Inno3D GeForce GTX 1080 iChill X3 Graphics Card Review

Overclocking and Overclocked Performance

When it comes to overclocking, it’s extraordinarily challenging to achieve huge boosts, especially on factory overclocked models. As a result, the best I could achieve was an increase of 62MHz on the core and an additional 632MHz memory overclock. I even tried to reach the absolute limit by setting a fairly hefty voltage rating. Unfortunately, this didn’t aid stability or improve the graphics card’s overclocking headroom. Despite this, a boost of 2062MHz isn’t too shabby and I’m interested to see how this compares to other custom GTX 1080s. Please note, there was a bug in GPU-Z which meant the overclocked figures were not being displayed properly. Therefore, I’ve listed the original overclock settings below:

To provide an interesting comparison here is the maximum recorded boost clock prior to manual overclocking:

3DMark Fire Strike Ultra

As you can see, the overclock brings the graphics card closer towards a score of 6000 and annihilates the competition when they run at stock parameters.