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 1090 MHz GPU base clock (23% overclocking) and 1855 MHz memory (24% overclock).
Overclocking works very well and reaches the highest clocks of all GTX 780 cards we tested so far. When looking at overclocked performance, though, we see that the EVGA GTX 780 reaches slightly higher FPS despite a lower frequency.
Maximum Overclock Comparison |
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| Max. GPU Clock | Max. Mem Clock | Max. OC Perf. |
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ASUS GTX 780 DC II | 1090 MHz | 1855 MHz | 127.7 FPS |
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EVGA GTX 780 SC | 1065 MHz | 1855 MHz | 127.9 FPS |
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GIGABYTE GTX 780 | 1035 MHz | 1850 MHz | 122.5 FPS |
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NVIDIA GTX 780 | 1050 MHz | 1865 MHz | 113.6 FPS |
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NVIDIA GTX TITAN | 990 MHz | 1780 MHz | 128.7 FPS |
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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.
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 20.0%.