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 is the highest observed boost clock after overclocking.



Maximum overclock of our sample is +148 MHz to the GPU's base clock (13% overclock), which results in a maximum boost clock of 1515 MHz on the GPU and 2100 MHz on the memory (20% overclock).

Overclocking is quite good, sitting in the upper end of the spectrum of the cards we've tested so far.

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 12.6%.