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.Below, you can see the full video interview by Gamers Nexus.
196 Comments on Legendary Overclocker KINGPIN Leaves EVGA and Joins PNY to Develop Next-Generation GPUs for Extreme OC
With the amount of resources Kingpin said is needed just to come up with his card is crazy. 2+ added engineers and added components plus his cut. I wish he would make a Kingpin lite card for us non extreme overclockers or hopeful his engineering will trickle down to their other cards. Asus did assume EVGA's Kingpin role with their $3200 4090 Matrix platinum. Yes I agree if priced identical or even slightly higher Asus is the better option.
In my opinion PNY is better than Galax and even they have an extreme overclockers 4090 called Hall of fame.
If Kingpin can come up with a better card and superior cooler then there's plenty of room for pricing against the probable pricing of the ASUS 5090 top end card.
Those are not the things to remember the company by. Kingpin aint shit on his own. They better hire a good engineer, because that's what has held him up for the past decade.
You think NVIDIA makes high end GPUs for 10 people ? 4090 is literally more present in gaming systems than AMD last gen entry level ....
The main reasons that AMD has such a small presence in mainstream gaming is due to Nvidia brand loyalty and their better handling of ray tracing. It has nothing to do with a lack of competition with Nvidia flagships. There has been an article here and elsewhere where AMD says that nextgen GPUs will be much better at handling ray tracing. We'll see if they are or not.
If AMD does offer significantly better ray tracing in mainstream GPUs then would you still say they sacrificed their GPU division.
And at the end of the day AMD is a business like all the others. They want profits. They went from losing hundreds of millions of dollars yearly and insurmountable debt to profitability by focusing on their CPU division. That is their success and obviously that is what they will stick to.
But I can tell you this, the 4090 outsold all 4070 and 4080 models combined and also the entire AMD stack this generation top to bottom.
First and foremost the most adopted GPU ( 3060 ) sits at 6% so 1% for an ultra high end GPU is HUGE. Secondly Steam counts 132 million monthly active users , so that 1% represents over 1,3M users ...
At an MRSP of 1600$ ( most 4090s sold way above that ) this represents a 2 billion revenue from the 4090 alone. AMD quarter revenue for gaming ( includes Radeon and console GPUs ) is less than a billion .... their entire data center quarter revenue ( includes Instinc GPUs and EPYC CPUs ) is 2.3 billion ... let that sink in.
Yet you sit here telling me than this type of revenue is chump change money for AMD :kookoo: ? Hold on we went from ray tracing being a gimmick at best to ray tracing being the reason Radeon has been relegated to 10% market share ?
Come on, ray tracing has nothing to with this nor does brand loyalty .You are confusing brand loyalty with brand recongition. Pretty safe to say that mid-high end users have 0 brand loyalty they pay for whatever is best and this is where brand recognition comes to play . NVIDIA have made a name for themselves by being the reference in terms of performance and you only do that through flagship products such as the 4090, obviously this recognition trickles down to lower segments and the reason why halo products are important .
How did AMD gain market share in the CPU space , by pushing Intel untill they took away the performance crown from them or by handing Intel the performance crown on a silver platter ? You know the answer so yeah the strategy to gain market share is obvious and safe to say capitulation ain't it . Things will only get worse for Radeon following their current strategy !
On the topic: Let's see what it will be...
PNY's now self-developed graphics cards have not given such a good picture with the subsequently changed fan curve.
Unfortunately, the tech press didn't even take a closer look at the issue.
Looks pretty funny when all of AMD's exclusive partners are all at the bottom of the chart, and then there is Intel
Overrated.