“It’s the highest clocked
GTX680 out the box with a
base clock of 1,137MHz.”
All results were obtained at 4.6GHz on a normal install of Windows 7 64-bit and WinXP.
These are our results, yours may vary so only use these as a guideline for a similarly configured system
GPU
Clocks
3DMark03
3DMark Vantage
3DMark11
Unigine
Heaven
Xtreme
Sniper
Elite Max
Detail
GIGABYTE GTX 680
Super Overclock
1.13GHz/6.2GHz
126379
38355
10947
2076.967
74.2
SAPPHIRE HD7970
GHZ Ed. Vapor-X
1.05GHz/6GHz
142113
37132
9455
2091.497
86.6
have a different boost clocks
depending on the quality of
the silicon. This boost clock
isn’t promised but GIGABYTE
will guarantee at least 1.2GHz.
Our particular sample was
clocking a bit higher than that at
1,254MHz. When we switched
to the LN2 BIOS, this boost
clock did not change despite
the increased TDP to +200%. It
doesn’t however mean the LN2
BIOS on the card isn’t working,
it’s working quite well. Once
again without a special BIOS
we were fairly limited to what
we could do, but with LN2
we had no problem with cold
temperatures. The card didn’t
necessarily clock better than
before and we were pretty much
stuck at 1.4GHz with no voltage
adjustments possible. With the
right utilities however, things
could change.
Gaming performance was as
you’d expect out of a GTX680,
that is to say, smooth at the
least. It handles all games
easily enough and you’ll
not lack for performance
in any title for a while.
The overclocking on the
GIGABYTE card makes it look
very attractive in synthetic
benchmarks, but the actual
in game performance isn’t as
dramatic as the scores would
have you believe. If you aren’t
satisfied with the gaming
performance for whatever
reason, you can consider
adding even more to this c