Post your GTX 980 TI Overclock Results

vdragonlance said:
Flashed a modded BIOS on my reference 980 TI and so far pushed it to 1550 with 121% power target and 1.281 volts. The card stays in the low 40s under load. :)
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Unless you have changed the cooling something is amiss.
 
With those low temps, it will take it, whether it will help the overclock is another matter.
Give up to 1.3V a shot to see what it can do.
Chances are that will push temps a bit over 60C which is still fine.

I wouldnt like to go over 70C at 1.3V.
I'm running a pretty low Asic card with an Accelero IV cooler and I cannot use the 1.25V BIOS without hitting 80C benching and that also reduces my max overclock.
So I'm limited to unlocked 1.24V max, 121% power at around 70C benching, max clock 1.48GHz.
Gaming is 50 to 60C.
Its a great card at this speed.

You should be happy :)
 
Just got a PNY reference card and slapped a ek titan x block on it. Flashed the custom 425 bios and have been playing. Mine seems to top out at 1500. Anything over and it will get a driver crash. 1500 has been completely stable in benches and games. I have not seen it get over 45c even during a couple hour gaming session. Bit disappointed I didn't get one that will go higher but super happy with how it is performing


http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6457447
 
ProStreetCamaro said:
Just got a PNY reference card and slapped a ek titan x block on it. Flashed the custom 425 bios and have been playing. Mine seems to top out at 1500. Anything over and it will get a driver crash. 1500 has been completely stable in benches and games. I have not seen it get over 45c even during a couple hour gaming session. Bit disappointed I didn't get one that will go higher but super happy with how it is performing


http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6457447
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Did you bump your voltage?
 
Voltage with maxwell hs dismissing return and max that matters is 1.25-1.3v at that point yor maxed so see where u get
Whats your asic %
 
Araxie said:
Unigine heaven and valley report wrong core clock readings since Kepler.. in the other hand 980TI can't go above 1550mhz no matter what kind of voltage mod bios you apply.. because the card is hard capped. People need to mod the power tables to allow higher core clock limits...
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I hope you mean nvidia bios capped the 980 TIs.
 
DeadSkull said:
I hope you mean nvidia bios capped the 980 TIs.
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yea i already addressed that. Reading that againI am thinking maybe he meant the TDP settings? Not sure why he used hard capped because that ussually means hardware limited and required psychical modding. I.E. PLL pin modding
 
ProStreetCamaro said:
Just got a PNY reference card and slapped a ek titan x block on it. Flashed the custom 425 bios and have been playing. Mine seems to top out at 1500. Anything over and it will get a driver crash. 1500 has been completely stable in benches and games. I have not seen it get over 45c even during a couple hour gaming session. Bit disappointed I didn't get one that will go higher but super happy with how it is performing


http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6457447
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I've got a reference Zotac 980ti and EK block on the way, would you be so kind as to toss up a linky~dinky where you acquired the 425 bios for a lazy old fart?

Thx in advance.
 
DeadSkull said:
I hope you mean nvidia bios capped the 980 TIs.
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yes, its capped in BIOS by the PowerTables, it simply doesn't exist any power table for higher than that.. anything beyond and you are in the realm of instability.

SomeGuy133 said:
yea i already addressed that. Reading that againI am thinking maybe he meant the TDP settings? Not sure why he used hard capped because that ussually means hardware limited and required psychical modding. I.E. PLL pin modding
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Yes =) again of course, you are right and have 100% reason. it's not like I have modded and edited over 250 Maxwell cards =) (hardware and software) and even provided couple of BIOS to some fellas in the forum... all card able to go by factory above those numbers are out of nvidia specs, it takes custom powered and edited BIOS (like Gigabyte G1 does have as example with way higher power target but still limitted to 250W which its crap however that card its just amazing everything else..) doubtful that you can teach me how to mess with BIOS as I was one of the first guys in this forum to fully able to edit and flash maxwell cards as also was GoldenTiger in those times :D;)
 
Araxie said:
yes, its capped in BIOS by the PowerTables, it simply doesn't exist any power table for higher than that.. anything beyond and you are in the realm of instability.



