Overclocking

Although this card is built mainly for overclocking with extreme cooling methods, we still wanted to see how it would fare with our usual methodology. The default maximum power and temperature limits in Afterburner are 116 percent and 90°C respectively, so we set it to these and proceeded.

Even with all four voltage sliders at maximum, we did not see overclocking potential beyond what we have on other cards. We added 70MHz to the core, giving us rated base and boost clocks of 1,652MHz and 1,765MHz respectively. The in-game boost clock was actually hovering around 2,040MHz, similar to what we've seen elsewhere.

We did at least manage to get the memory to 12.1Gbps, and it was very nearly stable at 12.3Gbps, so it seems the ability to add memory voltage is at least beneficial on air – it's much more common to see sub-12Gbps speeds.