ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Review

ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Overclocking

So now it’s time to see how far we can push this card before it gives out on us. I started out small going for an overclock of 950 MHz on the core as always and I left the memory at its stock 1050. I had no problems, so I decided to push a little further and I took it up to 975 MHz with the memory at 1050 MHz just to be safe. Again, I had no problems. So, then I decided to see if I could get over 1 GHz. As you can see from the screen shot below, I did. I was able to reach 1034 MHz on the core and 1050 MHz on the memory with the voltage bumped up to 1.275 Volts.

For all of the overclocking duties I employed the use of the ASUS Smart Doctor utility as this utility allowed me to adjust the voltage settings as well as the GPU core and the memory clock speeds.

I ran the Aliens vs. Predator Benchmark to see what the difference would be with an overclock that was right at the 1034 Mhz mark. As you can see, there was a noticeable 3 FPS difference from its stock setting of 915 MHz at 1920×1080, which is not too terribly much for an 118 MHz overclock. I think I expected more frames than that. Even though I tried to push the card further it just wouldn’t budge no matter what settings I changed. Below you can see the results of the overclocking compared to the stock settings of the ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Direct CU Video Card.