Overclocking
Frankly with the Toxic, the overclock that comes with the card is better than I would expect to run on most cards. So the way I looked at getting even more out of the Toxic is everything else is a bonus. Even still I went into this like any other card, starting with the GPU overclock and then going into the memory overclock. With the GPU overclock I started at 1200MHz and had good luck. After that my next run at 1300MHz failed meaning our end result would be in between the two. In the end I was only able to get 1225MHz, a respectable number but it does make it obvious that Sapphire had already pushed the card fairly far. This is the exact same number that I got out of the Asus 280X as well.
Memory overclocking didn’t go as smoothly. I started at 1800MHz and struggled to get past that at all. In the end I was able to edge in 1825MHz. That ends up being a clock speed of 7300MHz but that is still a tad lower than the Asus card. I did run the memory overclock together with the GPU clock from before with no crashes or issues.
GPU Clock Speed Overclocking |
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GPU Clock Speed |
Pass/Fail |
FPS Result |
Notes |
1200MHz |
Pass |
60.71 |
|
1300MHz |
Fail |
N/A |
Lockup |
1225MHz |
Pass |
61.84 |
|
1250MHz |
Fail |
N/A |
Lockup |
1235MHz |
Fail |
N/A |
Lockup |
Memory Clock Offset Overclocking |
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Memory Clock Speed |
Pass/Fail |
FPS Result |
Notes |
1800MHz |
Pass |
58.98 |
|
2000MHz |
Fail |
N/A |
Blank Screen |
1900MHz |
Fail |
N/A |
Blank Screen |
1850MHz |
Fail |
N/A |
Blank Screen |
1825MHz |
Pass |
58.97 |
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Combined GPU and Memory overclocks together |
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GPU Clock Speed |
Memory Clock Speed |
FPS Result |
Notes |
1225MHz |
1825MHz |
62.55 |