The maximum overclock on our sample card was 1138 MHz for the GPU (13% over reference and 9.8% over TurboDuo factory clock). However the GPU overclock is not impressive. We used the default fan and voltage settings as defined in the VGA BIOS. The problem was not high the GPU temperature. Although we kept the fans in Auto mode, the card coped well – the fans sped up and the GPU temperature remained low. After our overclocking run we measured a temperature of 66 degrees Celsius, quite a bit less than what we saw without overclocking.

We just feel we got a GPU that wasn’t willing to cooperate. The memory did not want to play ball beyond 1540MHz, but then again this is a relatively good result – 12 percent over the factory clock.

A quick Battlefield 4 benchmark showed that overclocking yielded an additional 7-percent performance boost.