Overclocking

The overclocking results listed in this section were achieved with the default fan and voltage settings as defined in the VGA BIOS. Please note that every single sample overclocks differently which is why our results here can only serve as a guideline for what you can expect from your card.

On NVIDIA cards with boost, the values discussed here are base clock. Boost will further increase clocks.



Maximum overclock on our card is 1065 MHz GPU base clock (10% overclocking) and 1855 MHz memory (24% overclock).

The GTX 780 overclocks really well, reaching clocks that go beyond those of an overclocked GTX Titan. Memory overclocks just as well and makes this card an excellent GTX Titan alternative for overclockers who just can't spend $1000.

EVGA's card overclocks the best out of the cards we have reviewed so far, but the difference is rather small. What is important to highlight here is that EVGA's cooler design allows the card to deliver higher performance anyways. Boost 2.0 will reduce clocks once the card reaches 80°C, which happens on the NVIDIA reference design but never with the EVGA GTX 780 SC.

Important: Each GPU (including each GPU of the same make and model) will overclock slightly
differently based on random production variances. This table just serves to provide a list of typical
overclocks for similar cards, determined during TPU review.

Overclocked Performance

Using these clock frequencies, we ran a quick test of Battlefield 3 to evaluate the gains from overclocking.


Actual 3D performance gained from overclocking is 11.3%.