Nvidia's new RTX-series of graphics cards might not have exactly mind blowing performance when compared to their price, in most cases jumping just 20-30 percent over the performance of their predecessors -- but that doesn't mean they aren't incredibly capable. In the case of the 2080 Ti, with a little liquid nitrogen, one overclocker has been able to push it to unprecedented heights, taking all of the top score spots on 3Dmark in the process.
Kingpin is a long time overclocker and has retained a top position on a number of HWBot rankings over the years. In this case he used a 2080 Ti to dominate the 3Dmark rankings. Pairing it up with an Intel Core i9-7980XE, an EVGA X299 Dark motherboard, and 32GB of G.Skill Trident Z DDR4. The CPU was overclocked to 5.5GHz on all 18 cores and the memory was pushed to 3,800MHz in quad-channel mode.
However, it was the GPU overclock which was what delivered such monstrous benchmarking scores. Using a heavily padded GPU pot filled with liquid nitrogen. That super-sub cooling made it possible to push the 2080 Ti's core clock from a standard boosted speed of 1,545 MHz to a monstrous 2,415MHz. Kingpin also pushed the memory up to 8,633 MHz across all 11GB of its GDDR6 chips.
All of that lead to some truly amazing benchmark scores. In Time Spy on Extreme settings, this setup delivered a score of 9,312. That's a full 500 points higher than the next-highest score which was achieved with a Titan V GPU. Indeed, every other top 35 score uses a Titan V.
In Fire Strike Extreme, Kingpin managed a score of 21,421, beating out the second place score of 19,191 by a huge margin. In Fire Strike Ultra, he managed 11,081, beating out the 9,960 score of second place by another big gap.
While few of us will ever achieve such scores and you certainly can't run liquid nitrogen as a day to day cooling option, it does show that this new generation of cards has huge potential for overclocking and should mean those with customer watercooling or phase loops stand to hit high overclocks if they put the time in.
Image source: Kingpin
