Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Graphics Card Review

Overclocking and Overclocked Performance

We’ve heard some inspiring stories of the GTX 1080 Ti’s overclocking abilities, and while we did have some success, it’s not as impressive as we hoped, as that stock cooler does seem to be holding things back a bit. We’re certain the card can do more, but it power throttles to keep the hardware safe above 82c, although we’re certain it can handle the clocks, we did have to dial things back for the optimal performance.

I managed to get an extra +173MHz from the GPU core, and the memory clock took another 600Mhz without breaking much of a sweat. This meant that we ended up with the core clocked at 1654Mhz, and a boost clock of 1755Mhz, and a memory clock of 6106Mhz effective, not bad given that any gains here are a free upgrade.

Deux Ex: Mankind Divided

Overclocking the card took some already impressive numbers and turned them into gaming gold. While not the biggest overclock ever, an extra 10FPS is not to be sniffed at.

Far Cry Primal

Again, we saw a 7FPS boost in Far Cry, not a huge gain, but a welcome one regardless. However, we want to see this chipset with a bigger cooler, so that we can take that GPU Core much higher, and we’re confident it’ll do it too.