GTX 970 overclock results!

[jty0yt]

So on my GTX 970 I have upped the core my 120 MHZ observing a boost clock of 1479mhz. MY fans are around 50 percent at 100 percent usage and the temps are 52 degrees! I have only upped the voltage by 15 MV and the power limit to 105%. I love this card, give me your results below!

 

[George Phillips]

Almost all Geforce GTX 970 cards are doing insanely with great overclocking results. Has there been an article specificially analyzing the performance of these insanely overclocked 970s against much expensive 980/980 Ti and AMD 380x / Fury Fury X? These 970s might be very close to or even surpass 980Ti and Fury X.

 

[dsr07mm]

Well "almost" I realized after 8 months of usage that its not 100% drivers fault for my grey screens.

On 350.12 I achieved +130/+200 and that is max what I could get (perhaps a bit more on memory but that is not important lets be real for 1080p gaming, its like 1-2fps per 200mhz in my benchmarks).

I realized that any other drivers works only on +120/+200 stable. So basically I can run my gpu only on 1461mhz at the moment. I can pass benchmark tests even on 1550mhz with +87mV but in gaming I get grey screens. So I would say +120 is minimum solid overclock since every further 15mhz are giving you approx 1fps in most AAA titles (ofc depending on optimization not like Ubisoft games hah).

 

[SheerTheSheep]

I've had my MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4 since September now and I've had plenty of time testing it and overclocking as well as flashing my own custom BIOS's. I have to say i'm very dubious about people that claim 1550mhz 8000mhz is truely stable with no voltage or TDP limit bump. I found that running benchmarks and gaming for short periods or on certain games this was achieveable by simply increasing tdp to 110% but under real stress it would always crash or throttle back the GPU.

In the end I modified the entire voltage scale on the cards BIOS, topping out at 2.81v @ 1550mhz / 8000mhz with a TDP max limit of 300w & i have seen it actually reach 260w several times. This allows the card to run rock solid stable for hours on end in anything I've thrown at it and it never scales back the gpu clock. FC4, BF4, valley bench and heaven all run perfectly with no artifacts, hangs or crashes.

Here are my scores to prove results:

lol, gotta say nice edit. almost believable XD now if only you edited the bigger score to the bottom pic with the higher avg FPS. i mean really? how does 65FPS avg score higher then 82FPS avg? XD nice try trying to troll.

So if you actually read the info on both pics you would have seen the bottom one has a higher avg fps because it was on 1600x900, thus the lower score... Learn to read...

 

[dsr07mm]

I've had my MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4 since September now and I've had plenty of time testing it and overclocking as well as flashing my own custom BIOS's. I have to say i'm very dubious about people that claim 1550mhz 8000mhz is truely stable with no voltage or TDP limit bump. I found that running benchmarks and gaming for short periods or on certain games this was achieveable by simply increasing tdp to 110% but under real stress it would always crash or throttle back the GPU.

In the end I modified the entire voltage scale on the cards BIOS, topping out at 2.81v @ 1550mhz / 8000mhz with a TDP max limit of 300w & i have seen it actually reach 260w several times. This allows the card to run rock solid stable for hours on end in anything I've thrown at it and it never scales back the gpu clock. FC4, BF4, valley bench and heaven all run perfectly with no artifacts, hangs or crashes.

Here are my scores to prove results:

lol, gotta say nice edit. almost believable XD now if only you edited the bigger score to the bottom pic with the higher avg FPS. i mean really? how does 65FPS avg score higher then 82FPS avg? XD nice try trying to troll.

So if you actually read the info on both pics you would have seen the bottom one has a higher avg fps because it was on 1600x900, thus the lower score... Learn to read...

All kind of people all here on internet..why are you suprised lol

 

[Kyle__]

First Overclock
Stock BIOS
MSI GTX 970 Twin FROZR V OC Edition

MSI AFTERBURNER
Voltage- 0mV
Power Limit- 110%
Core Clock- +200MHz
Memory Clock- +550MHz
GPU Temps- ~65 C

 

[SheerTheSheep]

First Overclock
Stock BIOS
MSI GTX 970 Twin FROZR V OC Edition

MSI AFTERBURNER
Voltage- 0mV
Power Limit- 110%
Core Clock- +200MHz
Memory Clock- +550MHz
GPU Temps- ~65 C

That is a good card you have right there

 

[George Phillips]

I have seen many MSI cards running really well. Does MSI afterburner work better to maximize MSI cards?

 

[Kyle__]

I have seen many MSI cards running really well. Does MSI afterburner work better to maximize MSI cards?

Maybe, but I haven't read anywhere that says that for sure

 

[sadab0]

EVGA 970 FTW
Couldn't get the Core Clock through 60mhz and +87V without artifacting lol, my first OC too so I was kind of disappointed.
Now I'm sitting at +87V and +100mhz mem clock with no core OC, didn't try to go higher yet though.

