3DMark 11 overclocking record broken with HD 7970 Lightning

At an overclocking event organized by MSI, a Polish overclocker broke the 3DMark 11 record with an HD 7970 Lightning. Recently, the record with four video cards in 3DMark 11 was also broken.

During the annual overclocking event, Masters of Overclocking Arena, a number of overclockers got to work with an HD 7970 Lightning from MSI. The video card was specially developed to be overclocked using liquid nitrogen and it seems to have succeeded. The Pool Ryba managed to overclock its HD 7970 Lightning to 1750MHz, while the memory ticked at no less than 8000MHz. The CPU was also considerably overclocked, which all in all resulted in a 3DMark 11 P score of 16,256 points. In comparison: a normal HD 7970 has clock speeds of 925MHz for the GPU and 5500MHz for the memory.

During the Computex show, Chinese overclocker J. Lin broke the record in 3DMark11 using four HD 7970s from HIS, which were cooled by a mix of water cooling and liquid nitrogen. The four HD 7970s had a clock speed of 1410MHz, while the memory did its job at 7640MHz. The cpu, a 3960X, was overclocked to over 5.6GHz, and together with the video cards achieved a P-score of 33,151 points. For now, all 3DMark11 records are held by HD 7970s and Nvidia’s GTX 680 is only in fifth place.