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PUBLISHEDJanuary 8, 2020
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GeForce GTX 260 (216SP) model leaderboard record set by _12_
Overclocker _12_ broke the GeForce GTX 260 (216SP) model leaderboard record in 3DMark 2006, surpassing 512 previous results with an aggressive overclock.
Back in August 2008, things weren't as smooth for NVIDIA as they are today. AMD's Radeon HD 4000 series was putting pressure on the green team's products in the mid-range and budget market segments. In response, NVIDIA decided to release a more powerful variant of its existing GTX 260 graphics card. While the original GeForce GTX 260 featured 192 stream processors, the new card boasted 216 SPs.
By today's standards, this graphics card might well have been named the GeForce GTX 260 Ti. However, back then, Jensen Huang's company hadn't yet revisited that "Ti" suffix from the early 2000s (remember the GeForce 2 Ti?).
Ultimately, the card launched under the rather uninspired name, GeForce GTX 260 216 SP.
Beyond the increased stream processor count, that year's newcomer also boasted 72 texture units, up from 64 in the original GTX 260.
It was precisely this graphics card that a Russian enthusiast, known by the remarkably succinct alias _12_, wielded.
Using a phase-change cooling system, the overclocker managed to push the GeForce GTX 260 216SP's core clock to 1102MHz (ROP/TMU) / 2376MHz (shader domain) and its GDDR3 memory to 2880MHz. The Core i9-9000K processor, meanwhile, ran at a relatively modest 6000MHz:
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⤢ ВІДКРИТИWith these efforts, the Russian enthusiast managed to surpass 512 previous results in 3DMark 2006, setting a new record for the GeForce GTX 260 216SP model leaderboard.
Regarding the components used, it's known that the graphics card itself was an ASUS model. The motherboard also came from the same manufacturer: an ASUS ROG Maximus XI Gene. Power was supplied by the Corsair AX1600i, a highly popular PSU among enthusiasts.
Another noteworthy detail of this particular result is the use of Windows 8.1 for the benchmark. Typically, enthusiasts running older versions of 3DMark opt for the time-tested and optimized Windows XP.
However, the record holder offered a rather simple explanation for choosing a different OS:
Windows XP wasn't readily available.
Source: HWBot result page
