FarCry

I made my own record on the Training level of Far Cry:

It’s the same in Far Cry as in Doom 3: GPU overclocking is more rewarding than memory overclocking in each test mode. This might be different if I had achieved the same frequency growth with the memory as with the GPU, but 10% was the maximum I could get from the memory chips on that graphics card.

Diagrams below represent performance of NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT graphics card with overclocking of core, memory as well as core in addition to memory.

So, although the GeForce 6600 GT seems to be “misbalanced” in the characteristics (i.e. its performance is oftener limited by the memory bandwidth rather than by the GPU), I enjoyed more gains from GPU overclocking than from the memory speedup. The reason is simple: I managed to increase the GPU clock rate by 28%, while the memory clock rate grew by 10% only.