Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Mini Review - Overclocking The Graphics Card

Overclocking The Graphics Card

Traditional overclocking - As most of you know, with most video cards you can apply a simple series of tricks to boost the overall performance a little. Typically you can tweak on core clock frequencies and voltages. By increasing the frequency of the videocard's memory and GPU, we can make the videocard increase its clock cycles per second.

Original	This sample	Overclocked
Core Clock: 1607 MHz	Core Clock: 1620 MHz	Core Clock: 1745 MHz
Boost Clock: 1733 MHz	Boost Clock: 1759 MHz	Max Boost Clock: 1975~2000 MHz
Memory Clock: 10 GHz	Memory Clock: 10 GHz	Memory Clock: 11.4 GHz

Our applied tweak with Afterburner (download):

• Core Voltage : 80%
• Power Limit : 120 %
• Temp. limit : 92C 
• Core Clock : +125
• Memory Clock : +700 MHz (=11.404 GHz effective data-rate)

Once overclocked keep this in mind: Due to the dynamic nature of the boost clock, your frequency is not fixed. Limiters and monitors, temperature, load, power and voltages will continuously alter a maximum clock state. For most founders cards these will all be the same, likely for board partners as well.