It’s been literally a week since k|ngp|n took down the World Record for 3DMark Fire Strike. Today he’s gone and broken it again, putting even more light between himself and the rest of the world’s mere mortals. Last week he claimed top spot with a score of 47,621 marks. Today he has pushed that out to nudge just past the 48K barrier, scoring 48,070 marks.

The rig used to break the World Record was of course almost identical to the monster he had running last week. The machine is based around an Intel Core 6950X mounted on an EVGA X99 FTW-K motherboard. The LN2 chip was pushed just a little further than in last week's session, hitting 5,250MHz, a massive +75.00% beyond stock settings (and 0.77% faster than last week). The graphics array used remains the same too, with four Nvidia Titan X Pascal cards.

Interestingly the GPUs were configured at identical clock speeds as last week’s run, buzzing along at 2,200MHz (+55.26%), but in terms of memory today’s score has a frequency of 1,450MHz, which is a snip slower than what we saw last week when it was set at 1,470MHz. Other components of note include a G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 kit and SuperNOVA NEX 1,600 Watt power supply.

The score puts k|ngp|n way ahead of the pack. The nearest competitor is Sweden’s Elmor who managed a score of 46,873 using four GTX 980 Ti cards. How much performance can be squeezed out of the Titan XP cards? Only time will tell. I have a feeling I may be writing something similar to this story a week from now. Be sure to watch this space.

You can check out the new World record score from k|ngp|n here, as well as the full 3DMark Fire Strike rankings here.