Overclocking

For our overclocking test we used the delivered software ASUS Smartdoctor. Although this tool allows easy an quick voltage adjustments we didn't increase the core voltage. During our testing we had to find out that when we rose the voltage only very little thremal throttling was the consequence which causes the card to clock down during a benchmark in order to prevent the GPUs from overheating. This was very annoying and when there is a possibility to test this card with another cooler we'll try again. This time we were only able to reach a GPU clock of 681 MHz and a memmory clock of 3'620 MHz.

Futuremark Overclocking

3DMark 11 Total	Score	Percent
ASUS EAH6990 (980 MHz / 5'756 MHz)	9'201	170.92 %
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz)	8'625	160.22 %
ASUS GTX 590 (681 MHz / 3'620 MHz)	8'572	159.24 %
NVIDIA GTX 590 (673 MHz / 3'602 MHz)	8'564	159.09 %
ASUS GTX 590	8'123	150.90 %
NVIDIA GTX 590	8'043	149.41 %
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII (GPU 952 MHz / Mem 4'568 MHz)	6'512	120.97 %
ASUS ENGTX 580 (GPU 966 MHz / Mem 2'332 MHz)	6'212	115.40 %
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII (GPU 939 MHz / Mem 4'056 MHz)	6'199	115.16 %
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII	5'988	111.24 %
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 570 DirectCUII	5'273	97.96 %
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII 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 DirectCUII 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 EAH6990 (980 MHz / 5'756 MHz)	11'047	193.91 %
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz)	9'977	175.13 %
NVIDIA GTX 590 (673 MHz / 3'602 MHz)	9'786	171.77 %
ASUS GTX 590 (681 MHz / 3'620 MHz)	9'724	170.69 %
ASUS GTX 590	8'914	156.47 %
NVIDIA GTX 590	8'854	155.42 %
ASUS ENGTX 580 (GPU 966MHz / MEM 2'332 MHz)	6'679	117.24 %
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII (GPU 952 MHz / Mem 4'568 MHz)	6'731	118.15 %
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII (GPU 939 MHz / Mem 4'056 MHz)	6'151	107.97 %
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII	5'872	103.53 %
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 570 DirectCUII	5'082	89.20 %
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII 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 DirectCUII 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	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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