Does anyone here overclock their video cards? Is it really worth it?

[GerKNG]

Dunno what my 6700 XT OC compares to?

somehwere in the ballpark of a 6750XT / 4060 Ti / 2080 Ti

 

[Keullo-e]

somehwere in the ballpark of a 6750XT / 4060 Ti / 2080 Ti

IIRC this should be a little faster than a stock 2080 Ti?

 

[GerKNG]

IIRC this should be a little faster than a stock 2080 Ti?

depends on the game and resolution.
the 2080 Ti is faster than the 6750XT in 4K. but at 1080p and 1440p the your card should at least be as fast.

 

[Keullo-e]

depends on the game and resolution.
the 2080 Ti is faster than the 6750XT in 4K. but at 1080p and 1440p the your card should at least be as fast.

Damn. I play at 4K.

 

[Launcestonian]

Absolutely, I want to extract every bit of stable OC performance from my investment in the GPU. Especially playing my fav current AAA game with full DX12 implementation. I have a factory OC card but have OC it further with less power draw, ticks both boxes for me... lucky in the silicon lottery!
Every frame per second is increase in benefit. Performance of my RX 6800 card is approx in the RX 6900 area now.

 

[Assimilator]

No and no. Since boost algorithms became a thing meaning that GPUs and CPUs are able to overclock themselves, I simply haven't felt the need to bother.

 

[AVATARAT]

I have a asus tuf oc 4080 super card. I was going to flash the bios on this card with a bios from another card to get more out of it.

But then multiple people on the internet said you are going to push power through vrms that were not meant to handle it from a card whose bios and hardware vrms were meant to handle it.

And they told me in the end you would get like 3 fps more. Is that worth it to you. And the premature hardware failure you may get?

I wanted to do it then thought freak that. 3fps is completely not worth it.

Do you guys overclock your video card? How much gain do you get on your cards? FPS wise?

Thanks.

7900 XT, I do a profile for each game/bench/soft in 95% of situations.
Everything must be maxed , if the game is old and supports virtual resolutions, then I use higher ones it's not always work but, nothing worth trying

 

[#22]

With however changing performance (overclocking or opposite kinds EDIT: or even paying premium for faster card) it's worth to first know exactly how much of a difference you simply find noticeable. Running some buttery smooth game and playing with framerate limiter would do the job. I find 15% as discussable border of being noticeable when doing so what puts real life gameplay difference even higher. It's uncommon for nowadays components to overclock to such levels - it's usually 5-10% gains, so ones totally negligible. Negligible effect which costs noise, room heating and theoretically longevity.

 

[AVATARAT]

10% sometimes jump from one tier card to the next...

 

[KLMR]

As how GPU clocks have worked for several generations: as long as you keep them cool the GPU itself will "overclock". Probably the first threshold you'll find will be max power. Some let raise that value, some not. Next will be voltage.
For memory clock, thats another story, but once more, temperature will be the key factor for stability (not for running 3dmark a couple of times).
For expensive GPUs the best OC is watercooling them. For the fraction of the cost of the block you probably get the same % in performance boost and will run 20-30 degrees cooler.

I mean, playing with some sliders looks cool, but the GPU will underclock more and more as soon as it gets hoter in heavy loads. In light loads it won't reach the desired "oc clock" at all.

 

[Outback Bronze]

Nah, not anymore. The better you cool them the more they boost clock anyways.

I'm more into power limiting them these days for better efficiency.

 

[Tatty_Two]

All I do these days is increase my power limit to the max my card allows which in my case is 8% which gives me a couple of hundred mhz over stock boost clocks.

 

[Dirt Chip]

I only downclock and downvoltage and powerlimit both gou and cpu.
OC' is a y2000 thing.

 

[QuietBob]

With modern GPUs, it's rare to see more than 10% gains when oc'd. Typically, the difference will be in the single % points without resorting to hardware/firmware mods. Also, the card's increased power consumption and cooling requirements are usually disproportionate to the eventual benefits.

Outside of benchmarks, oc'ing the GPU has limited advantages. If it can bring your percentile lows up from 50 to 55 fps, I'd say it's worth it. Overclocking the card just to see your maximum frame rate go up from 180 to 189 fps is pointless.

