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 the highest observed boost clock after overclocking.
Maximum overclock of our sample is +169 MHz GPU base clock (14% overclock), which results in a maximum boost clock of 1536 MHz on the GPU and of 1995 MHz on the memory (14% overclock).
Maximum Overclock Comparison |
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| Max. GPU Clock | Max. Memory Clock |
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ASUS GTX 980 Matrix | 1536 MHz | 1995 MHz |
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Gigabyte GTX 980 G1 | 1508 MHz | 2055 MHz |
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ASUS GTX 980 STRIX | 1516 MHz | 1930 MHz |
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MSI GTX 980 Gaming | 1518 MHz | 2050 MHz |
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NVIDIA GTX 980 | 1476 MHz | 1970 MHz |
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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 12.7%.