Nvidia hit a home run with its Pascal GPU architecture which is a savory combination of performance and power efficiency. At the finals of the GALAX GOC 2016 overclocking series in China, several teams of 'clockers were able to push the GP106 but the chip used in the GTX 1060 cards which left to close to 3GHz, while another team burst right through that ceiling.

Depending on the part, there can be some impressive overclocking headroom available. That was certainly case when teams of overclockers were armed with a GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 Hall of Fame Edition graphics cards pushed Pascal nearly doubling the card's base clock.

Three different teams managed to push this card beyond 3GHz. At that speed, the card's pixel fill rate was 132.2GPixel/s, which is higher than a stock clocked GeForce GTX 1080, while its texture fill rate, 220.4GTexel/s, has topped that of a GeForce GTX 1070.

Pascal GPUs are already some of the highest clocked graphics chips in existence. It requires a willing card, overclocking know-how, and lots of liquid nitrogen-nobody's pushing Pascal to 3GHz on air.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 HOF is proving to be a popular part among overclockers to break the world records. The card in question was the Galaxy GTX 1060 HOF model, which as MobiPicker says, was the same card that broke the 2.8GHz core barrier last month. This is a immense overclock, with the stock core clock sitting at just 1,620MHz - though it does boost up to 1,847MHz.

At stock, the GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 HOF features a 1,620MHz base and 1,847MHz boost clockspeed. It has 6GB of GDDR5 memory that is running at 8,000MHz on a 192-bit bus, giving it 192GB/s of memory bandwidth. Power to the chip is provided by 8-pin and 6-pin PCIe power connectors.

DIA is planning to introduce a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphic cards based on Pascal, as revealed by a recent job listing on linkedIn. However rumor says that the Nvidia will announce the card at the Consumer Electronics Show next month.

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