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GALAX
Mounting a challenge to the TITAN RTX
HALL OF FAME SERIES CONTINUE TO SMASH OVERCLOCKING WORLD RECORDS
G
ALAX has been sparing
no effort to promote the
development of computer
hardware, and has been actively
developing overclocking activities
for more than ten years. The
GALAX Overclocking Lab is
where the magic happens, with
overclockers including GALAX's
own Mad Tse battling it out for
world records using the best
hardware available at the time.
Each year, GALAX invites the
best overclockers from around the
world to vie for as many records
as possible with nearly limitless
resources at their disposal. It isn't
just in the name of fun and games,
however, as developments in the OC
Lab often lead to improvements in
the production of future products.
Through March 22 to March
30 2019, GALAX OC Lab invited
overclockers from countries
including China, Greece, Sweden,
Italy, and Brazil to a 9-day event.
The main goal was to beat
records currently held by the
NVIDIA TITAN RTX using GALAX
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Hall of Fame
graphics cards, thereby showing
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that the products they have to
offer can beat the fastest card in
NVIDIA's current SKU stack.
HWBOT and 3DMark Hall of Fame
leader board positions were in the
overclockers' sites as they set out
to dethrone the current king of
GPUs. A culmination of more than
a decade's experience in extreme
overclocking went into the design
of the GTX 2080 Ti HOF card, but
would that be enough to beat a card
which is about 20% faster in theory?
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX certainly
has the GTX 2080 Ti beaten on
paper, sporting 4,608 CUDA cores
compared to the lesser card's 4,352.
The GTX 2080 Ti does
come with a much more palatable
price tag starting at US$ 1,200
compared to the TITAN RTX's
US$ 3,000, so it would be quite
a feat to beat a card that has a price
almost three times higher.
In addition to the GTX 2080 Ti HOF
graphics cards, the top overclockers
from each country had use of GALAX
Hall of Fame OC Lab DDR4 memory,
and a slew of other hardware for
their overclocking platforms.
“THE NVIDIA TITAN RTX
CERTAINLY HAS THE GTX 2080 TI
BEATEN ON PAPER, SPORTING
4,608 CUDA CORES COMPARED
TO THE LESSER CARD'S 4,352.”