Overclocking
The overclocks 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, that's why our results here can only serve as a guideline for what you can expect from your card.
Maximum stable clocks of our card are 1260 MHz core (15% overclock) and 1600 MHz Memory (33% overclock).
Overclocking potential is good, slightly higher than the MSI HD 7870 Twin Frozr II, on the same level as the ASUS HD 7870 DC II.
Maximum Overclock Comparison |
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| Max. GPU Clock | Max. Memory Clock |
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MSI HD 7870 HAWK | 1260 MHz | 1600 MHz |
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MSI HD 7870 Twin Frozr | 1230 MHz | 1615 MHz |
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NVIDIA GTX 680 | 1147 MHz | 1833 MHz |
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ASUS HD 7870 DirectCU II | 1260 MHz | 1620 MHz |
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AMD HD 7870 | 1205 MHz | 1520 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,
reached 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 20.2%.