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How to Overclock Gtx 980 ti so it imitates specs of Nvidia Geforce GTX TITAN X??

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#1 ·
Hi All

I have a gtx 980 ti classified and noticed that the main difference between the Titan x and my card is in the Cuda cores

The titan x has: 3,072 CUDA Cores

and

Gtx 980 ti classified has: 2,816 CUDA Cores

Can I overclock my card to achieve the same Cuda cores as the Titan?

Secondly is there a X.M.P profile for Graphics card that I can enable just like I did on my Rams?

Thank you!
 
#2 ·
No, the number of CUDA cores is a physical characteristic of the card. It would be like asking if you could overclock a dual core CPU so that it has 4 cores. Overclocking is the act of changing the clock speed.

No, there's nothing like X.M.P. for video cards. Video cards don't need a thing like that.
 
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Originally Posted by TwoCables View Post

No, the number of CUDA cores is a physical characteristic of the card. It would be like asking if you could overclock a dual core CPU so that it has 4 cores. Overclocking is the act of changing the clock speed.

No, there's nothing like X.M.P. for video cards. Video cards don't need a thing like that.
cool good to hear from you Two cables how are you?
 
#4 ·
Two Cables hit it on the head. Of course you can OC core to match and beat the Titan X though, but as far as unlocking Cuda cores you're looking at the wrong company for that, they learned back in the unlocking 6800 to 6800GT or Ultra days etc to laser cut and lock all that extra goodness.

Now AMD on the other hand.....
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#6 ·
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Originally Posted by TAr View Post

Whats the stable over clock i can do using evga precision for 980 ti?
It's pretty common 1500MHz is attainable or there abouts.
 
#8 ·
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Originally Posted by Adam R View Post

and what will that achieve? And what is the default MHz for the Gtx 980 to Classified?
I don't follow, what do you mean "what will that achieve?" If you raise your Base/Boost clock you'll get more performance in situations when you can use it or need it. And all the clocks vary even on the 980 series like base being around 1130'ish and Classified being around 1300'ish MHz. Not sure what that even has to do with a Ti variant but ok.
 
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It's pretty common 1500MHz is attainable or there abouts.
Mid 1400mhz is the common clock to achieve if you can keep temp under 70C. If you cant keep it under 70C it will throttle.
Poor clockers arnt even getting to 1400mhz with golden chips and cherry picked aftermarket cards making it to 1500mhz.
Need about 1380mhz to match a Titan X performance when its not throttling from stock boost.
 
#10 ·
that's there abouts right
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#14 ·
To provide more information:

Overclocking is raising the frequency of a GPU to achieve more performance.

Unlocking is usually flashing the BIOS of a card with the BIOS of a better card (e.g. Titan X) in order to unlock more shaders (CUDA cores).

When GPUs are made, sometimes the extra shaders are simply disabled in BIOS and the card is sold as a lesser card, for example the AMD 6970 had shaders disabled and it was sold as a 6950. This means the card had the same amount of physical shaders but they were locked off through software (BIOS). However, sometimes when they do this, instead of locking off the shaders through the BIOS they physically destroy them by cutting them with a laser. This is called a hardware lock. In the case of a hardware lock, nothing you can do will reenable the extra shaders.

Some recent cards to be unlockable are the AMD Radeon 6950 (to a 6970) and the AMD R9 290 (to a 290X). In both cases, certain cards (but not all) were unlockable by flashing the BIOS of the higher end card. (putting a 290X BIOS on a 290 if that was unclear.) It was basically totally random which cards were unlockable and they developed a tool/method for testing whether or not a card would unlock. There WERE some patterns observed though, early on, with the R9 290: reference Powercolor brand 290s had a good chance of unlocking.

Unfortunately, I cannot think of an Nvidia card in recent memory that has been unlockable through software (BIOS). If anyone can provide an example from the last 5 years, please speak up.

Rest assured, however: the 980ti is a fantastic card and pretty much 97% of a Titan X. Those extra shaders only add around 3-5% performance. As others have mentioned, through overclocking you can make up this small difference (in comparison to a stock Titan X without boost) by overclocking the card. So if your 980ti is at 1300mhz+ you pretty much have Titan X performance anyway (minus the larger frame buffer I believe).

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#15 ·
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Originally Posted by neurotix View Post

To provide more information:

Overclocking is raising the frequency of a GPU to achieve more performance.

Unlocking is usually flashing the BIOS of a card with the BIOS of a better card (e.g. Titan X) in order to unlock more shaders (CUDA cores).

When GPUs are made, sometimes the extra shaders are simply disabled in BIOS and the card is sold as a lesser card, for example the AMD 6970 had shaders disabled and it was sold as a 6950. This means the card had the same amount of physical shaders but they were locked off through software (BIOS). However, sometimes when they do this, instead of locking off the shaders through the BIOS they physically destroy them by cutting them with a laser. This is called a hardware lock. In the case of a hardware lock, nothing you can do will reenable the extra shaders.

