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.
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195 Comments on Legendary Overclocker KINGPIN Leaves EVGA and Joins PNY to Develop Next-Generation GPUs for Extreme OC

#151
Caring1
Something about a loose kingpin causing a derailment. :laugh:
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#152
nguyen
XaledIt is only better for brainless fanboys, to have no competition and also no quality graphics cards brands. Only for blind fanboys or Nvidia's propaganda employees who just keep posting even when they %100 wrong.
Lol another toxic fanboy defending billion dollars company who happen to be the underdog.

Keep calling other people brainless fanboys and watch your beloved company lose even more :roll:.

I will take PNY gpu over EVGA any day
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#153
lexluthermiester
nguyenNo idea why you are defending a dead brand
It's called being honest and truthful. Look into it.
nguyenif you had paid attention in middle school you should have known about survival of the fittest theory
Yes, I certainly did, in the 3rd grade. What was also taught about that theory is that it applies to wild-life. We humans, with our civilized ideals, are supposed to be above the absolute brutality of such notions. Clearly, civilized ideals are something unknown to you or you would understand that the reasons for EVGA's shutdown had little to nothing to do with silly opinions like those you have displayed in this thread.
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#154
nguyen
lexluthermiesterIt's called being honest and truthful. Look into it.


Yes, I certainly did, in the 3rd grade. What was also taught about that theory is that it applies to wild-life. We humans, with our civilized ideals, are supposed to be above the absolute brutality of such notions. Clearly, civilized ideals are something unknown to you or you would understand that the reasons for EVGA's shutdown had little to nothing to do with silly opinions like those you have displayed in this thread.
Thanks for providing nothing of value to the thread beside pointless remarks
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#155
lexluthermiester
nguyenLol another toxic fanboy defending billion dollars company who happen to be the underdog.

Keep calling other people brainless fanboys and watch your beloved company lose even more :roll:.

I will take PNY gpu over EVGA any day
Wow, look at THAT! Your own graph shows just how good EVGA was compared to the competition. Interesting...
Having worked for Dell I can confirm that internal warranty turn-around-time policy was 8 business days or 10 calendar days, depending on weekends/holidays, whichever was shorter.
nguyenThanks for providing nothing of value to the thread beside pointless remarks
I was calling you out on your continued nonsense. THAT is the value and contribution, to other readers. People need to know you're shoveling the muck about.
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#156
nguyen
lexluthermiesterWow, look at THAT! You're own graph show just how good EVGA was compared to the competition. Interesting...
Having worked for Dell I can confirm that internal warranty turn-around-time policy was 8 business days or 10 calendar days, depending on weekends/holidays, whichever was shorter.
I guess some low-level employee like you wouldn't know about how people prefer reliability over shorter RMA time :roll:
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#157
Xaled
nguyenLol another toxic fanboy defending billion dollars company who happen to be the underdog.

Keep calling other people brainless fanboys and watch your beloved company lose even more :roll:.

I will take PNY gpu over EVGA any day
A random study based on data and statistics of only 300 cards? Even it is outside of USA, your claim was that only people in US will feel its absence, EVGA did good though!
Random study's link
nguyenI guess some low-level employee like you wouldn't know about how people prefer reliability over shorter RMA time :roll:
reliability stats that are based on, hmm... 20 cards?
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#158
nguyen
XaledA random study based on data and statistics of only 300 cards? Even it is outside of USA, your claim was that only people in US will feel its absence, EVGA did good though!
Random study's link


reliability stats that are based on, hmm... 20 cards?


English is my second language but at least I understand what at least means :roll:
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#159
Xaled
nguyen

English is my second language but at least I understand what at least means :roll:


I rounded 17.657 to 20 but your math is even worse that your logic and your English :roll:
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#160
nguyen
Xaled

I rounded 17.657 to 20 but your math is even worse that your logic and your English :roll:
Dude, have you passed high school math? If there were 20 cards sold for each brand, 1 return card means 5% RMA rate.

