For overclocking our NVIDIA cards we will be using EVGA's Precision too (ver. 4.1) as this gives us all of the options we require. Should you desire, then GIGABYTE's own GURU II is equally good.
Above is a screenshot of GPU-Z showing the reference (factory overclocked) speeds and reference boost clocks
Overclocking a card which is already overclocked from the factory usually limits the amount of overclocking headroom remaining. Not so with the GIGABYTE GTX780 Windforce x3 OC as we managed a further 115MHz on the core resulting in a blistering 1201MHz GPU BOOST clockspeed. Couple this with the stupidly high memory overclock and you can't help but wonder why GIGABYTE were so conservative with the factory overclocks.
Both core and memory could be pushed further separately but produced instability when clocked together.
After settling on our stable clockspeed which was verified by multiple runs of Unigine Heaven and 3DMark we benchmarked the overclock and compared it to stock results with Unigine Heaven 4.0 to evaluate the benefits of overclocking the GPU.
Above is a screenshot of GPU-Z showing the reference (factory overclocked) speeds and reference boost clocks
Overclocking a card which is already overclocked from the factory usually limits the amount of overclocking headroom remaining. Not so with the GIGABYTE GTX780 Windforce x3 OC as we managed a further 115MHz on the core resulting in a blistering 1201MHz GPU BOOST clockspeed. Couple this with the stupidly high memory overclock and you can't help but wonder why GIGABYTE were so conservative with the factory overclocks.
Both core and memory could be pushed further separately but produced instability when clocked together.
After settling on our stable clockspeed which was verified by multiple runs of Unigine Heaven and 3DMark we benchmarked the overclock and compared it to stock results with Unigine Heaven 4.0 to evaluate the benefits of overclocking the GPU.
