[section_title title=”Overclocking”]Overclocking
As this particular card has some very high overclocks out of the box, I wasn’t really expecting much in terms of extra performance but given that, I know some people will with its constant use of components such as OC+ and Powerboost. In a different twist today, I decided to use ZOTACs FireStorm utility as I felt it should prove a nice change from MSI Afterburner; please note that overclocking performance isn’t down to the software used, but more the card and GPU core itself.
Moving onto overclocking the card, I decided to increase in 10MHz increments and run a couple of benchmarks which include FireStrike 4K, Unigine Valley and Furmark for 5 minutes; this should ensure stability, especially Valley as this is a very intensive benchmark. After around an hour of tweaking, I only managed to push the core to 1350MHz which equates to a maximum boost of 1453MHz which is still a pretty decent overclock in the grand scheme of things. The memory however didn’t have as much extra overclocking headroom and I only managed to get an extra 50MHz taking the total to 1850MHz; not superb but still good.
With a hefty overclock out of the box (over a reference model), the ZOTAC GTX 980 AMP! Extreme edition didn’t yield too much in terms of numbers but let’s see how those extra overclocks attribute to real world performance…
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