Thursday, March 22nd 2012
EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Cracks 1842 MHz Core
Thought the 1800/7700 MHz Radeon HD 7970 OC feat involving an MSI R7970 Lightning was impressive, wait till you see what the punters at EVGA, with K|ngp|n have in store. Armed with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 graphics cards, augmented by EVGA EPower board, and PrecisionX software, the EVGA GTX 680 was able to crack the 1800 MHz core frequency mark, reaching 1842 MHz, powered by a core voltage of 1.212V. Interestingly, the memory clock offset wasn't tinkered with. The rest of the system consisted of a Core i7-3960X clocked at ~5.50 GHz. The bench was stable enough to score 14912 points at 3DMark 11 (performance preset). Compare this, to the R7970 Lightning clocked at 1800 MHz core, 7.70 GHz memory (370 GB/s bandwidth), with no additional soldering except plugging in the GPU Reactor, and a slower Core i7-3960X CPU (clocked at 5.00 GHz), which went on to score P15035. Luckily for EVGA, the overclocking feat hasn't ended, and is still work in progress.
Source:
VR-Zone
38 Comments on EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Cracks 1842 MHz Core
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Still this is good sign for us normal guy's :D
just kidding... :toast:
I don't keep up with benching so i can't say what ATi was able to accomplish (or not) with their reference card's. But judging from the few thing's i have seen i think a hard modded 7970 could keep pace with this 680 :o I mean there are quite a few 1300Mhz ++ on air and unmoded so....
Keep pushing the limit's proclocker's! :rockout:
What a nice little GPU Nvidia has crafted ;)
Both manufacturers know the sweet spot is $250, I believe you'll be able to get a card with all the latest features in that price bracket soon when both companies come to their senses.
so evga created a special bios, signed it with their debug key, and gave it to the overclockers.
and yes this means no more bios moddding for end users
Ability to custom mod your own BIOS could be a detractor for some user's :o
nvidia was very clear that partners must install power measurement circuitry, must guarantee stability over all clock&voltage combinations, must mention both base and boost clock in their messaging, must enable dynamic oc and can only incresae oc base and boost by the same percentage