Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1080 Graphics Card Review

Overclocking and Overclocked Performance

Overclocking the GTX 1080 can be challenging especially if you want to achieve a maximum boost clock around 2100MHz. Judging from my previous reviews, it’s very unlikely for GTX 1080 samples to exceed this figure even when you apply more voltage. Here we can see the stock read-outs from the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1080 when utilising the OC profile. The 1936MHz recorded boost is good but it’s behind some cards which have boosted beyond 2000MHz.

Gigabyte’s XTREME GAMING ENGINE utility contains everything you need to enhance performance in a stylish yet simple user-interface. Throughout the testing process, I managed to increase the core clock by 143MHz to 1839MHz which translates to a quoted boost of 1978MHz. On another note, the memory was set to 10650MHz with a small 16% change in voltage to aid stability. Of course, the power limit and temperature limit were set to the maximum values. Overall, this is a very good overclock and I’m particularly impressed with the large core clock gain. While the memory could have overclocked further, it’s not a major issue.

Once the overclocked settings had been applied, the boost clock shot up to a maximum reading of 2088MHz while the memory reached 1330.6MHz.

Here is the GPU-Z screenshot which clearly displays the default configuration and improvements from manual overclocking:

3DMark

The overclocked Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1080 surpasses the ASUS STRIX GAMING GTX 1080 OC which is amazing considering the price difference.

Once again, the graphics card comes out on top and greatly benefits from the astonishing overclocking headroom. Evidently, it’s a huge boost in performance compared to the stock OC mode.

When running the 4K benchmark, the graphics card offers supreme performance and just falls behind the overclocked ASUS STRIX GAMING GTX 1080. Saying that, it’s by such a small margin that the ranking order could change when re-testing.