With my favourite pass time being taking hardware to the absolute limit. I was more than happy to be given the opportunity to test a card designed with the pursuit of benching records as I primary criteria. Enter EVGA's Kingpin Edition Nvidia 780 Ti. This card has a no compromise design with massively over engineered PWM and an uprated Classified style cooler to start off the very impressive list of features. Extra to the Classified cooler the KPE Ti has a full backplate sporting the Kingpin logo this back plate adding to rigidity and improving cooling even further.
For the gamer this card offers very high clocks out of the box and for the bench marker switch to LN2 Bios attach your EVbot and you have limitless options. This includes tuning PWM frequency for Core and mem as well as totally removing OCP/OVP and controlling Core, Mems and PLL volts.
Interestingly this is the only high end production Ti available with Samsung memory. Samsung IC was chosen by Kingpin when designing the card for both its efficiency and its performance at both ambient and sub zero temperatures. Any other IC needs around 50mhz more to match the performance of Samsung whilst Samsung does not typically exhibit cold bug issues. So memory clocks on air can also remain high on Ln2 cooling. What this mean in real world terms is if for example a hynix card doing 2000mhz memory will be matched by Samsung doing 1950mhz.
Lets now take a look at the card:
and here it is making high frame rates in my test rig:
The card comes with the Digital Multi Meter cables as standard so you can monitor voltages conatantly. I set up as always to test the card at 1.21v under load which is my standard overclocking test voltage for Air cooling. You will also notice this card needs 3 PCI X connectors. 1 x 6 pin and 2 x 8 Pin feeding the card with serious juice.
Lets now see how the card performed through the 8Pack torture suite.
Test System
Intel 4930K
ASUS RIVE BE Motherboard
16GB DDR3 Team Group
Antec 1200w PSUWin7 64 Bit Pro
Nvidia Driver 335.23
Heaven Valley
Heaven
Fire Strike
Fire Strike X
3D Mark 11
As you guys can see from the results the KPE Ti reached the best overclock on the core I have seen of any card I have tested so far on Air cooling with 1340mhz Core clock being totally stable. The mems also reached a good 1975mhz which with Samsung IC's efficiency is equivalent to 2025 on any other Ti.
Interns of cooling late 60's - early 70's was what could be seen during most benchmark runs. Peak temp I saw throughout testing was 74C. This cooler does an excellent job while remaining quiet in operation. Its 3C worse than the DC2 by ASUS but this is a very small margin indeed.
To summarise the air cooled overclocked results of the KPE 780Ti by EVGA are the best of any Ti I have tested. This is a very fiercely contested segment of the market with many hero products from several respected brands so well done Kingpin and well done EVGA. The only real reservation I have about this product is the quantities EVGA can supply, otherwise this product comes with my recommendation.
Lets look now at Xtreme cooling performance!! I actually tested the card on Ln2 before air lol so keen was I to put it to the sword.
Here is the card prepared for Ln2. With its unique VRM only heatsink which is a great idea.
and pics of the card on test.
(Forgot the probe cables so improvised with tape
)
Here is the first result 3D mark Vantage single card World Record with EVGA 780 Ti KPE at 1875mhz Core clock and 1900 memory clocks
http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/5007791
and HWbot link: http://hwbot.org/submission/2544972...___performance_geforce_gtx_780_ti_75964_marks
This card is rocking on Air and Flying on LN2!!!! More LN2 testing to follow...................
For the gamer this card offers very high clocks out of the box and for the bench marker switch to LN2 Bios attach your EVbot and you have limitless options. This includes tuning PWM frequency for Core and mem as well as totally removing OCP/OVP and controlling Core, Mems and PLL volts.
Interestingly this is the only high end production Ti available with Samsung memory. Samsung IC was chosen by Kingpin when designing the card for both its efficiency and its performance at both ambient and sub zero temperatures. Any other IC needs around 50mhz more to match the performance of Samsung whilst Samsung does not typically exhibit cold bug issues. So memory clocks on air can also remain high on Ln2 cooling. What this mean in real world terms is if for example a hynix card doing 2000mhz memory will be matched by Samsung doing 1950mhz.
Lets now take a look at the card:
and here it is making high frame rates in my test rig:
The card comes with the Digital Multi Meter cables as standard so you can monitor voltages conatantly. I set up as always to test the card at 1.21v under load which is my standard overclocking test voltage for Air cooling. You will also notice this card needs 3 PCI X connectors. 1 x 6 pin and 2 x 8 Pin feeding the card with serious juice.
Lets now see how the card performed through the 8Pack torture suite.
Test System
Intel 4930K
ASUS RIVE BE Motherboard
16GB DDR3 Team Group
Antec 1200w PSUWin7 64 Bit Pro
Nvidia Driver 335.23
Heaven Valley
Heaven
Fire Strike
Fire Strike X
3D Mark 11
As you guys can see from the results the KPE Ti reached the best overclock on the core I have seen of any card I have tested so far on Air cooling with 1340mhz Core clock being totally stable. The mems also reached a good 1975mhz which with Samsung IC's efficiency is equivalent to 2025 on any other Ti.
Interns of cooling late 60's - early 70's was what could be seen during most benchmark runs. Peak temp I saw throughout testing was 74C. This cooler does an excellent job while remaining quiet in operation. Its 3C worse than the DC2 by ASUS but this is a very small margin indeed.
To summarise the air cooled overclocked results of the KPE 780Ti by EVGA are the best of any Ti I have tested. This is a very fiercely contested segment of the market with many hero products from several respected brands so well done Kingpin and well done EVGA. The only real reservation I have about this product is the quantities EVGA can supply, otherwise this product comes with my recommendation.
Lets look now at Xtreme cooling performance!! I actually tested the card on Ln2 before air lol so keen was I to put it to the sword.
Here is the card prepared for Ln2. With its unique VRM only heatsink which is a great idea.
and pics of the card on test.
(Forgot the probe cables so improvised with tape
)Here is the first result 3D mark Vantage single card World Record with EVGA 780 Ti KPE at 1875mhz Core clock and 1900 memory clocks
http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/5007791
and HWbot link: http://hwbot.org/submission/2544972...___performance_geforce_gtx_780_ti_75964_marks
This card is rocking on Air and Flying on LN2!!!! More LN2 testing to follow...................
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