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.



Maximum overclock of our sample is 1095 MHz on the GPU, a 10% overclock. GPU overclocking potential is quite slim. AMD hinted at much higher overclocking potential in their briefings, so I'm a bit disappointed. OC potential of the Fury non-X is also quite a bit lower than with the Fury X reference design we reviewed.

The HBM memory can not be overclocked at this time. Catalyst Control Center has no options for memory overclocking, and while there seem to be methods to do so, they aren't 100% reliable, so overclockers will have to wait.

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 6.4%.