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 675 MHz core (8% overclock) and 855 MHz Memory (8% overclock). The overclocks are OK, a bit lower than I expected. Whether overclocking makes any sense on a graphics card like this is up to you to decide depending on your requirements.

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 9.4%.

Temperatures

Temperatures are good, but too low. Considering that the fan is not as quiet as it could be for this performance class, I would have preferred higher temperatures and a quieter fan.