GTX 980 Club - Overclocking - Benchmarks!

@fantaskarsef he meant me LOL.

Ragingun was kind enough to send me his two great 970 GTX Gigabyte G1 cards for my 980 GTX card so he could have some fun with his new gear.

@Ragingun
LOL I knew you could overclock that CPU a little more.

Well so far the 970 GTX Gigabyte G1 cards are good overclockers but I have not found the best overclocks yet.
As of today stable overclocks in games with original BIOS.Which is very nice BTW.
1543 Core
7800 Memory

For some strange reason I must have deleted or did not run some Firestrike with 980SLI/R9 290X Crossfire but I have found other runs.
Looks like in synthetic benchmarks 970 GTX Gigabyte G1 hold there own on the same system tested with the cards below.

For me to get to 20K on the 970 cards with 3770K CPU not going to happen.
Probably going to sell the 970 cards and go back to AMD R9 290X crossfire.

EG:

R9 290 Crossfire run.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/2833578

970 GTX SLI Gigabyte G1

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5013822?

780Ti Sli run

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1809031

 

LOL, wrong post quote!

 

Those cards are awesome. Do you like the R9 cards better? Otherwise why are you selling?

I didn't look at your CPU and you're right, that's what'll hold ya back from 20k.

I was able to push an extra 100mhz on the turbo clock only putting it to 4.7ghz, going to 4.8ghz my system crashed once. The best turbo clock the 980's can do with the NOLIMITS bios running 1.275v is 1520mhz.

 

Do you spend most of your time playing 3dmark? I'm not understanding why you'd sell cards that perform about the same, require less power and generate less heat.

 

OH The 970 cards are great,and they overclock like crazy.
I just like AMD crossfire better than SLI. I have been SLI/crossfire since I can remember.
I may wait until the new AMD card is out,before I go back to AMD.

Well 1520 SLI on 980 GTX reference cards are good.
Your overclock is a little better than average on that CPU and you have a great gaming system that millions of people would love to have.

 

Well if your talking to me,I guess you did not read my post.

I like doing the odd benchmark,but I truly enjoy playing games with different graphics cards and sometimes I may buy and sell 5-10 of the same card because I can.It is a past time/hobby for me,I am just glad I do not like cars.

 

Just Got my 2 new Evga GtX980's First test

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3443362

 

^^ nice, congrats!

 

Push them core clocks up man! You can rock them cards.

 

My SLI reference gtx 980's are boosting to 1507mhz without any change to voltage. That;s 242+ on core and also 300+ on mem.

My question is this.
Am I safe to run these cards at this all the time as I haven't increased voltage and the cards hit a max temp of around 72c?

I read on a a tech site that better overclocks are attained by not altering the vcore as this mean the cards won't hit the max power limit or pdt I think the term was.

 

Early Bench Scores.

Heaven 4 @1080p




3dmark11 P preset




3dmark11 X preset




Firestrike




Firestrike Extreme




Firestrike Ultra 4K




Skydiver




3dmark Vantage X preset




Some benches like Unigine Valley and 3dmark Vantage on the normal preset are not worth running due to the huge CPU bottleneck.
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New Test

Here some new test on 1 card

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3449419

http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/5177116

 

Here is skydiver on 2 cards

http://www.3dmark.com/sd/2586011

 

64-bit Windows 10 (6.4.9879)

Here is a Preview test

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3470310

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3471435

 

I too have reference 980's cooled with Kraken G10 with Antec 920..Here's my 24/7 Overclock.. Boosted Clock is 1519.

My Score:

 

Here's my final results, 23,359. I don't think I can push the cards or CPU anymore. I'm still just 14 FPS behind the only other 5820k CPU. Next closest 5820k is 500 marks lower.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3441112

http://www.3dmark.com/hall-of-fame-2/fire+strike+3dmark+score+performance+preset/version+1.1/2+gpu

 

Test

Here's my best on 3dmark-Vantage

http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/5179745

 

I envy you..I can only push my CPU to 4.5ghz..Here's my highest 3DMark Results..

www.3dmark.com/fs/3480451

http://www.3dmark.com/hall-of-fame-2/fire+strike+3dmark+score+performance+preset/version+1.1/2+gpu

 

Today i put in a Asus 980 Strix

 

I'm tempted to get one in a few weeks, i can do firestrike regular and get 12.5k gpu score, when you guys with a single card are hitting 16k.
don't get me wrong i don't need the power currently, would be more comfortable with gta5 from the get go with single card set-up that could manage it. i wouldn't get an uber one though, maybe a super jetstream.