Our stability testing was done with Metro: Last Light, a demanding PC game that quickly allows us to enter a repeating benchmark mode. Hence, we are only reporting a single maximum GPU and memory clock speed for each card. In my testing the GPUs were able to maintain their peak clock rate in perpetuity – they don't seem to waver or bounce around in the way we are used to seeing cards like the GTX 780 do. Because the three different GTX 960 options have different starting base and Boost clocks, our offsets ranged from +210 MHz down to +140 MHz, though the resulting clock rates are very close.

Rather than reporting GPU or memory offset results, our graphs will show the peak frequency that was reached as a result of the offset. (The only difference between the Gaming and 100ME MSI cards is the color of the cooler.) The ASUS models are all STRIX models, the EVGA cards are of the SSC variety, and the MSI cards include a single Gaming model and three 100ME. Our collection of thirteen GTX 960 cards includes a handful from ASUS, EVGA and MSI. I think you will find the data interesting.

Hopefully we will be able to provide a solid base of knowledge for buyers of the GTX 960 that we don't normally have the opportunity to offer: what is the range of overclocking you can expect and what is the average or median result.

An interesting idea was proposed during the event – what would happen if we tried to overclock all of the product NVIDIA had brought along to see what the distribution of results looked like? After notifying all the winners of their prizes and asking for permission from each, we started the arduous process of testing and overclocking a total of 13 (10 prizes plus our 3 retail units already in the office) different GTX 960 cards. During the event, NVIDIA and its partners provided ten GTX 960 cards for our live viewers to win which we handed out through about an hour and a half. A baker’s dozen of GTX 960 When you have this kind of hardware on hand, you might as well overclock it.īack on the launch day of the GeForce GTX 960, we hosted NVIDIA's Tom Petersen for a live stream.

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