EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified ACX 2.0+ Review

We know that the GM200 GPU has far more headroom in it than reference or board partner speeds would suggest, so we pushed to see how far we could overclock EVGA's GTX 980 Ti Classified graphics card.

Adding an extra 100MHz onto a core which is already overclocked 190MHz beyond reference is a good result. We saw the core clock hit 1492MHz and stabilise there while gaming. EVGA tells us that they expect the board to be capable of core clocks around the 1500-1550MHz mark without any additional voltage being applied.

The memory frequency boost was particularly impressive, at 350MHz. This netted us a final memory data rate of 8.4Gbps effective.

Our straightforward overclock rendered performance boosts of 12% in 3DMark and 10% for GTA V. Maximum board power consumption also increased by around 30W and the core ran 1°C hotter while also increasing fan speed by three percentage points.

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