Is it worth overclocking a GTX 980?

[RossJK]

Hi everyone I was wondering if its worth to overclock my Gtx 980 or even overclock anything at all? I've heard that it can be very time consuming? What kind of performance gain will I receive?

 

[Tradesman1]

Depends on you and the card (or CPU or DRAM) depending on what you are OCing. Dram seldom shows big gains, but GPUs and CPUs can show large gains of 25% or more

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

GTA 5 Stock vs Overclocked:

Stock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoqQTKLyHE
OC'd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN5hhFnwG4s

Result details are in the description.

I would say it is worth the time.