Some recent cards to be unlockable are the AMD Radeon 6950 (to a 6970) and the AMD R9 290 (to a 290X). In both cases, certain cards (but not all) were unlockable by flashing the BIOS of the higher end card. (putting a 290X BIOS on a 290 if that was unclear.) It was basically totally random which cards were unlockable and they developed a tool/method for testing whether or not a card would unlock. There WERE some patterns observed though, early on, with the R9 290: reference Powercolor brand 290s had a good chance of unlocking.

Unfortunately, I cannot think of an Nvidia card in recent memory that has been unlockable through software (BIOS). If anyone can provide an example from the last 5 years, please speak up.

Rest assured, however: the 980ti is a fantastic card and pretty much 97% of a Titan X. Those extra shaders only add around 3-5% performance. As others have mentioned, through overclocking you can make up this small difference (in comparison to a stock Titan X without boost) by overclocking the card. So if your 980ti is at 1300mhz+ you pretty much have Titan X performance anyway (minus the larger frame buffer I believe).

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Originally Posted by neurotix View Post

To provide more information:

Overclocking is raising the frequency of a GPU to achieve more performance.

Unlocking is usually flashing the BIOS of a card with the BIOS of a better card (e.g. Titan X) in order to unlock more shaders (CUDA cores).

When GPUs are made, sometimes the extra shaders are simply disabled in BIOS and the card is sold as a lesser card, for example the AMD 6970 had shaders disabled and it was sold as a 6950. This means the card had the same amount of physical shaders but they were locked off through software (BIOS). However, sometimes when they do this, instead of locking off the shaders through the BIOS they physically destroy them by cutting them with a laser. This is called a hardware lock. In the case of a hardware lock, nothing you can do will reenable the extra shaders.

Some recent cards to be unlockable are the AMD Radeon 6950 (to a 6970) and the AMD R9 290 (to a 290X). In both cases, certain cards (but not all) were unlockable by flashing the BIOS of the higher end card. (putting a 290X BIOS on a 290 if that was unclear.) It was basically totally random which cards were unlockable and they developed a tool/method for testing whether or not a card would unlock. There WERE some patterns observed though, early on, with the R9 290: reference Powercolor brand 290s had a good chance of unlocking.

Unfortunately, I cannot think of an Nvidia card in recent memory that has been unlockable through software (BIOS). If anyone can provide an example from the last 5 years, please speak up.

Rest assured, however: the 980ti is a fantastic card and pretty much 97% of a Titan X. Those extra shaders only add around 3-5% performance. As others have mentioned, through overclocking you can make up this small difference (in comparison to a stock Titan X without boost) by overclocking the card. So if your 980ti is at 1300mhz+ you pretty much have Titan X performance anyway (minus the larger frame buffer I believe).

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Dude thanks for the explanation
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. So what I have picked up is my gtx 980 ti is fine as it is. no need to overclock........ Correct?
 
#16 ·
Yep, you may accidentally gry it as it seems you are still novice

Plus a 980 ti is one of the pinnacles of an gpu
 
#17 ·
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Originally Posted by Adam R View Post

Dude thanks for the explanation
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. So what I have picked up is my gtx 980 ti is fine as it is. no need to overclock........ Correct?
No.

Overclock the crap out of it.

It's Maxwell (Nvidia architecture) which means it overclocks like a beast.

I would suggest trying MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision and see if you can set the boost clock to 1300mhz or above. You might not even need to add voltage if you do it this way.

I guess it kind of depends on things like what games you play and what resolution you're using. If you're still on 1080p then there's probably no point in overclocking it because it's probably going to run every game out there on max or near max settings with stuff like HBAO+, Hairworks, Depth of Field and so on.

If you're at higher than 1080p then you probably want the extra performance, especially in more recent games.

The things I could do with a 980ti lol
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#18 ·
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Originally Posted by neurotix View Post

No.

Overclock the crap out of it.

It's Maxwell (Nvidia architecture) which means it overclocks like a beast.

I would suggest trying MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision and see if you can set the boost clock to 1300mhz or above. You might not even need to add voltage if you do it this way.

I guess it kind of depends on things like what games you play and what resolution you're using. If you're still on 1080p then there's probably no point in overclocking it because it's probably going to run every game out there on max or near max settings with stuff like HBAO+, Hairworks, Depth of Field and so on.

If you're at higher than 1080p then you probably want the extra performance, especially in more recent games.

The things I could do with a 980ti lol
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cool Im just playing 1080 for now but I guess when I pay 1440 or 4k then I will over clock
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