Palit GTX 560 Sonic Platinum: overclock
As we got to understand, Nvidia has left large margin of freedom to the AIB partners with regard to the operating frequencies. We wanted to further push the card produced by Palit and see the limit of the core and memory frequencies.
Overclocking was then performed using the Afterburn MSI software, the heir of Riva Tuner, which is very comprehensive and easy to use.
The first test was to use the default vGPU which in our case, as we noted by MSI Afterburner, is set to 1,000 V. This allowed us to reach a frequency of 950 MHz for the graphics core and 1900 MHz for the shaders, in full stability; you can see the screen performed with these settings:
We brought the GPU voltage to 1,087 V (from 1,000 V default on Afterburn MSI) and then we have increased frequencies to reach 1000 MHz on the GPU and 2000MHz for the shaders. Unfortunately it was not possible to overclock the memory as soon as they lifted their operating frequencies of even a few MHz, the system presented artifacts, so they were left to operate at their default 4200MHz frequency:
