Overclocking

For our overclocking tests we ASUS' own tool SmartDoctor which operates in combination with the voltage regulation chip "SHE" one can find on the cards PCB. Providing the GPU with 1.5 Volt allowed us to overclock the card all the way up to 1'000 MHz. Regarding the memory it's been possible to reach 4'700 MHz stably. Overclocking this card is quite a lot of fun and on the other hand also give you quite a bit more performance.

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 GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II Top (GPU 1'009 MHz / Mem 4'708 MHz)	5'003	92.94 %
ASUS EAH6950 (GPU 986 MHz / Mem 5'764 MHz)	4'733	87.92 %
ASUS EAH6950	4'606	85.57 %
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II Top	4'551	84.54 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock (GPU 951 MHz / Mem 4'300 MHz)	4'125	76.63 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock	3'754	69.74 %
	more is better

3DMark 11 GPU	Score	Percent
ASUS ENGTX 580 (GPU 966MHz / MEM 2'332 MHz)	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 GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II Top (GPU 1'009 MHz / Mem 4'708 MHz)	4'837	84.90 %
ASUS EAH6950 (GPU 986 MHz / Mem 5'764 MHz)	4'641	81.46 %
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II Top	4'341	76.20 %
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	62.52 %
	more is better

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - Futuremark
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 7 - Unigine Heaven / Stone Giant
Page 3 - Preview / Delivery	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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