Overclocking and Overclocked Performance
Since this is one of the first GTX 960’s we’ve had in to overclock, we haven’t a clue on what to expect apart from NVIDIA’s teaser of possible overclocks. When we overclocked this card, we did not increase the voltage, but moved the sliders up a few notches. As you can see, already advancing on Asus’ factory overclock, we bumped it up again from 1253MHz to 1378MHz base clock, 1317MHz to 1441MHz boost clock and 1800MHz (7200MHz effective) to 1950MHz (7800MHz effective). That’s an average yield of an extra 9% performance.
3DMark Fire Strike
At 1080p, the scaling is around 5%, but at 1440p and 4K resolutions, we see scaling of around 10%, not bad for free performance.
would like to see a comparison review of 980, 970 and 960.
There are many comparison reviews on the Internet right now.
I don’t think this is reasonable to choose between Geforce 960 and 980 – they are very different. Especially considering their prices:
EVGA 2GB GeForce GTX960 will cost around $170-200, while Geforce 980 is twice or even thrice more costly.
Results are all over compared to the 760. Makes it hard to choose for a mid-range card. Power savings seems the biggest benefit. Maybe OC to the edge.