Thursday, June 21st 2012
EVGA GTX 680 Classified 4GB Smashes 2 GHz GPU Clock Barrier
EVGA's GeForce GTX 680 4GB, in the skilled hands of Vince "k|ngp|n" Lucido, smashed the 2 GHz barrier for GPU clock, setting a new clock speed world record for the GTX 680. The card achieved a GPU clock speed of 2,002 MHz, with a core voltage of 1.212V; and memory clock speed of 7.406 GHz. The card went on to score P16472 in 3DMark 11 (performance preset). The rest of the test-bench included Intel Core i7-3960X six-core processor clocked at 5.53 GHz, EVGA X79 Classified motherboard, 16 GB of quad-channel DDR3-2400 MHz G.Skill RipjawsZ memory, and EVGA NEX 1500W PSU. The GPU was cooled by k|ngp|n Tek-9 FAT 6.0 LN2 evaporator, while the CPU was cooled by k|ngp|n Dragon F1 Dark LN2 evaporator. Find the ORB page here.
27 Comments on EVGA GTX 680 Classified 4GB Smashes 2 GHz GPU Clock Barrier
Kingpin replaced the evga precession image or after 3D load he set the 2003Mhz clock.
Facts:
The power graph is not show that there was any 3dmark load.
I or everybody can set higher clocks in 2D which freeze in 3D.
So the simply way that kingpin is chose: He ran the 3dmark with lower clock, it would was 1800-1900Mhz, and after in 2D he set 2003Mhz.
This way he can tell he was the first who broke 2ghz but actually not...
If you didn't know we change clock speeds during different tests on the fly during the benchmark. This applied to 3DMark Vantage GT2 as well where you had to clock lower than in GT1. You can use keyboard short cuts for this. GPU-Z validation isn't the end all be all, it's useful but it isn't always reliable and in the desktop it indeed may be 1846 that does not mean it was that during the benchmark. He's done 1950MHz before btw ;)
hwbot.org/submission/2293742_kingpin_3dmark11___performance_geforce_gtx_680_16472_marks
So while the 2ghz clock is impressive.... I don't believe this score will take too much... to be beaten by the HD 7970.
HD7970 results are done with Tessellation turned off, that's why the scores are so high. With Tessellation turned on, the scores on the HD7970s are significantly lower.
We all know this who take part in Extreme OC
Thank you. You answered my curiosity.
I bet EVGA sells cards from this nonsense, I feel sorry for the sucker that falls for it.
The amount of effort required to do and achieve this is lost to you and that's ok but don't speak ill of an overclocking milestone. Big ups to EVGA and Vince for this achievement :)
Nvidia and their tricks. They're a sad competitor.
"Saving" scores waiting for someone to beat your own, so you cna then one-up them...man...This truly isn't the record...The real record is the score he's got saved and will submit later!:shadedshu
It's not this result that is confusing, it's nVidia's boost that is..well..confusing!
or did it only turbo to 2g occasionally throughout the bench?
others have hit 1950 as well, so then this "2g" run wouldnt really be anything special...
Nothing Special...xexe
When EVGA do something than it's nothing special, when ASUS launched any of their exspensive HW in unsealed box everything from them is special.
Strongest part of EVGA is enthusiast+technical support+exspensive prize games,
stronger ASUS parts is marketing, influence on forums, sites and teens, techincal support global disasters.
For me is special when retailer can search for binned chips over night because ASUS and similar package.
For me this is more important than 5, 6, 7, 8, GHz for CPU. This happen once in 10 years and more,
I still wait other to do that. After 3-4 months... Someone to achive again most important record in last 5-10 years.