OC GTX 1080 Scales Well In 3DMark

GTX 1080 is the card that seems to just keep on giving. Earlier, we shared with you some stock clocked GTX 1080 3DMark scores. Even at the regular clocks, the Pascal chip performed spectacular, offering performance in line with its theoretical specifications. Given the impressive overclocked speeds Nvidia talked about during their event, we were curious how well the overclocking would scale. We’re getting just that today.

Running at 2114 MHz clock which is 381 MHz over the stock 1733 boost clock, the GTX 1080 impresses. The card manages to score 26456, 12921 and 6232 in 3DMark Firestrike Ultra, Extreme and Performance respectively. This gives around a 24% boost over stock clocked version, with near perfect scaling. This demonstrates the efficiency of Pascal and the fact that the GTX 1080 isn’t memory bottlenecked in 3DMark. It also places the card at double the GTX 980 and R9 390X.

The biggest caveat to these numbers is that we don’t know how stable or easy these OC numbers can be obtained. Keep in mind that 3DMark is still a synthetic benchmark in the end and real-world game results will vary. Still, Nvidia looks to have a very potent card with the GTX 1080 and one can only hope that the wallet-friendlier GTX 1070 will replicate the success.