We use MSI Afterburner to test overclocking capabilities of the GTX 970 DirectCU Mini.


There is surprisingly quite a lot of headroom on the core, a little over 11% in our testing. Boost speed was increased to 1,351mhz.


Pushing the core speed reaps good reward. The 3DMark 11 graphics score increases from 14,595 points to 15,696 points.
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Hmm You mean 3GB GDDR5 + 1GB DDR3 😉 New nV feature to cut down performance lol
Oh my god would you stop with that already. Jesus fucking Christ, that’s all people talk about anymore. Hop on the 3gb bandwagon. Nobody is complaining about the titan x only having a 256 bit memory bus width, with 12 Gb of VRAM, the bottleneck doesn’t get much tighter than that.
Uhm, it’s 3.5gb actually. If you’re gonna troll, at least make an effort.