Pro Overclocker Kingpin Sets Two Benchmark World Records With GTX Titan X

Ever since Nvidia’s GeForce GTX Titan X arrived last week, record-breaking overclocker Vince “K|NGP|N” Lucido has been hard at work pushing the high-end graphics card to its limits. The results speak for themselves - K|NGP|N has managed to more than double the stock frequency of the Geforce GTX Titan X.

Utilising the latest GM200 graphics processing unit, the GTX Titan X is no slouch, but K|NGP|N’s efforts make Nvidia’s flagship card exponentially faster than it’s ever been before. Using a reference model for the overclock, K|NGP|N increased the core speed from its stock of 1GHz (1,000MHz), all the way up to a mammoth 2,020MHz.

K|NGP|NS didn’t end there either, with the memory speed forced up to 8200MHz from a base of 7000MHz. The overclock was performed using liquid nitrogen to achieve sub-zero temperatures, making this particular GeForce GTX Titan X the fastest single-GPU card in the world.

If you want to know what all this extra power gets you then you need only look at the benchmark results. Backed up by a predictably high-end Intel Core i7-5960X, an EVGA X99 mobo and 16Gb DDR4 memory, the overclocked Titan X weight in with a 3DMark FireStrike score of 24,027, and 11,612 in 3DMark FireStrike Extreme. Put into context, these are both world records for single-GPU benchmarks.

Some mighty impressive results and, if Nvidia remains true to its word, we should see these benchmarks absolutely smashed next year when Pascal arrives. Only a few weeks ago Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said we could expect Pascal to deliver as much as 10 times the power of Maxwell.