Legit Video Card Reviews

XFX and Palit GeForce 9800 GTX Video Cards

Manufacturer: XFX
Product: GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB Video Cards
Date: Tue, Apr 01, 2008 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Overclocking

To overclock the Palit and XFX GeForce 9800 GTX graphics cards we ended up using Vtune, which comes with the Palit graphcis card.

Overclocking The GeForce 9800 GTX Video Card

The stock settings are shown above and we aimed to overclock from there using this easy software tool.

Overclocking The GeForce 9800 GTX Video Card

We were able to take the core from 675MHz all the way up to 800MHz and the memory from 1100MHz to 1200MHz with little effort.  The most impressive part of the overclock though was the improvement on the shaders.  We were able to overclock the shaders from 1688MHz to an impressive 2025MHz! This was the highest stable overclock we were able to get.  We got a few benchmarks to run at 800/1250/2100, but the system would crash or lockup during testing. These are great overclocking results!

Benchmarking:

Overclocking The GeForce 9800 GTX Video Card

Using S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to test out the overclock we were able to notice a 15.4% performance improvement on the GeForce 9800 GTX! The GeForce 9800 GTX overclocks really good from what we have found on our two cards.

Next Page - Power Consumption and Final Thoughts


Review Index
Page 1 - NVIDIA Introduces The GeForce 9800 GTX
Page 2 - GeForce 9800 GTX Features
Page 3 - Under The GeForce 9800 GTX Heat Spreader
Page 4 - Palit GeForce 9800 GTX Box & Bundle
Page 5 - XFX GeForce 9800 GTX Box & Bundle
Page 6 - The Test System
Page 7 - Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Page 8 - Company of Heroes
Page 9 - World in Conflict
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Page 11 - BioShock
Page 12 - Crysis
Page 13 - Call of Duty 4
Page 14 - 3DMark 2006
Page 15 - Lightsmark 2007
Page 16 - Temperatures
Page 17 - Overclocking
Page 18 - Power Consumption and Final Thoughts