Saturday, June 22nd 2024
Legendary Overclocker KINGPIN Leaves EVGA and Joins PNY to Develop Next-Generation GPUs for Extreme OC
Legendary overclocker Vince Lucido, aka KINGPIN, has reportedly partnered with PNY to develop next-generation GPUs for extreme overclocking. KINGPIN, known for his unparalleled expertise in pushing hardware to its limits, revealed the partnership during a recent interview with Gamers Nexus at Computex 2024. The move comes as welcome news to enthusiasts who have been eagerly awaiting KINGPIN's next venture since EVGA's departure left a noticeable gap in the high-end GPU segment. Previously, he was the leading engineer of EVGA's high-end KINGPIN designs aimed at pushing the GPU to its limits. However, since EVGA decided to leave the GPU business, KINGPIN was looking for a new company to work on the next-generation GPU designs.
This time, the company of choice for KINGPIN is now PNY. While he has been in contact with many companies like GALAX and ASUS, he claims that it would be very crowded to work there as there are "too many cooks in the kitchen" with these companies already having in-house overclockers. He has also been talking with MSI, but the company wasn't interested in making GPUs for extreme overclocking. However, PNY has been very interested in shaking up the high-end GPU market. KINGPIN claims that there is a massive hole in the high-end GPU market, and he hopes to fill it with a collaboration with PNY. Next-generation GPU designs assisted by KINGPIN will reportedly arrive for the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series of GPUs when we hope to see the legacy EVGA left to continue at PNY.
Below, you can see the full video interview by Gamers Nexus.
This time, the company of choice for KINGPIN is now PNY. While he has been in contact with many companies like GALAX and ASUS, he claims that it would be very crowded to work there as there are "too many cooks in the kitchen" with these companies already having in-house overclockers. He has also been talking with MSI, but the company wasn't interested in making GPUs for extreme overclocking. However, PNY has been very interested in shaking up the high-end GPU market. KINGPIN claims that there is a massive hole in the high-end GPU market, and he hopes to fill it with a collaboration with PNY. Next-generation GPU designs assisted by KINGPIN will reportedly arrive for the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series of GPUs when we hope to see the legacy EVGA left to continue at PNY.
195 Comments on Legendary Overclocker KINGPIN Leaves EVGA and Joins PNY to Develop Next-Generation GPUs for Extreme OC
I would love to see Radeon done by Kingpin too.
I really wish I could have gotten a Lightning 290X but didn't want to wait got the Sapphire Vapor X which was fine....
You don't see as many on the Nvidia side either though.... Most cards have zero headroom or at best 5% these days so no point. The last one I owned was a Kingpin 980ti probably should have kept it but I used it to get a free 1080 with EVGAs step up program.
Lowest price, nominal stock performance, simple design
empirically speaking, never had coil whine and they are relatively silent and cool.
Now, given the performance behind a 4080/4090 and the very poor yield of overclocking on modern GPU, I’m not really interested in OC card but if the work here can improve the PCBs, mosfets,..power delivery circuits, I won’t complai, evga kingpin were well regarded I think
Do you see anyone making XOC version of 4060 or 7600? Those GPU will save lots of money on LN2
It seems people seriously lack understanding what's OC contest... and still fanboy, just as in drag or in any technical sport, people don't use fastest cars, but the ones they have fun and it matters most. Each class has their own difficulties and overcoming them makes the sportsmanship.
Better Vram and power circuitry would be nice and would justify the extra cost.
A tank of LN2 is like 10k usd LOL
Sound like you are a fanboy to me
It is ~1-3€ per kg. For 10K you can buy a ln2 generator.