Legit Video Card Reviews
ATI Radeon HD 5870 DX11 Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | AMD |
| Product: | Radeon HD 5870 |
| Date: | Tue, Sep 22, 2009 - 11:00 PM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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Overclocking
To overclock the ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card, we used the ATI Overdrive utility that is part of the CATALYST Control Center. When you 'unlock' the ATI Overdrive, you can manually set the clock and memory settings or let the 'auto-tune' utility set the frequencies for you.
Just for fun, we tried out the auto-tune feature to see if it could really find a stable clock configuration, and it worked in just a few minutes and did not lock up the system. This utility determines the highest core and memory clock frequency that is stable and shows you what the GPU temperature is and how much load the GPU is under during testing.
I started out at the default settings of 850MHz on the core and 1200MHz on the memory, but was able to reach 890MHz on the core and 1290MHz on the GDDR5 memory. This is a 40MHz overclock on the core and a 90MHz boost on the GDDR5 memory ICs.
To test out the overclock we fired up 3DMark Vantage and manually set the fans at 100% just to be sure heat wasn't an issue when benchmarking at this overclock.
The ATI Radeon HD 5870 Video Card Stock 850MHz/1200MHz:
The ATI Radeon HD 5870 Video Card Overclocked 890MHz/1290MHz:
Running 3DMark Vantage with the Extreme preset we got a score of X8238. The score went up X8683 3DMarks when overclocked, which was an improvement of 5.4% with this mild overclock.
Next Page - Extreme Overclocking
| Review Index |
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Page 1 - The World's First DX11 GPU
Page 2 - The Radeon HD 5870 Page 3 - Radeon HD 5870 With No HSF Page 4 - The Test System Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum Page 6 - Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Page 7 - Need For Speed: Shift‎ Page 8 - Resident Evil 5 Page 9 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. Page 10 - 3DMark Vantage Page 11 - FurMark 1.7.0 Page 12 - Temperature Testing Page 13 - Power Consumption Page 14 - Overclocking Page 15 - Extreme Overclocking Page 16 - Bitstream Audio Testing Page 17 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
