EVGA’s GTX 690 Breaks World 3D Mark 11 Record

EVGA’s video card and mainboard products are mostly high-end parts and this has been proved over and over again by the fact that professional overclockers are using them to achieve new overclocking records.

Pro-overclocker TIM from Taiwan has reportedly managed to set a new 3D Mark 11 record scoring a high P20962 using a single GeForce GTX 690 video card from EVGA and the expected liquid nitrogen. The mainboard used was also EVGA-branded, namely the EVGA X79 Classified and TIM used 16 GB of DDR3-2133 memory. The i7-3960X CPU was overclocked to 4500 MHz and the score can be broken down as follows: 25,179 points for graphics, 15,213 physics and 12,412 combined.

This is truly a record, but we would really like to see it compared with the previous 3D Mark 11 record that was achieved using a single GPU Radeon HD 7970 video card and a more modest i7-2600K processor. AMD’s “Tahiti” managed to achieve the highest 3D Mark 11 Extreme Preset record on a single GPU card, but as today’s record was done using the “performance” preset, the two can’t really be compared.

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