Overclocking

To find the maximum overclocks of our Zotac 8800 GTS 512 MB we used Rivatuner to set the clocks and ATITool to check for errors. Rivatuner 2.06 will work fine with the 8800 GTS, you just have to edit rivatuner.cfg and add the device 0600 to the G92 detection list.



The final overclocks of our card are 733 MHz Core (13 % overclock) and 1086 MHz Memory (12 % overclock). Those are very impressive numbers I must say. NVIDIA's 8800 GT had reference clocks of 600 MHz with vendor overclocked versions around 700 MHz. Since our sample easily handles this clock speed it seems that NVIDIA binned the "good" G92s for the GTS and the ones which couldn't clock as well were used on the 8800 GT.


Even though a two slot cooler is installed, the card gets pretty warm during heavy use. On the other hand the cooler is not too loud so it seems NVIDIA sacrificed some temperature for a quieter experience.