ehabash1
Vince himself posted some overclocks he achieved recently. Its a bit disappointing actually because someone with a lightning z achieved higher clocks and currently nothing is coming close to the galax cards. Hopefully with some more time they can figure it out.
 
I DONT believe its pointless. A lot of ppl have been touting that on this forum but you might as well say the ultra and ftw3 is pointless then while your at it.
 
It WILL achieve higher clocks on air and water, thats something ppl will look for and gladly pay a premium.

Iyatsu
The kingpin is an amazing card. And i dont believe the Msi 2080ti Lightning is available publically yet! Or atleast I cannot find it!
 

Iyatsu
Where did you get the lightning? Because im showing it nowhere!
 

xblackvalorx

AdamB170

Iyatsu
Where did you get the lightning? Because im showing it nowhere!
 

UK £1425 which puts it £75 cheaper than a ftw3 :-)

What's performance like? All the YouTubers are getting results pretty similar to a good ftw3 on stock cooling.

xblackvalorx

AdamB170

xblackvalorx

AdamB170

Iyatsu
Where did you get the lightning? Because im showing it nowhere!

UK £1425 which puts it £75 cheaper than a ftw3 :-)

What's performance like? All the YouTubers are getting results pretty similar to a good ftw3 on stock cooling.

Glad you asked :-) I've just put +100 clock and +1000 memory and got 9486 in fire strike ultra which has put me at 97 in the hall of fame and I'm at no 90 in port royal. Most of the cards in the top 100 are galax on ln2 so it's doing pretty well on the stock bios on air. Beating a lot of titan rtx's too.

Nice. What's the actual clock at +100?
Have to ask thanks to the huge variance with GPU boost 4.0 lol

the_Scarlet_one
I was getting ready to post that +100 means nothing lol. +100 at 1800mhz isn’t impressive, so users really have GOT to put the actual clocks.

xblackvalorx
Cooling being adequate the lightning isn't going to sustain it's clock better then any other card.
I only run the free version of time spy because I'm not huge into benchmarks, and the sustained clock it measured was 2145, sometimes dropping to 2130.

AdamB170

the_Scarlet_one
I was getting ready to post that +100 means nothing lol. +100 at 1800mhz isn’t impressive, so users really have GOT to put the actual clocks.

It passed the benchmarks with +175 but the scores weren't as good. Peak clocks mean less and less with gpu boost. A good score comes from maintaining a high consistent frame rate. You can oc a card too much. I'd rather have a card that can score in the top 100, than one that can hit 2200 and not. +100 might not sound impressive but hitting 9486 in fsu with just +100 is. This is why we have benchmarks like 3d mark. They give a much better idea of how your card is going to perform in real life than just going for max clock frequency. 

Renegade5399

AdamB170
1 very good reason for a kingpin or lightning z is the 3 power connectors. "2080 ti's can pull 400w from the wall with just a mild oc. I've seen mine spike up to that anyhoo. Don't know how accurate gpu-z is but 2 power inputs are just stupid on these cards. 2 x 150w + 75w pcie leaves zero headroom. All 2080 ti's should have 3 power connectors.

Please see here: //xdevs.com/guide/evga_2080tixc/
 
Since it's a lot of scrolling, here's the part I'm referring to:
 
 

This RTX 2080 Ti have both 8-pins located on top edge of the PCBA. These can provide plenty of power for any normal-condition benchmarking, stress-testing and overclocking.

There is common misunderstanding to refer 6-pin or 8-pin MiniFit.JR connectors as fixed 75W or 150W power capable inputs.

Nothing can be further from truth actually, as connector port itself does not define the power cap. These power levels are nothing but just the way for how NV determine capability of used board hardware to deliver high power to the voltage regulators. It’s purely imaginary specification and have nothing to do with actual power taken from connector nor power input capability. Active circuitry on PCBA after the connector is used to measure current flowing from the connector into the VRM. This enables software, driver and NV BIOS to handle GPU clocks and reduce voltages if measured power hitting programmed BIOS limit value (which can be lower or higher value than 75/150W!).

So if we play and change circuit to adjust the calibration point, this limitation will be lifted accordingly as well. Also to make sure we are not at any physical limit of power connector itself, check Molex 26-01-3116 specifications, which have specifications both 13A per contact (16AWG wire in small connector) to 8.5A/contact (18AWG wire). This means that using common 18AWG cable, 6-pin connector specified for 17A of current (3 contacts for +12V power, 2 contacts for GND return, one contact for detect). 8-pin have 25.5A current specification (3 contacts for +12V power, 3 contacts for GND return and 2 contacts for detection). This is 204W at +12.0V level or 306W for 8-pin accordingly.

Now when somebody tells you that 6-pin can’t provide more than 75W, you know they don’t understand the topic very well. It’s not the connector itself or cable limit the power, but active regulation of GPU/BIOS/Driver according to detection of used cables and preprogrammed limits. So how actual power measured? Will see later on detail shots of the RTX 2080 Ti PCBA.