Yes =) again of course, you are right and have 100% reason. it's not like I have modded and edited over 250 Maxwell cards =) (hardware and software) and even provided couple of BIOS to some fellas in the forum... all card able to go by factory above those numbers are out of nvidia specs, it takes custom powered and edited BIOS (like Gigabyte G1 does have as example with way higher power target but still limitted to 250W which its crap however that card its just amazing everything else..) doubtful that you can teach me how to mess with BIOS as I was one of the first guys in this forum to fully able to edit and flash maxwell cards as also was GoldenTiger in those times :D;)
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or maybe you should learn to explain what your saying and use the right terms?

Hard cap is a hardware cap...something that is at the hardware level. You have to physically mod something to bypass it. I.E. PLL pin mod or modding VRMs or something. I know some people have soldered stuff to their GPUs to bypass a certain limit. Don't recall what it was but thats a hard cap derp derp

Soft capped is a software cap or something similar where you must edit code. I.E editing BIOS derp derp

Maybe use the right terms next time. Smart ass
 
SomeGuy133 said:
or maybe you should learn to explain what your saying and use the right terms?

Hard cap is a hardware cap...something that is at the hardware level. You have to physically mod something to bypass it. I.E. PLL pin mod or modding VRMs or something. I know some people have soldered stuff to their GPUs to bypass a certain limit. Don't recall what it was but thats a hard cap derp derp

Soft capped is a software cap or something similar where you must edit code. I.E editing BIOS derp derp

Maybe use the right terms next time. Smart ass
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Power tables even if are able to be edited by software it's a hardware configuration, core cycles are related directly to voltage.. that's why it's hard capped, you can both bypass the software part by editing the power tables and power target configuration in BIOS or directly bypass by modding the the card physically which of course is riskier because are directly related to the way VRM deliver the voltage to the card and this generally prevent the card from going to idle voltages or keep at a high fixed voltage to maintain clocks 24/7 this is only good for benching, but for the average user Power Tables have to be edited.
 
Just got my reference Zotac 980ti with EK block installed. Have not done jack but go into Afterbuener and set:

106 power,
GPU +200 to 1415 @ 1.193v
mem +300 to 3805
Runs about 40c 100% load and no coil whine to boot :D
 
Quick follow up question guys with their 980ti's under water. Does the PCB behind the VRM's and memory still get warm? :confused:
 
Evil Scooter said:
Quick follow up question guys with their 980ti's under water. Does the PCB behind the VRM's and memory still get warm? :confused:
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how much its warm?... its normal to get warm those works at insane high temps typically.
 
Araxie said:
how much its warm?... its normal to get warm those works at insane high temps typically.
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I can rest my finger on the PCB so it's not burning hot, just shy of really uncomfortable under load. Keeping in mind the parts are rated over 100c and anything over 47c or so will burn ya.

I just do not remember the PCB getting this warm on the other video cards I have run under water. I re-seated the block and thermal pads last night to ensure there was good contact, there was. And I'm not having any stability issues, ran gta5 perfectly last night for hours.
 
also depend on the PCB, are you using reference?. custom models with added power phases and so on runs hotter in that area.. also in a typical water loop flow the inlet/cold water will cool first the GPU core and then the warm water will flow through the VRM areas reducing the cooling in that area, and we know GTX 980TI are hot beast so that's a lot of hot water going through that area.

I wouldn't worry unless its just too hot.
 
How do you folks test for stability, exactly? Right now I've started doing some mild overclocking with this Zotac Amp Extreme (from Jet @ 600$). It goes up to 1442 at utterly stock, so there's honestly not much reason to even overclock it. I'm just doing it for the heck of it. I went ahead and went for +100mhz just to test the waters. I was able to get into Shadows of Mordor (with it boosting to 1541), but I noticed some artifacts, and the game promptly crashed. Then I went for +48ish. That put me at 1491. I ran some Shadows of Mordor for a few hours, then a few hours of Thief, then about 5 hours of Heaven at the highest settings I could crank out. Nothing crashed, didn't have any artifacting. I guess it's stable at 1491 on air at stock volts and fan settings (stock fan settings seem to aim for just shy of 70C on the core).

