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Overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Duel - Palit vs. MSI

By James Lu - 2 Jun 2012

Overclocking Results

Overclocking Results

In our overclocking efforts, we were able to push the Palit GeForce GTX 680 to 1142MHz with memory bumped up to 6608MHz DDR. Compared against its base clock speeds, we saw a roughly 4% in performance on both Presets, which was quite underwhelming. Compared to the overclocked reference card, we only saw a 2% gain on 3DMark's Performance Preset, however it did score 10% higher than the overclocked reference card on the Extreme preset. 

MSI's GeForce GTX 680 was pushed to 1205MHz with a memory clock speed of 6560MHz DDR, which resulted in a 6% increase on the Performance preset, and a 9% increase at Extreme. Against the overclocked reference card, we didn't see much improvement on the Performance Preset, but MSI did achieve the highest score in the Extreme Preset, with a very slight lead against Palit, and a 11% gain against the reference model. 

Overall we were disappointed with our overclocking results, as the clock speed increases did not seem to translate into significant performance gains. It's worth noting that our MSI GTX 680 attained a core clock speed 63MHz higher than Palit's, but this hardly translated to any appreciable gains in its final scores. To be fair, the results are somewhat decent when compared to reference clocked cards, but once you compared among the overclcoked graphics cards, the advantage of these top tier specialized cards diminishes.

     

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