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.



Maximum overclock on our card is 1050 MHz GPU clock (22% overclocking) and 1865 MHz memory (24% overclock).

The GTX 780 overclocks really well and reaches 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.

Just like the GTX Titan, the GTX 780 will reduce performance to keep the card at acceptable temperatures once it reached 80°C. The Gigabyte GTX 780 OC that we also reviewed today never reached that temperature, which is why it ended up delivering a higher performance when overclocked (and in general).

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 17.8%.