I'm not sure whether I'll try pushing it above 1500 again until I have my Kraken G10 on. This is an ASCI 79% chip. Seems to be a decent card. I'm not sure if 1491 on air's that great. Is it? I'm not sure just how high it can go. I'll try pushing it a bit more later.
 
I usually loop Heavn for a bit and look for artifacts. If that goes well it's into gameland to see if the stability holds. My bone reference Zotac will do +300 on the gpu up to 1515 with no stability issues but I see minor artifacting occasionally when I loop Heaven. I'm pretty happy running it at 1415 under stock volts.
 
Finally got my reference EVGA 980Ti's under water. At least one. Kraken G10 bracket, a H55 and some copper sinks on the VRMs. Card is happy @ 1500 boost, no voltage added, 41C max load. Was @ 79-81C prior to the switch and would not hold 1500 boost. Had a bad post on the other G10 bracket, so will put the replacement on Monday.
 
I think I hit the jackpot. I just got a 2nd EVGA 980 TI Hybrid a few days ago with an ASIC score of 83.9%. I have been able to get it to pass firestrike at1628 MHZ, but it wasn't the most stable. I have been rock solid stable for the last few days, playing GTA V, Fallout 4, Battlefield 4, Elite Dangerous, and Star Citizen with a rock solid stable overclock of 1602 Mhz core at 1.275v (always boost bios flashed) and +310 mhz on the memory (pretty sure I could push memory further but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference)

By comparison, my first 980 TI hybrid has an ASIC score of 63.9% and is only able to overclock to 1445 Mhz at 1.275v which seems to be a little less than average, and kind of lame all things considered. I played with the overclock on this card for DAYS on end and couldn't push it any further. I got 1602 on the 2nd card with only about an hour of tweaking.

I haven't heard of many cards that are stable above 1500 mhz, much less 1600 mhz. Has anyone else had similar results? Firestrike score posted below. I will run other tests if you guys want, but I am fairly new to overclocking and I don't have licences to many of the popular benchmarking tools.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9414993?
 
Going to start the fun soon, just got a Hydro Copper, stock boost goes to 1405mhz and 7~Ghzish ram. Will push it but with stock BIOS for the moment, I only play Ark Survival Evolved as a top-end performance game, and I get around 30-40fps all maxed out @1200p so its fine (its a very demanding game in Alpha state, so improvement in performance is coming).

BF4, Battlefront and such go beyond any FPS amount I'm going to need hahah
 
Happymanny1986 said:
I think I hit the jackpot. I just got a 2nd EVGA 980 TI Hybrid a few days ago with an ASIC score of 83.9%. I have been able to get it to pass firestrike at1628 MHZ, but it wasn't the most stable. I have been rock solid stable for the last few days, playing GTA V, Fallout 4, Battlefield 4, Elite Dangerous, and Star Citizen with a rock solid stable overclock of 1602 Mhz core at 1.275v (always boost bios flashed) and +310 mhz on the memory (pretty sure I could push memory further but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference)

By comparison, my first 980 TI hybrid has an ASIC score of 63.9% and is only able to overclock to 1445 Mhz at 1.275v which seems to be a little less than average, and kind of lame all things considered. I played with the overclock on this card for DAYS on end and couldn't push it any further. I got 1602 on the 2nd card with only about an hour of tweaking.

I haven't heard of many cards that are stable above 1500 mhz, much less 1600 mhz. Has anyone else had similar results? Firestrike score posted below. I will run other tests if you guys want, but I am fairly new to overclocking and I don't have licences to many of the popular benchmarking tools.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9414993?
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1600 core? Crazy!!!! Winning the lottery must be nice...
 
So I got a great deal on the MSI Armor 2x 980ti like 2 weeks ago. Sadly, the cooler is woefully inadequate as it can't keep the card from throttling even at 100% fan speed.

