Every time a new graphics card comes out, especially one based on a new architecture such as Nvidia's GTX 580, early adopters and overclockers alike have to get over all sort of problems if they want to squeeze the maximum performance possible out of their brand spanking new GPU, so we are going t make this whole process a lot easier for all those of you GTX 580 owners out there that find themselves stuck in such a situation.Īll the info that is shared in this article comes from Softpedia's own experiments with the GTX 580, Nvidia's graphics card making its way into our test labs just a few days ago.įor now we are going to limit ourselves to this overclocking tutorial as more info about the GTX 580 architecture as well as its performances will be covered in our review, that is bound to hit real soon.īut getting back to the matter at hand, the first thing that I am going to do is to take a quick look at the card's default clocks to see where we stand.Īs you can certainly see for yourself the GTX 580's default core clock is set at 772MHz, its memory being clocked at 1002MHz (4008MHz data rate) while the shader clock runs at 1544MHz, being set at double the core's frequency, as its the case with all Fermi based video cards.Īs in the GF100, this can't be altered by itself, so overclocking these cards is a matter of changing only two frequencies as well as the core's voltage.Īnd here is where we came into our first hurdle with overclocking the GTX 580, as voltage tuning utilities that support Nvidia's new GF110 core are really scarce at this time.Īs a hardware reviewer, one runs into this sort of situations all the time, limited software support being one of the main reasons why overclocking results are not covered by every single review out there, especially when we are talking about new architectures that usually come with pre-production drivers and the like.
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