Overclocking
Want some more? Get some more with overclocking. Without touching the voltage, we managed a core speed of 1,255MHz and memory running at an effective 8,012MHz.
Perhaps we've been spoiled by the previous benchmarks as we were expecting it to get closer to the 5,000-mark barrier at the 4K settings.
That's better. The card boosts to an average 1,482MHz when overclocked. Add the overclocked memory into the mix provides some rather impressive figures. We're now looking at a 33 per cent uplift over the already-fast reference card.
The fastest single-GPU we've ever tested? Yes. Are there faster GTX 980 Tis out there? Yes.
Though the results are undeniably impressive, we experienced more-than-usual coil whine for our sample. It became noticeable enough for it to be distracting in a quiet system, especially when playing games like Total War: Rome II that often cause the most obvious whine.
Our board is a sample of precisely one, and looking around coil whine appears to a hit-and-miss issue. Some users report zero coil whine, others, like us, experience more than normal. There is no hard-and-fast rule that determines whether any one card will suffer from it.