Newegg fought me at first but has now agreed to give me a store credit for the card and let me purchase another (originally they just wanted to send me the same card again, which I wasn't happy about)

So, knowing what I know now, I'll just spend the extra ~100 bucks on a good thermal solution.

So, suggestions from those in this thread? Looking to OC the card (but on stock volts) as I'm trying to power a 1440p gsync predator with 1 card, so it needs to be beast as possible while staying cool enough not to throttle.

My initial thoughts were a classified from EVGA, the AMP extreme from Zotac, the G1 gaming from gigabyte, the strix from asus, or for a bit more money, the hybrid from EVGA.

Thoughts?
 
[L]imey;1042032708 said:
So I got a great deal on the MSI Armor 2x 980ti like 2 weeks ago. Sadly, the cooler is woefully inadequate as it can't keep the card from throttling even at 100% fan speed.

Newegg fought me at first but has now agreed to give me a store credit for the card and let me purchase another (originally they just wanted to send me the same card again, which I wasn't happy about)

So, knowing what I know now, I'll just spend the extra ~100 bucks on a good thermal solution.

So, suggestions from those in this thread? Looking to OC the card (but on stock volts) as I'm trying to power a 1440p gsync predator with 1 card, so it needs to be beast as possible while staying cool enough not to throttle.

My initial thoughts were a classified from EVGA, the AMP extreme from Zotac, the G1 gaming from gigabyte, the strix from asus, or for a bit more money, the hybrid from EVGA.

Thoughts?
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Probably badly pasted. Cooler looks decent

Chris_B said:
How much difference is 1500-1600 going to make in games though||? 1-2 fps?
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significant. It makes a very tangible difference. 7% can do a lot
 
Happymanny1986 said:
I think I hit the jackpot. I just got a 2nd EVGA 980 TI Hybrid a few days ago with an ASIC score of 83.9%. I have been able to get it to pass firestrike at1628 MHZ, but it wasn't the most stable. I have been rock solid stable for the last few days, playing GTA V, Fallout 4, Battlefield 4, Elite Dangerous, and Star Citizen with a rock solid stable overclock of 1602 Mhz core at 1.275v (always boost bios flashed) and +310 mhz on the memory (pretty sure I could push memory further but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference)

By comparison, my first 980 TI hybrid has an ASIC score of 63.9% and is only able to overclock to 1445 Mhz at 1.275v which seems to be a little less than average, and kind of lame all things considered. I played with the overclock on this card for DAYS on end and couldn't push it any further. I got 1602 on the 2nd card with only about an hour of tweaking.

I haven't heard of many cards that are stable above 1500 mhz, much less 1600 mhz. Has anyone else had similar results? Firestrike score posted below. I will run other tests if you guys want, but I am fairly new to overclocking and I don't have licences to many of the popular benchmarking tools.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9414993?
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You've hit the silicon lottery jackpot. First time I'm hearing of a 1600 gaming stable 980 TI.
 
[L]imey;1042032708 said:
So I got a great deal on the MSI Armor 2x 980ti like 2 weeks ago. Sadly, the cooler is woefully inadequate as it can't keep the card from throttling even at 100% fan speed.

Newegg fought me at first but has now agreed to give me a store credit for the card and let me purchase another (originally they just wanted to send me the same card again, which I wasn't happy about)

So, knowing what I know now, I'll just spend the extra ~100 bucks on a good thermal solution.

So, suggestions from those in this thread? Looking to OC the card (but on stock volts) as I'm trying to power a 1440p gsync predator with 1 card, so it needs to be beast as possible while staying cool enough not to throttle.

My initial thoughts were a classified from EVGA, the AMP extreme from Zotac, the G1 gaming from gigabyte, the strix from asus, or for a bit more money, the hybrid from EVGA.

Thoughts?
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I would definitely not suggest the Gigabyte G1. Gigabyte's binning is trash (you're essentially buying a stock card for a higher price), and the cooler is... okay (it's mediocre). Strix I would not suggest simply because of ASUS's wonderful RMA service. The only reason I'm fine with my G1 (well the second one I swapped to) was because I got it for like 520 (550 after tax) with a rebate and game coupon. Otherwise I would definitely not have kept it.

