MSI GTX 670 Twin Frozr Power Edition OC 2GB Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
As with any overclocked card, we know there is still scope for pushing the overclock that bit further. Knowing that the GTX 670 in general is a great overclocker, it’s into our preferred overclocking utility, MSI’s AfterBurner – and onto raising the clock speeds.
We know that the GTX 670 on its core can run into the region of 1100MHz when overclocked and this particular chip must be one of the cream of the crop as it has excelled itself and gone past that threshold and on to a final speed of 1110Mz on the core, boosting to 1188Mz.
As we saw earlier, not many vendors see the need to overclock the memory, but this doesn’t stop us from pushing this a lot further either. After a lot of incremental gains, we started seeing artefacts appear at around 1850MHz and so slowly edging the clock back a little, we saw total stability at a final clock of 1815MHz (7260MHz effective) and rounding the card off with one impressive overclock overall.
Putting the card back through the 3DMark Extreme preset, we saw the end result rise from our starting result of 3332 right up to 3616. This works out as a 8.5% gain in performance from a similar gain on the core clock speed and a whopping 20% gain on the memory clock speed.