How do you think Asrock register 0.03% RMA if they only sold 20 cards
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#161
lexluthermiester
nguyenI guess some low-level employee like you wouldn't know about how people prefer reliability over shorter RMA time :roll:
nguyenDude, have you passed high school math? If there were 20 cards sold for each brand, 1 return card means 5% RMA rate.

How do you think Asrock register 0.03% RMA if they only sold 20 cards
So this really is about ego for you, not about merit and factual info. Good to know and thanks for sharing that with everyone. Now we all know who NOT to take seriously.
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#162
Xaled
nguyenDude, have you passed high school math? If there were 20 cards sold for each brand, 1 return card means 5% RMA rate.

How do you think Asrock register 0.03% RMA if they only sold 20 cards
it is not return rate, it is defected cards rate. We know nothing about RMA process as it says Not enough data for Asrock.
Maybe people were using it for mining and didnt even bother for RMA.
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#163
nguyen
Xaledit is not return rate, it is defected cards rate. We know nothing about RMA process as it says Not enough data for Asrock.
Maybe people were using it for mining and didnt even bother for RMA.
Oh so customers just complain to the retailer that their card has some defect and proceed to do nothing about it :roll: .

So my question on 4th grade math is: how many customers complain about ASrock if they sold 20 cards? 0.06 person?
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#164
freeagent
This thread is for Vince, not for your infantile bickering.

Please stop.
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#165
Xaled
nguyenOh so customers just complain to the retailer that their card has some defect and proceed to do nothing about it :roll: .

So my question on 4th grade math is: how many customers complain about ASrock if they sold 20 cards? 0.06 person?
it says at least 300 but it doesn't say per brand. Even if its it means that only 1 of 300 Asrock users reported a defected card but we don't what what happened after that. We even dont know what is the real percentage of defected card and most importantly did those get a replacement? a refund or etc. we just don't know. This what matters most.
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#166
:D:D
BonesYes, however it was within about the last 2 years at most.
Thought it was about a year, time flies. Doesn't sound nice being laid off, hopefully they have all found something as good or better.
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#167
evernessince
Visible NoisePeople still believe this? It only occurred when debug wireframe mode was switched on which disabled all geometry culling. There was no “over tessellation” or an ocean under the entire map during normal gameplay.

forum.beyond3d.com/threads/amd-radeon-rdna2-navi-rx-6500-6600-6700-6800-6900-xt.62091/post-2176158

forum.beyond3d.com/threads/no-dx12-software-is-suitable-for-benchmarking-spawn.58013/post-1945803
Two problems:

1) Turning geometry culling off would have zero impact on the fact that individual objects are still vastly over-tessellated. You are only addressing the undermap claims, not the over-tessellation claims If you keep reading the thread you can see other users are naturally suspicious of said claims:

"LOD levels according to distance are unknown, and there's also no reason why the models on simple geometry like concrete slabs would ever need to have that ridiculously complex geometry in the first place.
I.e. if those tessellation levels and geometry complexity were never going to be used, why would they be there in the first place?"

2) You do realize the same guy you quoted twice provides zero evidence and is just a random poster right? It's worthless to quote another random user who can't even back up their claims with evidence.

It's ironic because once again the people arguing against him do provide another source against that argument that in fact it is/was a thing: techreport.com/review/crysis-2-tessellation-too-much-of-a-good-thing/

"Crytek’s decision to deploy gratuitous amounts of tessellation in places where it doesn’t make sense is frustrating, because they’re essentially wasting GPU power"

I don't know how anyone could argue that this isn't an issue when we know for a fact that limiting tessellation fixes this issue.

EDIT **

Just saw the mod post. This is my last comment on this thread @freeagent
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#169
Chomiq
GodrillaWhat ever happened to Tin?
Vince actually mentions him in the GN video, he's working in a company that specifies in manufacturing precise measuring tools, like on below micron level of accuracy.

