14 DAY TRIAL // The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is the best single-GPU graphics card in NVIDIA's lineup, not counting the GTX Titan Black, but EVGA and a certain pair of overclockers were not satisfied with the native performance.
Indeed, they were not satisfied even with the outright overkill factory overclock of the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified K|NGP|N Edition graphics card, so they set about doubling it.
They didn't quite manage to speed up the K|NGP|N Edition by a factor or two, but they did take the frequency beyond double compared to the reference adapter from NVIDIA.
In the end, they (they being EVGA, Vince "K|NGP|N" Lucido and Illya "Tin" Tsemenko) managed to establish a new world record, pushing the graphics processing unit's clock to 2,025 MHz. At that level, the video board was able to score 8,793 points in the 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme benchmark.
To give the necessary perspective, the normal, reference GeForce GTX 780 Ti video card from NVIDIA has a base GPU clock of 875 MHz and a GPU Boost maximum of 928 MHz.
With its 2,880 CUDA cores, 3 GB of 7 GHz GDDR5 VRAM, and 384-bit interface, it can breeze through any game at any resolution, even 3840 x 2160 pixels (4K UHD) and on multiple monitors if owners are so inclined. 3D doesn't visibly impact game or video program/editor performance either.
The EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified K|NGP|N Edition swaps the normal cooler for a dual-fan, own-brand one, in addition to pushing the GPU faster than normal straight out of the factory.
The base GPU frequency is, thus, of 1,072 MHz, while the top clock is of 1,137 MHz (and unlikely to ever be needed really, at least for now).
As such, the 2,025 MHz speed achieved by Vince "K|NGP|N" Lucido and Illya "Tin" Tsemenko is as overkill as you can possible get on the video market.
It definitely made a statement though, which was all EVGA was banking on. Few things are as effective in promoting a device on the high-end front as a successful OC run, especially when said session uses hardware exclusively from the same company.
Case in point, the test bench that enabled the new GPU OC world record used an EVGA X79 Dark motherboard and an EVGA Power Supply in addition to the EVGA video board mentioned before. All that is left is to see if anyone (a rival company perhaps) challenges the record anytime soon.
