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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

This is interesting

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014...overclocking_video_card_review/4#.VNvcrPmsVKU

Our final overclock turned out to be +250 Core Clock offset and +500 memory offset. This results in a Base Clock of 1377MHz and a Boost Clock of 1466MHz. However, the real-time in-game frequency is actually 1516MHz!

However, there is a disclaimer with this overclock. There were some games that throttled between 1497MHz - 1516MHz while gaming. Worse case scenario, we saw the clock speed run at 1497MHz, but then it could and would dynamically change as we played. In certain parts of the game it would be 1497MHz, in other parts it would be 1516MHz depending on the load.

Throughout the entirety of two games it remained consistent at 1516MHz without changing at all. However in a couple of other games it did dynamically change between 1497MHz and 1516MHz. Therefore, our overclocking range is actually 1497MHz to 1516MHz, depending on the game and the game situation. We never saw it drop below 1497MHz, unless we raised the voltage.

The default voltage to achieve this was 1.218v. If we raised the voltage to 1.243v the maximum overclock we could achieve was only 1452MHz. We could not get the GPU over 1452MHz with the GPU voltage maxed out. Anything above that would throttle the GPU back to 1452MHz. Therefore actually keeping the voltage lower, at its default 1.218v allowed a 64MHz higher overclock.

We achieved an 8GHz clock on the memory. This is a full 1GHz overclock from the default of 7GHz.

Our final overclock was: 1516MHz/8GHz. This is a 276MHz overclock. Yet, we do feel there is more headroom in this GPU just like the GTX 970. We are only held back by the TDP/Power Limit wall. Imagine no power limits, and being able to raise the voltage, 1.6GHz may not be out of the realm of possibility. Remember, this is just a reference video card, with reference cooler, and we got 1516MHz out of it without changing the voltage. Simply outrageous, in a good way.
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EDIT : If I lower the voltage I get a VREL = Need more volts
 
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The best/most stable overclock I found on my strix 980 after testing multiple games:

125 % power limit
45% fan speed
+37mv
+200 core
+400 mem

Max temp was 66 degrees.
 
AtreuS said:
Keyboard i have no use for as i have an Isku already. However a friend is giving me £30 for it so bonus. The nvidia find your path code was on the invoice from the shop so redeemed for unity so another £20 or so i guess...
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I've found the Nvidia code at the bottom of my receipt. Am well chuffed. Just selected Far Cry 4 over Unity :)
 
Neil79 said:
How about 3DMARK 11? It's stable as in it goes through 3DMARK fine, but throttles

I'll test your settings tomorrow :)
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You may want to test these too:

Power: 122%
No extra Volts
+121
leave your RAM stock, then up to my SIG speed if you are stable.

Report back.

Mine will boost to 1513, then drop to 1500 as vdrop kicks in. I've seen the RAM effects the voltage across the whole Card, so start with your Core first.
 
Some more tweaking last night and beat my previous heaven score of 2009 with clocks oddly enough, go figure.

1608 core

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Seems as though it's the same with the 970 and that's finding a good balance between core and memory.
 
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Managed to fit a mesh panel to replace the window in my 540r and added a 200mm Megaflow side fan. Considering I am a danger unto myself with any power tool, I'm very pleased with the results. Idle's dropped nearly 10°, didn't have time to try out heaven yet but so far it looks really good. My extra Gentle Typhoons arrived this morning so I've now got three to go in the front.

I will tame these SOCs. :D
 
My card has a ASIC reading of 70.7%. I'm hoping when I get it under water I'll have a bit more headroom for overclocking.

Looking at the last few pages everyone's results are all over the place. I guess that is to be expected but with some cards using low volts, while having high power draw and others higher volts with lower power consumption it makes an interesting read :) For a while I thought I was alone with the results I have.

Neil, you'd be best to drop your Bios back to stock and edit it yourself as and when you need to.
 
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Hi there

Could do with a bit of advice. I could do with a new graphics card atm and the 980 seems to be the best you can get at the moment for a single gpu solution. Really I want the 980ti (or a 390X if it's good) but I'm unsure when that is coming out now. I keep seeing reports that it could be delayed until 2016 so if true that's a long time to wait! (correct me if I am wrong)

So a 980 would do me in the meantime. I game at 1440p and play BF4 mainly so I presume one of these cards would give me a decent frame rate on ultra settings x2 AA?

I normally watercool my cards but as these run cool anyway and I was thinking of getting something like the Gigabyte G1. Would there be any advantage in putting a water block on one as from what I can see they all seem to hit a wall of roughly 1550Mhz/8000Mhz.

I'd appreciate some help as getting new graphics card is doing my head in lately! lol
 
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I play BF4 with ultra settings at 2560x1080 and get on average 100fps with a 4690k.

Watercooling isn't really needed with a single card and you are right, the 970/980 are cool running chips. You won't really get much extra performance with watercooling as the cards are not voltage unlocked with AMD stuff.

Essentially watercool if you want lower temps and a silent PC, otherwise stick with the standard cooler.

SOC owners. Does anyone have access to their card who could take a measurement for me?

I'm after the distance between the top and bottom back plate mounting screws as shown in this picture from the centre of the holes.

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Awahwah said:
Remember it's the full fat GM204 Chip, it will need a bit more juice to get it going.

As a matter if interest, whats you ASIC reading?
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77.9%

Bluntwrapped said:
Neil, you'd be best to drop your Bios back to stock and edit it yourself as and when you need to.
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It doesn't matter what Bios I use it's still being a ***

Will try again tonight, had a migraine this morning :(
 
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JamesM said:
I play BF4 with ultra settings at 2560x1080 and get on average 100fps with a 4690k.

Watercooling isn't really needed with a single card and you are right, the 970/980 are cool running chips. You won't really get much extra performance with watercooling as the cards are not voltage unlocked with AMD stuff.

Essentially watercool if you want lower temps and a silent PC, otherwise stick with the standard cooler.

SOC owners. Does anyone have access to their card who could take a measurement for me?

I'm after the distance between the top and bottom back plate mounting screws as shown in this picture from the centre of the holes.

b4dvua.png
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So how does your res compare to 1440p?

Just wondering what sort of framerate I would expect to get with one card at my res.
 
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