Overclockers set astounding world record with Nvidia GTX780

Overclocking is still a dark art to most and the magic that computer hardware can do in the hands of the skilled few is mind-blowing. Blowing minds is pretty much what overclocking is all about, because the scores that HKPEC – a group of completely mad overclockers from Hong Kong – managed to get from their Nvidia GTX780 left me speechless for about five minutes.

HKPEC, composed of veterans Mad222, Stephen Yeong, John Lam, and Mr. Wong, used LN2 for their overclock and heavily modified both the GTX780’s BIOS and the card itself to deliver more power to it. Using a Intel Core i7-3960X, an ASUS Rampage IV Extreme and 16GB of memory, they scored an impressive 41,180marks in 3DMark’s graphics tests.

HKPEC Nvidia GTX780 overclock

HKPEC Nvidia GTX780 overclock validation

For reference, a stock-standard Geforce GTX Titan scores just about 27,000 marks. AMD’s Radeon HD7990 kicks around in the region of 32,000 marks, both of which are way under what this GTX780 achieved. The core clocks were raised to 1855.2MHz and the memory was overclocked to 7.4GHz. This looks like one of those samples that have been binned over a long period of time to figure out which one is best for their record attempt.

The Core i7-3960X was also overclocked quite highly, sitting pretty at 5.5GHz with all six cores enabled. Even the memory speed, running at DDR3-2400MHz with 10-12-18-28 timings is a good achievement. This is, however, only the first overclock of this kind. If Nvidia manages to refine their manufacturing process in the future, we’ll see even higher scores and even more insane methods to extract performance out of the GK110 Kepler core.