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 935 MHz core (12% overclock) and 1140 MHz Memory (11% overclock). Pretty nice overclocking potential on both GPU and memory. This makes me wonder why Palit did not choose higher clocks out of the box for their card, as the card can easily handle the increased clocks.

Overclocked Performance

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


Actual 3D performance gained from overclocking is 10.2%.

Temperatures

Idle temperatures of the card are super low. Under load temperatures increase but stay well below what we've seen from other GTX 560 Ti cards, including the reference design. Combined with the low noise output this a well optimized fine-tuned combination.

Clock Profiles

Modern graphics cards have several clock profiles that are selected to balance power draw and performance requirements.
The following table lists the clock settings for important performance scenarios and the GPU voltage that we measured. We measure on the pins of a coil or capacitor near the GPU voltage regulator.