 

[Waldorf]

@jarablue
oc/tweak yes.
flashing gpu bios? just no.
ignoring there is a difference if i gain 10% in overall fps, or in 0.01%.

the problem is that most chip makers decided to "oc" stuff themselves,
the major reason we now have base and "boost" clocks.

but if you have a decent card (cooling/power), you can easily do some tweaks
to gain some perf.
usually sw like Afterburner allows you to raise the max temp/power limit for your card,
good enough to be noticable, especially once a card starts to get "older" and you dont care to upgrade (yet).

i would at least increase the max temp allowed,a s it would give a little more room when it gets warm,
as boost clocks drop the warmer the card gets.

 

[freeagent]

I did it because I liked to see 3GHz rather than 2850MHz. But this interested me a bit, because I thought for sure it would help, and maybe it does in some scenarios. I started running F@H on my GPU last night, and I am seeing just about the same production at stock clocks as I was seeing with a maxed out mem and GPU OC. It was only 200MHz or so on the GPU and over mems at +1466. Interesting, yet disappointing.

 

[Waldorf]

@freeagent
its on air? Nv boost clocks drop with temp, so not surprised if there is no diff,
as temps woullower it anyway.

 

[Beginner Macro Device]

IIRC this should be a little faster than a stock 2080 Ti?

Nah, 6700 XT outright blows 2080 Ti no matter how heavily you OC it. My 6700 XT (2750/2150 MHz) trades blows with 3060 Ti and 2080 Super in most scenarios but when it comes down to ray tracing it starts trailing so far it's not even fun.

At 4K specifically, 6700 XT should be compared to non-Super RTX 2080. Maaaaaybe a wee overclocked 2080. 2080 Ti is almost a whole tier better.

 

[Keullo-e]

Nah, 6700 XT outright blows 2080 Ti no matter how heavily you OC it. My 6700 XT (2750/2150 MHz) trades blows with 3060 Ti and 2080 Super in most scenarios but when it comes down to ray tracing it starts trailing so far it's not even fun.

At 4K specifically, 6700 XT should be compared to non-Super RTX 2080. Maaaaaybe a wee overclocked 2080. 2080 Ti is almost a whole tier better.

Isn't 6700 XT faster than 3070?

 

[Shrek]

I prefer not to overclock; why would I want to risk instability and shortened life?

 

[Sithaer]

Isn't 6700 XT faster than 3070?

Nope, it usually trades blows with a 3060 Ti stock vs stock depending on the game and res in raster at least. 'I've also almost got a 6700 XT so I've watched a lot of benches between the 2 cards..'
In some Vram heavy/not too well optimzed games the 6700 XT is faster tho.

 

[Guwapo77]

Not really, I hate having to find that sweet spot for stability and performance. Nothing worst than having a crash in the middle of a raid boss you've seen 20+ hours trying to beat. So now I just buy the flagship card and push it in the slot.

 

[Noci]

There is noob OC (like I do with Adrenalin) and hardcore OC for the peeps who actually know what they are doing (most of the time I suppose ).

I just do it for the fun of it to see what is possible and had set myself the challenge to get a 'Legendary' score in 3DMark tests and some nice scores with some other of the well known benchmark programs. Other than that it has no added value in my opinion as the actual gain in performance is only marginal and you seriously increase the stress on the delicate electrical components of your graphic card which may have a negative impact on it's lifespan.

Want higher FPS in a game, buy a better card if you can, if not just remember there are peeps with lesser cards. Don't fall for the ratrace of 'mine is faster than yours' .

But that's my opinion, feel free to disagree


Back in the days (2012) I could run one of my Radeon HD 6950's with a BIOS of of a HD 6970 unlocking extra shaders that was fun, just the 1 Gb VRAM couldn't deal with higher speeds.

 

[neatfeatguy]

I haven't seen a GPU since the Maxwell days that really gave much of an improvement over what they provided out of the box. My 980Ti I could crank up the memory speed by almost 500 while pushing the core up 250. I surpassed GTX 1070 performance with my 980Ti.

I can't get anywhere close to that kind of OC with my 3080Ti. In all honesty, I never bothered OC'ing my 980Ti until after owning it for a few years. Right now I turn down the power limit on my current 3080Ti (power limit set to 75% gives me about 5-10% decrease from stock settings, depending on the game), it plays games at an acceptable level for me with reduced power and slightly reduced performance.

At most, you might garner 5%. If those couple extra frames are worth it for you, by all means go for the OC.

 

[freeagent]

@freeagent
its on air? Nv boost clocks drop with temp, so not surprised if there is no diff,
as temps woullower it anyway.

It runs pretty cool with my setup, generally with that load it sits at 2950-3000, not surprised about that speed, but the mem speed opened my eyes a bit. I will show you when I get home