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 1200 MHz GPU base clock (13% overclocking) and 1985 MHz memory (13% overclock).
Overclocking works very well and reaches clocks comparable to other GTX 770 cards we reviewed before. The much more expensive GTX 770 Lightning tops out a bit higher, but the differences are very small, and random variation between samples might be higher anyway.
Maximum Overclock Comparison |
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| Max. GPU Clock | Max. Mem Clock |
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MSI GTX 770 Gaming | 1200 MHz | 1985 MHz |
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MSI GTX 770 Lightning | 1225 MHz | 2040 MHz |
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ASUS GTX 770 DC II | 1185 MHz | 2030 MHz |
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Gigabyte GTX 770 | 1225 MHz | 1960 MHz |
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Palit GTX 770 JetStream | 1205 MHz | 2035 MHz |
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NVIDIA GTX 770 | 1210 MHz | 2015 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 11.0%.