World Record: Galaxy GTX 780 HOF Overclocked to 1.85 GHz

A team of overclockers from HKEPC -- Mad222, Stephen Yeong, John Lam, and Mr. Wong -- have set a world record for overclocking the GTX 780 graphics card. Using liquid nitrogen, they have managed to get the card to outperform even the dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990, using the single-chip GTX 780.

The clock speed they have achieved is 1855.2 MHz GPU; they got the memory running at an effective speed of 7.4 GHz. At these speeds the card scored a grand total of 41,180 points in the 3DMark Cloud Gate benchmark, which is a very, very respectable number, and according to other sources, even a world record for single GPU performance. For comparison, the GTX Titan scores about 27,000 points stock, and the Radeon HD 7990 scores around 32,000 points, all with a degree of variation depending on the configuration used.

The CPU used for the benchmark was an Intel Core i7-3960X, which was clocked at 5.5 GHz.

Niels Broekhuijsen

Niels Broekhuijsen is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He reviews cases, water cooling and pc builds.

  • ayushde
    That's what you call a real good overclock.....would have loved to see some gaming benchmarks with that card....:P
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  • ayushde
    And BTW even the 3960x overclock was very impressive.....
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  • mapesdhs
    Why did they use Cloud Gate? Surely Fire Strike would have been more appropriate
    for hardware of that calibre?

    Ian.

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  • x2ruff4u
    But can it run Mine Sweeper?
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  • JOSHSKORN
    I wonder what this does for Crysis. :P
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  • The_Trutherizer
    yep. real good overclock, but with the tech needed to achieve it, it definitely costs more than a 7990 :P
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  • ojas
    @mapesdhs: Probably not that stable!
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  • ojas
    But damn, this is 4.34x faster than my GTX 560!
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  • 06yfz450ridr
    not bad still beat by the 7970 by about 13k points

    http://hwbot.org/submission/2337511_rbuass_3dmark_vantage___performance_radeon_hd_7970_55705_marks
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  • bigb0096
    11042668 said:
    not bad still beat by the 7970 by about 13k points

    http://hwbot.org/submission/2337511_rbuass_3dmark_vantage___performance_radeon_hd_7970_55705_marks

    Nice try, but you can't compare 3dmark Vantage results with 3dmark Cloud Gate results.

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