Overclocking

For our overclocking tests we used MSI Afterburner. The reason that we didn't use Gigabytes own "OC Guru" is, that we haven been able to set the maximum voltage in the program. It always reset to a lower level which in the end wasn't enough for our overclockings. Using the MSI Afterburner software it's been possible to set the voltage to 1.088 Volt and reach 951 MHz GPU clock an 4'300 MHz memory clock.

Futuremark Overclocking

3DMark 11 Total	Score	Percent
ASUS ENGTX 580 (GPU 966 MHz / Mem 2'332 MHz)	6'212	115.40 %
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII (974 MHz / Mem 5'872 MHz)	5'656	105.07 %
ASUS ENGTX 580	5'383	100.00 %
ASUS EAH6970 (GPU 1'001 MHz / Mem 3'008 MHz)	5'365	99.67 %
ASUS EAH6950 (GPU 986 MHz / Mem 5'764)	4'733	87.92 %
ASUS EAH6950	4'606	85.57 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock (GPU 951 MHz / Mem 4'300 MHz)	4'125	76.63 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock	3'754	104.95 %
	more is better

3DMark 11 GPU	Score	Percent
ASUS ENGTX 580 (GPU 966MHz / MEM 1166MHz)	6'679	117.24 %
ASUS ENGTX 580	5'697	100.00 %
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII  (974 MHz / Mem 5'872 MHz)	5'510	96.72 %
ASUS EAH6970 (GPU 1'001 MHz / Mem 3'008 MHz)	5'191	91.12 %
ASUS EAH6950 (GPU 986 MHz / Mem 5'764)	4'641	81.46 %
ASUS EAH6950	4'108	72.11 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock (GPU 951 MHz / Mem 4'300 MHz)	4'022	70.60 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock	3'562	106.81 %
	more is better

3DMark Vantage	Score	Percent
ASUS ENGTX 580 (936MHz / MEM 1140MHz)	29'090	190.11 %
ASUS ENGTX 580	23'788	173.50 %
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII  (974 MHz / Mem 5'872 MHz)	19'866	129.83 %
ASUS EAH6970 (GPU 1'001 MHz / Mem 3'008 MHz)	19'406	126.83 %
ASUS EAH6950 (GPU 986 MHz / Mem 5'764)	17'873	116.81 %
ASUS EAH6950	17'485	125.81 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock (GPU 951 MHz / Mem 4'300 MHz)	17'312	113.14 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock	16'024	115.30 %
ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU OC (GPU 1'000 MHz / Mem 4'708 MHz)	15'439	100.90%
ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU	15'301	100.00 %
	more is better

3DMark Vantage GPU	Score	Percent
ASUS ENGTX 580 (936MHz / MEM 1140MHz)	25'188	169.43 %
ASUS ENGTX 580	23'628	158.93 %
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII  (974 MHz / Mem 5'872 MHz)	21'167	142.39 %
ASUS EAH6970 (GPU 1'001 MHz / Mem 3'008 MHz)	20'450	137.56 %
ASUS EAH6950 (GPU 986 MHz / Mem 5'764)	18'284	122.99 %
ASUS EAH6950	17'679	134.57 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock (GPU 951 MHz / Mem 4'300 MHz)	17'565	118.16 %
ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU OC (GPU 1'000 MHz / Mem 4'708 MHz)	16'672	112.14%
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock	15'755	119.93 %
ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU	14'866	100.00 %
	more is better

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - Futuremark
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 7 - Unigine Heaven / Stone Giant
Page 3 - Preview	Page 8 - World in Conflict / Resident Evil 5
Page 4 - Overclocking	Page 9 - Call of Juarez / Far Cry 2
Page 5 - Testing conditions	Page 10 - Conclusion

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