Nvidia’s Kepler GTX680 Overclocked at 2 GHz on EVGA’s Classified GTX 680

Professional overclockers seem to have found the secret of Kepler overclocking and Vince “k|ngp|n” Lucido managed to clock the architecture at an amazing 2002 MHz. The score reported on the ORB page is 213 points higher than what MSI’s Radeon HD 7970 Lightning achieved in the hands of the Polish overclocking team.

With a score of P16472 in 3D Mark 11 with Performance setting set, Nvidia’s Kepler managed to achieve the highest score for a single-GPU card in FutureMark’s new 3D benchmark. The card responsible for the feat is EVGA’s GTX 680 Classified with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory onboard.

The memory speed was an effective 7406 MHz, while the system’s CPU, an Intel Core i7-3960X six-core processor, was overclocked to an amazing 5.53 GHz.

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