MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4 GB Review 48

MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4 GB Review

Temperatures & Clock Profiles »

Overclocking

Overclocking results listed in this section are achieved with the default fan and voltage settings as defined in the VGA BIOS. We choose this approach as it is the most realistic scenario for the majority of users.

Every 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. Boost is already factored into our resulting clocks for AMD cards because of the way their technology works.



Maximum overclock of our sample is 1300 MHz GPU base clock (17% overclock) and 1980 MHz memory (13% overclock).

Very good overclocking potential that's comparable to other GTX 970 cards we have reviewed before.

Maximum Overclock Comparison
Max. GPU ClockMax. Memory Clock
MSI GTX 970 Gaming1300 MHz1980 MHz
Colorful iGame GTX 9701350 MHz2060 MHz
Palit GTX 970 JetStream1230 MHz1940 MHz
ASUS GTX 970 STRIX OC1290 MHz1990 MHz
EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX1315 MHz2010 MHz
NVIDIA GTX 9801350 MHz1970 MHz
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 14.0%.
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