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Overclocking
NVIDIA’s Maxwell architecture has been nothing short of kind to over clockers and aficionado of those wanting to push their graphics cards beyond stock clocks, but at what price? Well from past Maxwell graphics card reviews and from experience with pretty much the entire range over the past few months, I have failed to find a “price” but of course keeping opinions aside here, I have been generally impressed with NVIDIA so far this year.
So we already know the KFA2 GTX 970 OC Silent Infin8 Black Edition graphics card has pretty impressive out of the box clocks; 1178/1752MHz with a very modest boost of 1329MHz on the core which is a nice little present thanks to NVIDIA’s GPU Boost 2.0 technology.
The maximum overclocks I achieved were 1990MHz on the memory and 1320MHz on the core; this equates to a near 1.5GHz boost clock which is impressive but not the best I have seen. This is still a great deal of extra power over a reference card but this particular model is pretty close to the MSI although the MSI does have a bit more going for it in the overclocking department.
Below is our usual overclocking benchmarks to show you performance over stock and of course how it contrasts against other cards such as beefier cards like GTX 980’s, other GTX 970’s and of course AMD flavoured cards.
The heatsink design is a rip-off, at least in appeareance, of the Asus Direct CU II