The Titan RTX is stupidly expensive and more powerful than almost any gamer needs, but if you want that kind of performance, there is a way to get it without quite such a ridiculous cost. The custom EVGA Kingpin Edition 2080 Ti graphics card is built with a hybrid cooler set up — watercooling the core and aircooling the VRM — to deliver a massive boost to the card's clock speed, making it capable of beating Titan RTX scores in some of the most intensive of benchmarks.
Kingpin has showcased the extreme potential of Nvidia's 2080 Ti before, by using liquid nitrogen to super cool the card down to at the time, unhead of levels of performance — hitting 2.4GHz on the core. However, with further tweaking of the power tables, upgrading the cooling to something more day to day, Kingpin has now acheived a core overclock of 2.7GHz and a memory overclock of 8509 MHz or 17018 MHz effective . That doesn't quite break the record, but for day to day frequencies that's huge and it's why the card will likely be the most powerful 2080 Ti ever released when it debuts in the coming months.
Each card comes with a custom shroud, and bespoke cooling solution. There's a 240mm AIO water cooler on the core, and a huge copper heatsink on the VRM. That keeps things at comfortable temperatures, but to deliver the power this card needs to hit these levels, Kingpin upgraded the VRM to a 19 phase design, requiring three 8pin power connectors. The card alone can draw more than 500w at the wall, so it won't be cheap to run, but if you want ultimate power without the stupid Titan RTX pricing, this could be the card to get.
No word on actual release dates or pricing just yet, but we expect this one to retail somewhere north of $1,500 (still far cheaper than a Titan RTX) and see a wider release before the middle of the year.
Thanks WCCFTech