MSI GTX780 Lightning Review

Test Setup

MSI GTX780 Lightning
Intel Core i7-3960X @ 4.6GHz
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
Corsair Dominator Platinum
Corsair AX1200i
Corsair Neutron GTX
Corsair H100i
Windows 7 x64 

Overclocking

Firstly there are a lot of tweaks you can make with the Afterburner software and the Lightning, as you’d expect. Just upping the power percentage and clock we already broke through the factory overclock at 1130MHz. Although we’d be disappointed if we couldn’t out-perform the factory clock.

Just increasing the available power and letting the GPU Boost 2.0 software work out the rest and we get a similar boost in performance, up to 1123MHz on the GPU core.

Combining all our tweaks, and saving you the hours between the various stages, we finally have our bench clock. An outstanding 1267MHz GPU Boost clock and a very healthy 200MHz, 800MHz effective, increase on the GDDR5. This should see a nice batch of benchmarks, and we’re expecting a couple of our single-GPU records to fall.