Hehe, just me bro. I like to keep things running at default. My thought is, engineers at Sapphire should have already figured out the best balance between noise/temps and have come out with a default BIOS that fits such requirement. So simply plug-and-play the card should allow me to enjoy the card as it is, without needing me to further thinker on any settings.

Sapphire.

These are some of the old Unigine scores I managed to trace back. All running at its stock default speed.

Note that the 770 Jetstream has the same core clock as the AMP! Edition, but the later has a slightly higher memory clock speed.

Palit GTX 770 Jetstream

Core Clock: 1150 MHz
Memory clock: 1753 MHz


Asus GTX 760 DCUII OC

Core Clock: 1006 MHz
Memory clock: 1502 MHz

This is epic!

Some more entries from my old collection. Too bad only managed to run at 1080p last time. As usual, all cards are running at its stock default speed.

Asus GTX TITAN

Core Clock: 837 MHz
Memory clock: 1502 MHz


Sapphire Vapor-X OC R9 280X

Core Clock: 1070 MHz
Memory clock: 1550 MHz


Asus GTX 670 DCUII OC

Core Clock: 980 MHz
Memory clock: 1502 MHz




This post has been edited by rav3n82: Feb 19 2014, 10:57 AM

Hehe, no problem bro. Just here to provide people reference points on roughly where their card stands.

What 625W PSU is that, may I know?

I believe your scores are still ok, not that far off from my slightly overclocked GTX 760, running at 1006 MHz stock. But your minimum framerate is a bit on the low side though.

Yagami5159 My new entry for my GTX 760 at 1600 x 900 resolution.

No, others may have a different approach but I'm just here for fun. All my cards run at its default clock speed, just here to provide some form of reference on roughly where a graphic card would perform. I don't even want to bother overclocking my cards just to push up on the rankings.

There. Nice score already what. I think increasing the fan speed enables the boost clock to be sustained for longer periods of time.

What is your max boost clock observed? Mine goes around 1149 MHz.

Probably this is where custom cooling comes into the picture. My boost clock speed tends to stay consistent throughout the testing. Temperatures range just below 68C at auto fan settings.

But your finding is very interesting. I thought that since my card has a slightly higher base clock, it should have a higher max boost clock speed compared to a reference clocked card. Perhaps in my free time, I will try to tune the fan profile to see if the max boost clock speed got increase or not.

Yes, that's right. The extra MHz on top of the Boost Clock shown at the GPU-Z is known as Kepler Boost, and can be unique to the respective cards. Some good read here.

Generally, this is where Nvidia actually comes clean, listing the base clock and boost clock, where it is guaranteed to achieve, at the very least. AMD on the other hand lists just the "max" boost clock (e.g 1000MHz for R9 290X), with no guarantee of it consistently hitting it at all times, depending on the cooling solution used.

But there are often times when it didn't consistently hit either, its bane is mainly due to the lackluster reference cooling solution. If you've run a reference card before, you can easily see how throttled it can become at times. I have tested 3 runs of Heaven and I observed that the overall framerates drop consistently with each subsequent round of testing, especially when once it hit the max thermal threshold. Pricing wise, I believe AMD hit the nail right on the head. That's why today you see massive price cuts on the GTX 770 / 780, and forced Nvidia to unleash the 780 Ti in a desperate grasp to hold on to the performance crown.

Just my own opinion, I believe it was more of a marketing reason to list the max boost clock speed instead of the base clock. People who are more attuned to graphic cards will likely know how the cards perform, but to the less informed, they will easily compare with Nvidia and ask; eh, how come my clock speed just 662 MHz? Nowadays more and more cards are breaking the GHz barrier, so you can guess why things happen as they are right now. Just an analogy only, I know Nvidia's 780 / 780 Ti all also run at sub GHz clockspeeds also.

Our boss is busy kut?

Please re-run your benchmark with 8xAA. Please see 1st page for the requirements.

I think he meant for him to run at 8xAA.

LOL, I guess in the morning everyone still probably a bit stim stim.

Nice. Btw, what version is your GTX 670? Galaxy?

Galaxy and Gainward belong to Palit. I think Leadtek and PNY are somehow affiliated with one another. You can see PNY cards on review at Hexus and they really look like a carbon copy.

Yes, one of the better custom 290s around. Tapi harga sudah naik untuk card ini oh.