EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ Review

May 8, 2015 | 12:42

Tags: #best-gtx-970 #factory-overclock #graphics-card #gtx-970 #maxwell

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EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ 4GB Overclocking Results

Using EVGA's excellent Precision X software, we began as ever by ramping up the power and temperature limits to their maximums – 110 percent and 91°C.

This allowed us to add 130MHz to the core, for a base clock of 1,320MHz, an 11 percent increase. This also represents a huge 26 percent increase over reference speeds. The boost clock was rated at 1,472MHz, and the card actually managed a little higher than this, hitting a constant 1,497MHz under load. We've seen other GTX 970s boost to over 1,500MHz a fair few times, but this is still an excellent result.

The memory overclocked very nicely as well, all the way to a staggering 8.1GHz, which is a 16 percent boost. It was even bench-stable at 8.2GHz, but not without artifacts, so we dialled it back a step.

Overclocking - Battlefield 4

2,560 x 1,440, DirectX 11, 'Ultra' Settings

  • AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB
  • EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ 4GB (OC)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
  • EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G 4GB (factory overclocked)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
  • MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2G 2GB (factory overclocked)
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Overclocking - Crysis 3

2,560 x 1,440, 0x AA, 16x AF, 'Very High' Settings

  • AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB
  • EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ 4GB (OC)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB
  • EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G 4GB (factory overclocked)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
  • MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2G 2GB (factory overclocked)
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    • 80
    • 57
    • 67
    • 43
    • 52
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Overclocking - Unigine Valley 1.0

2,560 x 1,440, 0x AA, 'Ultra' Quality

  • AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB
  • EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ 4GB (OC)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
  • EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ 4GB
  • MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G 4GB (factory overclocked)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2G 2GB (factory overclocked)
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    • 3163
    • 3082
    • 3000
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