 

[OddsandEnds]

Hi all
Im new to this game too.
Have an Asus 970 Strix, not the OC model and tried out some clocks and tests in the weekend.

came up to core +185 and mem +200, without any artifacts in ether Firestrike, FF14 benchmark and Sniper Elite 2 benchmark without messing with volt and power.
Tried to get it stabel on +190 with changing volt, but it just made it worse.

Temp at load is around 70C

 

[lowcountrysmoke]

msi gtx 970

so far im stable at +220 core and +450 mem(havnt pushed it further yet). This is putting me at 1535mhz which is more than enough for me, now im sure after a few more days of heavy gaming i may have to drop it -10 or so. oh and stock voltage

Here is a Valley Benchmark:

 

[Vellinious]

Pushed one of my 970 FTWs to 1620 for a Firestrike run.

Could only get it to run Valley at 1601 though.

And with both of the cards together, the best I could get was 1607 on Firestrike and 1593 together on Valley.

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

Those white dots on the first pic look like low level artifacts to me, they don't look like they should be there.

 

[George Phillips]

Overclocking the core to 1620 sounds amazingly fast. I wonder if few cores in 970 enables it to overclock higher than 980s? What do you guys think? Also, at 1600Mhz, does 970 run head to head with 980 Ti?

 

[Vellinious]

No. Those aren't artifacts. lol Cotton from cottonwoods or something floating around everywhere in the screen.

 

[Vellinious]

Overclocking the core to 1620 sounds amazingly fast. I wonder if few cores in 970 enables it to overclock higher than 980s? What do you guys think? Also, at 1600Mhz, does 970 run head to head with 980 Ti?

It takes a modded bios to push the 970 that high. The stock bios are really limited. With a good overclock, the 970 will perform about on par with a 980....but it won't even begin to close on a 980ti.

 

[xeph_]

No. Those aren't artifacts. lol Cotton from cottonwoods or something floating around everywhere in the screen.

he has a ftw edition with custom pcb witch explains his great oc results... look at his sig before calling fake

 

[Vellinious]

No. Those aren't artifacts. lol Cotton from cottonwoods or something floating around everywhere in the screen.

he has a ftw edition with custom pcb witch explains his great oc results... look at his sig before calling fake

Mine are the 1st gen FTW on the ACX 2.0 pcb, not the FTW+. With a modded bios though, they're essentially the same thing, minus the better power phase of the FTW+. Well...minus a bit more voltage and a lot higher power limits with the custom bios. = P

 

[Michal aka Falcoln]

My settings and results:

Cheers, Falc0ln

 

[nikoli707]

gtx780@1.35ghz extreme hd preset valley score 3349. some of your 970s need to play catchup. im jk... for some reason heaven and valley do not like maxwell or hawaii. nice to see many of your 1500mhz clocks though.

 

[jdk___]

I Doubt any 970s with 1400mhz core [even if it's underwater] stayed 10 hrs straight in an mmo because your memory will heat-up for sure and reset your GPU.

I have my MSI 970 running at 1545 MHz for over 24 hours at 98-99% load in ARK. It's liquid cooled at 38-40C (18-20C above ambient). And in the middle of that in-game "stress test" I was running prime95 on 5 cores of my 5820k @4.3 GHz.

[Edit]
Full disclosure: I did get an out of system memory error due to a game bug that most likely leaked all my system RAM, but it wasn't a video error.

 

[Vellinious]

I Doubt any 970s with 1400mhz core [even if it's underwater] stayed 10 hrs straight in an mmo because your memory will heat-up for sure and reset your GPU.

I have my MSI 970 running at 1545 MHz for over 24 hours at 98-99% load in ARK. It's liquid cooled at 38-40C (18-20C above ambient). And in the middle of that in-game "stress test" I was running prime95 on 5 cores of my 5820k @4.3 GHz.

[Edit]
Full disclosure: I did get an out of system memory error due to a game bug that most likely leaked all my system RAM, but it wasn't a video error.

Maybe he doesn't realize that will full coverage blocks, the memory is actively cooled by the block.....

 

[Vellinious]

Having a little more fun...pushed the core up to 1624 and 2005 on the memory. = )

 

[Kamil_2]

my MSI 970 can handle in games 180+ on core, 7800 on memory and 35+ more volts. Is it a good score?

 

[Vellinious]

my MSI 970 can handle in games 180+ on core, 7800 on memory and 35+ more volts. Is it a good score?

Well, you're speaking in terms of offsets....offsets add to the speed of the core, the speed of the memory and add to the stock voltage. So....unless you know what your boost clock and what voltage you're running at AFTER those offsets....nobody will ever know the answer to that question.

The memory at 7800 is decent, though. GPUz would read that at 1950. Depending on the type of memory, they can usually go to 2000 (8000) or higher. Elpida and Hynix memory tend not to overclock as well as the Samsung memory, which can overclock quite a measure higher.