Overclocking

To find the maximum overclock of our card we used a combination of GPUTool and our benchmarking suite.
The overclocks listed here 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.



The overclocks of our card are 690 MHz core (20% overclock) and 1250 MHz Memory (24% overclock). These are some very respectable numbers. Even a not-so experienced overclocker can easily get an extra 10% performance boost out of this card.

Overclocked Performance

Using these clock frequencies we ran a quick test of Call of Duty 4 to evaluate the gains from overclocking.


The actual 3D performance gained from overclocking is 13.5%.

Temperatures

The temperatures look fairly low. I think it would have been better if Mushkin optimized their BIOS for higher temperatures and reduced fan noise. Especially in idle I can see huge potential to quieten down the card.