Timestamped:
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#170
Godrilla
ChomiqVince actually mentions him in the GN video, he's working in a company that specifies in manufacturing precise measuring tools, like on below micron level of accuracy.

Timestamped:
Thanks just subbed to his new yt channel.
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#171
Max(IT)
Ferrum MasterThe only sad thing here is that Paris New York is Nvidia exclusive again...

I would love to see Radeon done by Kingpin too.
Radeon are irrelevant
TheDeeGeeWhy join a sinking ship ?
… especially right after abandoning another sinking vessel ( EVGA)
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#172
kiddagoat
I can’t recall the last time a news article derailed this badly…. I would recommend this topic locked or remove some of the off-topic comments…. Holy cow
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#173
Godrilla
Max(IT)Radeon are irrelevant


… especially right after abandoning another sinking vessel ( EVGA)
It's true, but no one seen EVGA's end coming. Interesting how he picked another Nvidia exclusive vendor to work with.
Unfortunately AMD is making their own brand irrelevant at the high end and believes maybe gamers will be desperate enough to take them back with rdna 5. Will their strategy backfire when they are the primary reason for Blackwell likely price swelling across the board?
While I am critical of them I am also hopeful they can be competetive at the high end once more for a market price correction sooner than later. If Battlemage's rt performance will be superior than rdna 4 their plan will backfire like wildfire! Imo.
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#174
Hecate91
GodrillaIt's true, but no one seen EVGA's end coming. Interesting how he picked another Nvidia exclusive vendor to work with.
Unfortunately AMD is making their own brand irrelevant at the high end and believes maybe gamers will be desperate enough to take them back with rdna 5. Will their strategy backfire when they are the primary reason for Blackwell likely price swelling across the board?
While I am critical of them I am also hopeful they can be competetive at the high end once more for a market price correction sooner than later. If Battlemage's rt performance will be superior than rdna 4 their plan will backfire like wildfire! Imo.
I've had EVGA cards and it was really my only reason for sticking with nvidia cards, every other nvidia aib brand has a lackluster warranty, either not allowing gpu disassembly or a non-transferable warranty. IMO RDNA3 could've been better, but i think it's still impressive for their first attempt at a chiplet consumer gpu.
I'm not too surprised he went with PNY, they are one of the closest brands to nvidia and the oem making quadro cards. I hope Kingpin is successful in bringing PNY into a competitive level with Asus and MSI high end cards. Although high end OC cards are becoming a very limited niche as nvidia keeps restriciting what overclocking can be done even with physical mods to the card.
AMD was already mostly irrelevant in the high end at least to those who are always going to buy the x90 level of card anyway. AMD hasn't competed with Nvidia in the high end in years and it makes no sense for them to waste billions on trying to bring a high end card to the market, when Nvidia can just cut a chunk from their massive compute dies and beat AMD without even really trying. And then you have all the tech press finding something to bash AMD on, like not having proprietary features like DLSS or frame gen, or power consumption even though no one seemed to care when the RTX 30 series consumed more power.
If Blackwell has a significant price increase, the fault is on nvidia for that one, its well known Jensen decides what the price is on launch day. Nvidia doesn't care what AMD does as they have over 80% of the market now, and IMO its on consumers who paid inflated prices during the crypto boom and keep paying Nvidia even though they shifted the whole stack down a tier yet prices up a whole tier.
And Intel Battlemage would a be a massive if, even if Battlemage can catch up in RT performance, their drivers are still very hit or miss and Intel has a long way to go if they want to catch up to AMD and Nvidia.
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#175
Dr. Dro
kiddagoatI can’t recall the last time a news article derailed this badly…. I would recommend this topic locked or remove some of the off-topic comments…. Holy cow
It's not even necessarily derailed, the individual discussed in the OP was a major figurehead at EVGA, once a prime NVIDIA AIB, and who had one of the best GPUs designs in the business as his namesake. It's natural that discussions surrounding high performance GPUs would occur.

It's really the brand loyalism that throws things off balance. But it's inevitable, it's what makes forums such as these what they are
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