Recently I have been very lazy and don't bother to overclock but after sitting here today about to fire up Batman Arkham City, I thought "should I run AB first?" Me being me, I decided to see what the actual gains are from overclocking and its worth.
I decided to do 2 games for now and the results are quite outstanding. I am running a single Titan for now and the 2 games I thought worth testing were - Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs and as these both have their own bench test built in, results should be fairly accurate.
On to the testing methodology - I used no overclocking on the first test in Tomb Raider and received a 44.7 minimum, 58.4 average and 70 maximum. Now that is pretty acceptable to me but what would the benefit of overclocking bring? I decided to go up in 100Mhz levels and leave the memory at stock till the final test. I have a custom, non boosting BIOS and my base clock is 924Mhz. I ran the forth test with clocks of 1224Mhz and stock memory and this returned 58 minimum, 72.7 average and 87.5 maximum. As you can see, my minimum is now equal to my average at stock, which is impressive and for the last test, I ran with a 1224Mhz core and +400 on the memory, which gave me 3405Mhz clocks. The results for that were very impressive and gave a minimum of 62, and average of 75.5 and a maximum of 93.4. This is an increase of 24.4% over the stock clocks
Not to shabby. I did the exact same testing on Sleeping Dogs and the results were just as impressive but only gave a 20% increse from the lowest clocks to the final core and memory overclock.
Anyways, to put it into perspective, I did a nice graph (we all like a graph) and I will test this some more, as there may be bigger gains in some games and lesser in others but on the whole....
Is overclocking worth it? Damned right it is
Tomb Raider
Sleeping Dogs
TL: DR
24% increase in Tomb Raider with moving a couple of sliders
20% increase in Sleeping Dogs with moving a couple of sliders
I decided to do 2 games for now and the results are quite outstanding. I am running a single Titan for now and the 2 games I thought worth testing were - Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs and as these both have their own bench test built in, results should be fairly accurate.
On to the testing methodology - I used no overclocking on the first test in Tomb Raider and received a 44.7 minimum, 58.4 average and 70 maximum. Now that is pretty acceptable to me but what would the benefit of overclocking bring? I decided to go up in 100Mhz levels and leave the memory at stock till the final test. I have a custom, non boosting BIOS and my base clock is 924Mhz. I ran the forth test with clocks of 1224Mhz and stock memory and this returned 58 minimum, 72.7 average and 87.5 maximum. As you can see, my minimum is now equal to my average at stock, which is impressive and for the last test, I ran with a 1224Mhz core and +400 on the memory, which gave me 3405Mhz clocks. The results for that were very impressive and gave a minimum of 62, and average of 75.5 and a maximum of 93.4. This is an increase of 24.4% over the stock clocks
Not to shabby. I did the exact same testing on Sleeping Dogs and the results were just as impressive but only gave a 20% increse from the lowest clocks to the final core and memory overclock.Anyways, to put it into perspective, I did a nice graph (we all like a graph) and I will test this some more, as there may be bigger gains in some games and lesser in others but on the whole....
Is overclocking worth it? Damned right it is
Tomb Raider
Sleeping Dogs
TL: DR
24% increase in Tomb Raider with moving a couple of sliders
20% increase in Sleeping Dogs with moving a couple of sliders
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