Overclocking

To find the maximum overclock of our card we used a combination of AMD internal overclocking software and our benchmarking suite.



The final overclocks of our card are 760 MHz core (32% overclock) and 1105 MHz Memory (23% overclock). Wow! Those overclocks are incredible. During testing I actually thought my overclocking program is broken. If this overclock is actually what you will see on retail cards then you could get one of these babies and overclock it close to HD 4870 levels, while saving a ton of money.

Temperatures

While the idle temperature is quite low, the load temperatures are rather high (but still far from too hot). It seems that AMD favors a silent card over low temperature, which is a good thing in my opinion. All modern graphics cards are designed to withstand operating temperatures of up to 120°C. However, nobody dares to go close to that because users could burn their fingers which could result in a lawsuit. Also high temperatures are said to reduce the life time of the silicon.