Overclocking
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| EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW | ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II TOP |
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EVGA has a tendency to cherry-pick the best GPUs for its FTW cards, so it's no surprise to see a good amount of overclocking headroom on this particular GTX 670.
Your mileage may vary - remember no two GPUs are identical - but after upping voltage to 1.15V, our sample was able to run with a 1,116MHz core and memory bumped up to a cool 6,908MHz. EVGA's card managed to go slightly further than ASUS's DirectCU II TOP with the same voltage applied, but the higher speeds don't always translate to better in-game performance:
Despite being overclocked slightly higher, the EVGA GTX 670 FTW loses out to ASUS's GTX 670 DirectCU II TOP. The reason for this is ASUS's impressive dual-fan cooler; it allows the core to keep sufficiently cool, which in turn enables NVIDIA's integrated GPU Boost technology to kick in and eke out that extra ounce of performance.
