Overclocking

To find the maximum overclock of our card we used a combination of ATITool's successor (work in progress) and our benchmarking suite.



The final overclocks of our card are 832 MHz core (10% overclock) and 1199 MHz Memory (4% overclock). While the memory overclock was to be expected, because the memory chips are specified to run at 1200 MHz, the core overclock is very nice. Even on a pre-overclocked product, we could increase the clock by another 10% (at least on our sample).
When our overclocks are put in perspective to the clocks of the NVIDIA 9800 GTX+ reference design (738/1100), the margin becomes even bigger: 13% and 9%.

Temperatures

Operating temperatures are low in both idle and under load. Overclocking the card resulted in no measureable temperature increase (<1°C).