Overclocking the GeForce GTX 590
With a clock speed set at 607 MHz, I didn’t have high hopes that we would find much headroom on the GTX 590 for overclocking. After all, if NVIDIA thought the GPUs were capable of higher speeds (and thus a better positioning against the Radeon HD 6990), they would probably have done it.
As it turns out I was able to get a pretty sold 68 MHz or so boost, an 11% increase in the core clock and shader clock speeds, though even with my best efforts I could not reach the 700 MHz level. How did this affect gaming performance?
The performance gains were definitely worthwhile and resulted in 8%, 10% and 6% overall gains in the average frame rates in these three games at 2560×1600. Noise levels and temperature didn’t increase much either over the results seen on the previous page which leads me to believe we are hitting the limits of power consumption for many of the components on the PCB itself.
More hardcore overclockers that want to get into voltage modifications and the like will be able to stretch more out of the GTX 590 though for the casual gamer, I think these results are indicative of a pretty-good-case scenario.
More hardcore overclockers that want to get into voltage modifications and the like will be able to stretch more out of the GTX 590 though for the casual gamer, I think these results are indicative of a pretty-good-case scenario.
LooooolZZZ, Every 1 knows
LooooolZZZ, Every 1 knows HD6990 is Better, the only thing that gtx has over 6990 is quitter fan, but has serious issues with overheating n power consumption, also HD6990 is longer a bit (12″), but come on, who cares about these stuff over performance??!, and I am wondering why nvidia keep making ads while AMD is just gave the hd6990 with simple packet, while nvidia’s packs r really fancy ones, think about it 😉
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