The Zotac AMP Extreme from my experience is an excellent card; I only returned mine because of fan rattle. Pretty much the highest stock clock available (which is all you're guaranteed on any of these cards). Considering that the stock clock on the AMP Extreme is so high, the card generally has to be better binned to handle them, too. Mine boosted to 1442 out of the box (which is great; my first G1 couldn't even handle that =_=; ), and could go up to 1500 without too much issue.

The Classy is also a great card. Its stock clocks aren't as high as the Extreme, though (kind of important if you suck at the silicon lottery). Also EVGA put a very conservative fan profile on it. It throttles itself on stock fans (or at least mine did) because EVGA made the thing cap out at like 30% fan or something at stock. But the one I had from Amazon's open box deals was pretty good. ~82% ASIC and it was Firestrike stable at 1572. Though it took a lot of lowering on that speed to get it truly long term stable.

TL;DR, I'd go with the Classy or the AMP Extreme. I'd lean towards the AMP Extreme because it has such high base clocks. IMO the higher the base clocks, the better the binning will be (at least whatever binning they do...). I think MSI also has some high stock clock options right now, but they're pretty high priced.

Disclaimer: These experiences are my own only... that being said I've seen a decent amount of other people that were dissatisfied with the G1 lottery, so that much is kind of...

Chris_B said:
How much difference is 1500-1600 going to make in games though||? 1-2 fps?
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Here are some tests from when I ran my Classy at both stock and +130 (which is ~1570 boost):
Stock:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9057550?

1572:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6330893

The difference depends on what FPS you're running at, but really it's kind of insignificant. I mean statistically it's a significant difference, but perceptually? Probably not worth really worrying over. All of these OCs are mostly e-peen, but I still wouldn't want to get a non-stock, higher-price cards that did not overclock decently.
 
Happymanny1986 said:
I think I hit the jackpot. I just got a 2nd EVGA 980 TI Hybrid a few days ago with an ASIC score of 83.9%. I have been able to get it to pass firestrike at1628 MHZ, but it wasn't the most stable. I have been rock solid stable for the last few days, playing GTA V, Fallout 4, Battlefield 4, Elite Dangerous, and Star Citizen with a rock solid stable overclock of 1602 Mhz core at 1.275v (always boost bios flashed) and +310 mhz on the memory (pretty sure I could push memory further but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference)

By comparison, my first 980 TI hybrid has an ASIC score of 63.9% and is only able to overclock to 1445 Mhz at 1.275v which seems to be a little less than average, and kind of lame all things considered. I played with the overclock on this card for DAYS on end and couldn't push it any further. I got 1602 on the 2nd card with only about an hour of tweaking.

I haven't heard of many cards that are stable above 1500 mhz, much less 1600 mhz. Has anyone else had similar results? Firestrike score posted below. I will run other tests if you guys want, but I am fairly new to overclocking and I don't have licences to many of the popular benchmarking tools.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9414993?
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So something I've been wondering, I have only reached a max core clock of 1265MHz (according to 3Dmark) on my 980 ti Hybrid. However how is it that my Firestrike scores are so much higher than people who reach much higher clocks than me? http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6797992
 
typical end user error and misinterpreted results.. you are checking GLOBAL/Overall 3dMark result, when in fact you have to check and compare Graphic results, your overall 3dMark score its higher because you are running an i7 5930K which score(17348 physic Score) way higher than his i7 4770K(13168) and have a huge impact in the overall 3dMark result. but his Graphic Score is 22485 versus your 20954. so yes his score are better than your, but also don't forget to check REAL boost clock with a 3rd party app like GPU-Z or MSI afterburner, because most of the time 3dMark system information service doesn't read correctly the boost clock.
 
Got my new hybrid installed last night. Does 1526 boost on the stock voltage. (haven't pushed it at all yet) Stays at 50 degrees in the new matx enclosure I put it in.

Love it.
 
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