Overclocking Performance:

Overclocking the graphics card is something that every enthusiast does, so it becomes important to find the highest clock speeds that can be obtained by the GPU as well as the RAM on the card. NVIDIA’s 6800 Vanilla cards are known to overclock tremendously high, as high as 25 percent in most cases, which led to high hopes right from the beginning.

We run stressful game demos to determine the stability of the card. Our stressful demos include Doom III, Half-Life 2 (recently added to our suite of tests), Far Cry, and few others. This allows us to make sure that the card performs without image artifacts and it proportionately renders the image throughout our overclocking tests.

As always, our first assignment is to determine the GPU and RAM speeds on a separate basis. After finding this, we were able to find the sweet spot between the two and reach the card’s maximum performance limit. Powerstrip was used to alter the speeds.

Thanks to Albatron’s copper, active heatsink, we had no troubles finding the right mixture of GPU and RAM speeds. Since we already had a hint of 6800 Vanilla’s overclocking capabilities, we decided to work with clock speeds around 800MHz for GPU and 400MHz for RAM. This seems to be the sweet spot for every 6800 Vanilla in the market.

After testing for sometime, we ultimately decided on 885MHz for GPU and 407MHz for RAM. At these settings, the card performed flawlessly and excelled through all tests with image rendering or system lock-up issues.

As we have previously outlined before, 880MHz for GPU and 400MHz for RAM is the central point of maximum overclocking results. After testing few cards and making sure that they all reached such overclocking results, it is safe to assume that majority of 6800 Vanillas will overclock around 25 percent higher than their stock speeds.

For Albatron Trinity 6800, we managed to gain 25.7 percent higher clock speeds from our GPU and 25.2 percent from the RAM. Clearly, every 6800 Vanilla is a winner, overclocking wise.