Inno3D GeForce GTX 580 HAWK Edition 3GB graphics card review

Overclocking

We know that the GTX 580 has some overclocking headroom, and by upping the HAWK Edition card's voltage from 1.00V to 1.05V, we are able to reach a stable speed of 885MHz on the core and an effective 4,500MHz for the 3GB of GDDR5 memory.

That's a speed increase of 15 per cent and 12 per cent, respectively, and the gains are enough to help Inno3D's HAWK Edition surpass the factory-overclocked Gigabyte GTX 580 SOC in a re-run of benchmarks.