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cards have massive headroom for
extreme overclocking. Additionally,
it would also show that overclockers
can leapfrog the performance of a
faster card in the SKU stack when
using the correct hardware.
After the two days of testing,
the overclockers set to work on
the world records in 3DMark, and
achieved remarkable results.
Among them, rsannino from Italy
used a single GALAX GeForce RTX
2080 Ti Hall of Fame OC Lab graphics
card together with the Intel Xeon
W-3175X processor and C621
motherboard. After almost ten
hours of continuously tweaking the
setup he finally scored 10,521 points
in the 3DMark Time Spy Extreme
with a GPU core frequency of 2,730
MHz and a CPU frequency of 5.6GHz.
The score not only successfully
surpassed the record held by the
NVIDIA TITAN RTX, but he was also
the first overclocker in the world to
exceed 10,000 points in the 3DMark
Time Spy. That is quite a milestone
and no small feat.
Next up were Phil and OGS from
Team Greece, who also scored some
brilliant results. They too used the
RTX 2080 Ti HOF OC Lab graphics
card, which they successfully
overclocked to a core frequency
of 2,805 MHz and the memory
at 2,125 MHz. This increased the
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“AFTER THE TWO
DAYS OF TESTING, THE
OVERCLOCKERS SET TO WORK
ON THE WORLD RECORDS
IN 3DMARK, AND ACHIEVED
REMARKABLE RESULTS.”
performance of the card by more
than 100% when compared to
running it at its reference base
speed of 1,350 MHz. The card was
paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K
and Z390 motherboard, and they
managed to score 24,187 points in
the 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme.
This was indeed enough to break
the world record held by the NVIDIA
TITAN RTX. As importantly (and
if not more so, to be honest), this
is the first GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
graphics card to successfully break
through the 2,800 MHz barrier with
stability to complete a full run of
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme.
Swedish master Rauf also secured
some time under the spotlight,
using a single RTX 2080 Ti HOF OC
Lab graphics card running at 2,745
MHz on the GPU core for a score of
12,363 in 3DMark's latest ray tracing
benchmark, Port Royal. This too
was enough to uncrown the NVIDIA
TITAN RTX and solidify the brilliance
of the GALAX graphics card.
Chinese overclocker ZeRO_Dan
shone like diamond during the
event, using GALAX Hall of Fame
memory running at DDR4-4758
CL14 and an Intel Core i9-9900K
at 7,038 MHz to set a GeekBench
3 world record of 55,881 points.
This score surpassed the existing
world record, which was previously