tweaking, Mr. Lucido has managed to increase clock-rate of the chip to around 2100MHz.

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KitGuru Says: As expected, the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N is an excellent overclocker, which is considerably better than Nvidia’s own design for GM200-based graphics adapters. Still, the highly-custom design of the EVGA product only increased maximum clock-rate of the GPU by 100MHz, which is a noteworthy, but hardly a massive increase.

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EVGA pre-bins GM200 GPUs for GeForce GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/evga-pre-bins-gm200-gpus-for-geforce-gtx-980-ti-kngpn/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/evga-pre-bins-gm200-gpus-for-geforce-gtx-980-ti-kngpn/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:31:26 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=259934 It is not a secret that every graphics processing unit has a unique set of physical features, including individual overclocking potential. In a bid to provide unique service to its customers, EVGA will offers its flagship GeForce GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N with pre-determined overclocking potential. The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N Edition graphics card …

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It is not a secret that every graphics processing unit has a unique set of physical features, including individual overclocking potential. In a bid to provide unique service to its customers, EVGA will offers its flagship GeForce GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N with pre-determined overclocking potential.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N Edition graphics card was designed to provide absolutely the highest overclocking potential among all adapters based on Nvidia Corp.’s GM200-310 graphics processing unit. Thanks to 12-layer custom printed circuit board, advanced 14+3 voltage regulator module (VRM) and other innovations, the new graphics card can hit clock-rates impossible on competing products. The only thing that limits performance and overclocking potential of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N is the GPU itself, but the manufacturer seems to have solved the problem.

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EVGA will offer different versions of the product with different “quality” of the GM200-310 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The boards with “default” quality of the chip with “good” overclocking potential will cost $849, whereas versions with highest-quality ASIC and “best” overclocking potential will cost $1049. The quality of the GPU does not guarantee any specific overclock performance, but gives an idea what to expect from a particular card.

“K|NGP|N GTX 980 Ti once again represents EVGA's dedication to the enthusiast inspired hardware, bullet proof engineering and bleeding edge performance,” said Vince “K|NGP|N” Lucido, an extreme overclocker who has achieved many records with EVGA hardware.

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Earlier this month Mr. Lucido revealed that Nvidia “Maxwell” graphics processing units require extreme cooling methods to be overclocked beyond certain levels. Therefore, to take advantage of maximum overclocking potential of a GPU, one will need liquid nitrogen or liquid helium.

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KitGuru Says: It is obvious that overclocking capability means additional performance in games. However, charging $200 more for a chance to overclock the GPU to extreme clock-rates using extreme cooling methods seems to be an unusual decision.

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