Monday, April 8th 2019
EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti KINGPIN Out Now
EVGA today released its flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti KINGPIN, designed by the legendary Vince "KINGPIN" Lucido himself. Unlike past generations of KINGPIN-branded flagships by EVGA, this card features an all-in-one closed-loop liquid cooling solution that's factory-fitted. The cold-plate of this CLC cools the GPU and memory, while a dedicated copper heatsink pulls heat from the VRM, and is ventilated by a 100 mm fan. Dissipating heat is a 240 mm x 120 mm radiator with two included high air-flow fans. For DIY liquid-cooling enthusiasts, EVGA is separately selling the Hydro Copper full-coverage water-block for this card. KINGPIN Cooling may offer LN2 evaporators for this card.
The PCB of this card has been designed by legendary volt-modder Illya "TiN" Tsemenko, and is an outstanding 12-layer thick, with high dispersion of electrical and signal traces to minimize interference. A 16+3 phase VRM powers the beast, made up of the most expensive components the industry has to offer. The VRM pulls power from three 8-pin PCIe power connectors.
You can manually switch between three BIOS ROMs on the card to recover from bad flashing or store your secret sauce better. An OLED display on the card's top shows real-time monitoring and diagnostics of the card, and can be programmed to show just about anything. You also get EVBot support and Probe-IT, headers to watch the card's various voltage domains externally, without sticking your multimeter around the PCB.
The factory-overclock may seem nothing to write home about in this price-category, with 1770 MHz GPU Boost, and an untouched 14 Gbps memory, however nobody buys this card for its out-of-the-box frequencies. Available exclusively to EVGA Associate Members, the RTX 2080 Ti KINGPIN is priced at USD $1,900.
The PCB of this card has been designed by legendary volt-modder Illya "TiN" Tsemenko, and is an outstanding 12-layer thick, with high dispersion of electrical and signal traces to minimize interference. A 16+3 phase VRM powers the beast, made up of the most expensive components the industry has to offer. The VRM pulls power from three 8-pin PCIe power connectors.
The factory-overclock may seem nothing to write home about in this price-category, with 1770 MHz GPU Boost, and an untouched 14 Gbps memory, however nobody buys this card for its out-of-the-box frequencies. Available exclusively to EVGA Associate Members, the RTX 2080 Ti KINGPIN is priced at USD $1,900.
24 Comments on EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti KINGPIN Out Now
“Money” is never the problem. The problem is “no money”.
With shrink to 7nm in combination with major architectural improvements there will be a significant increase of Ray Tracing performance when 7nm hits the streets.
it's not gonna drop in price as much as titans do.
All chips are cherry picks.
a) Is Part No. in partner program whereby EVGA agrees to not use the brand name "Classified" on any competitor products ?
b) Install BIOS with allowable OC utility slider limits of +xx% on power and + yy% on voltage
They may have done this anyway but this is what partner program was intended to accomplish.
The catch here however is the MSI Lightning 20180 Ti OC'd managed +10 fps (4.4%) over the next closest card (MSI Gaming X Trio) tested by TPU. It accomplished this feat even tho TPU managed higher (+15 to 45) core OCs 5 other cards. Highest game performance is no longer dependent on having the highest core and memory OCs.. Will you pay that much more for the Lightning / Classified over the FTW / Gaming X ? nVidia clamped down both physically and legally with regard to what AIB vendors can do ... I don't see them investing in loosening those restrictions without branding protection.
I'm against investing in Turing, but if prices of high end hardware is not much for some people than it's little stupid to invest in any model of high end hardware.
Something little exotic and unique always give more satisfaction. Big win here is AIO Cooler. I don't support any more investing in graphic cards without some form of liquid cooling.
Maybe because I use them longer time and when they start to suffer to deliver playable fps temps are higher than month after purchase.
The point of being an Associate Member is to shill.
It's not going to stop a person buying more than one to hold on to as a collectors piece until the price rises, so why bother.
Edit, capitalized I
I really want one but it's hard to justify paying a $600 premium over a founder's edition + EKWB full block for realistically no noticable gain in day-to-day performance.
I read reviews about very good performance of EVGA CLC AIO and great experience of people with EVGA Hybrid series.
This should be even better because dual radiator could improve temps for 10C.
No one would force me to buy GPU without waterblock of AIO any more, no one.
Because I want to heat go instantly out of case, I don't believe to case fans for removing so much heat as GPU and CPU produce.
No doubt this is best RTX2080Ti on market.
Before AIO coolers are louder. No with good fans as CORSAIR ML120 PRO and Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM they don't need to be loud at all.
And that's final seal and crown for best graphic card model 2019/Turing.
I swear rather one K|NGP|N Hydro Copper than two Founders.
Beautiful card, far more than dual triple cooler, extreme power section, great cooling on both models, power
cables hidden on back of card, temperature sensor.
This should be objective of every enthusiasts with deeper pocket who think between models of RTX2080Ti.
You can say what you want but this is king for Turing generation and best possible decision to abandon triple fan option and to go with AIO system or Hydro Copper.