Rtx 3070 unable to over/under clock

[specnur]

Good afternoon alI , I came across this site looking for solutions for this card. I have an asus tuf gaming rtx 3070 oc updated to ( 461.92 ). The issue is when I adjust the clock speeds , increasing or decreasing , the card does not save the custom settings, even if I lower both the core and memory clock to the minimum setting while leaving the power as default , the card reverts to its default setting within 10 minutes of the adjustment . The default setting is at 1935/6800 Mhz. I tried moving the switch on the gpu from performance to quiet mode but this does not help. I am using Asus tweak II and msi afterburner to make the adjustments, I have used afterburner for the previous gen cards to overclock with no issues over the years. Does anyone have advice on this issue? Should I try to flash the vbios?

 

[chispy]

Good afternoon alI , I came across this site looking for solutions for this card. I have an asus tuf gaming rtx 3070 oc updated to ( 461.92 ). The issue is when I adjust the clock speeds , increasing or decreasing , the card does not save the custom settings, even if I lower both the core and memory clock to the minimum setting while leaving the power as default , the card reverts to its default setting within 10 minutes of the adjustment . The default setting is at 1935/6800 Mhz. I tried moving the switch on the gpu from performance to quiet mode but this does not help. I am using Asus tweak II and msi afterburner to make the adjustments, I have used afterburner for the previous gen cards to overclock with no issues over the years. Does anyone have advice on this issue? Should I try to flash the vbios?

Hello there , uninstall Asus gpu tweak completely as it is buggy , uninstall msi ab and drivers , use ddu to clean up the drivers left over. Re-install fresh drivers and use only msi ab to oc / uc , never use 2 overclocking utilities to oc a gpu at the same time. Make sure you select max performance in the driver. There is a brand new driver release today update to that one and good luck.

Kind Regards: Chispy

 

[Deleted member 205776]

Also, a tip, don't just overclock. Undervolt as well. If you want good clocks, lock the card at a high frequency with a lower voltage.

Overclocking my 3070 with stock voltage gave me barely any increase, barely reaching 2000 MHz.

Undervolting to 950mv I'm now comfortably reaching 2085-2100 MHz.

 

[sepheronx]

Also, a tip, don't just overclock. Undervolt as well. If you want good clocks, lock the card at a high frequency with a lower voltage.

Overclocking my 3070 with stock voltage gave me barely any increase, barely reaching 2000 MHz.

Undervolting to 950mv I'm now comfortably reaching 2085-2100 MHz.

I'll have to give this a shot.

Any advice on undervolting it? A Asus dual OC model for instance.

 

[Deleted member 205776]

I'll have to give this a shot.

Any advice on undervolting it? A Asus dual OC model for instance.

What I did was launch an intensive game (this could be: Minecraft with shaders, Bedrock RTX, Metro Exodus, any RTX on game), and idle somewhere.

Then I launched Afterburner and noted my GPU's stock operation. In my case, 1965-1980 Mhz @ 1050mv.

With that in mind, I opened the Voltage/Curve editor (you will have to look this up, bit complicated to explain here). For starters, I attempted a bump to 2010 MHz while reducing voltage to 1000mv. It worked, stable.

Then I went a bit further with 2040 MHz @ 975mv. Still rock solid stable, was impressed at this point. Then I went all in and tried 2085 @ 950mv. To my surprise, it was stable.

I was happy with this, so I tried out 3DMark, Superposition, Kombustor, RTX games, anything to stress the GPU out. It maintained these clocks FAR more consistently, and even reaching 2100 MHz sometimes, all at a lower temp and lower power draw compared to stock operation. 59-61C max with undervolt, 66C stock.

I then applied a +1 GHz memory overclock to bring it from 14 Gbps to 16 Gbps and the same thing -- still rock solid stable while netting me about 20 more FPS with MC shaders or PUBG. No artifacts. Very happy with how good Ampere undervolts and my 3070 in particular (Gaming X Trio).

 

[specnur]

Hello there , uninstall Asus gpu tweak completely as it is buggy , uninstall msi ab and drivers , use ddu to clean up the drivers left over. Re-install fresh drivers and use only msi ab to oc / uc , never use 2 overclocking utilities to oc a gpu at the same time. Make sure you select max performance in the driver. There is a brand new driver release today update to that one and good luck.

Kind Regards: Chispy

Thanks for responding , I did a clean install as you suggested with afterburner and the gpu drivers . I did not use afterburner and tweak together, just decided to try a different program to check if it worked after the other didn't. I still have the same issue as mentioned above , it does not work for more than 10 minutes with any custom clocks , just switches back to the default setting as if its on a timer.

What I did was launch an intensive game (this could be: Minecraft with shaders, Bedrock RTX, Metro Exodus, any RTX on game), and idle somewhere.

Then I launched Afterburner and noted my GPU's stock operation. In my case, 1965-1980 Mhz @ 1050mv.

With that in mind, I opened the Voltage/Curve editor (you will have to look this up, bit complicated to explain here). For starters, I attempted a bump to 2010 MHz while reducing voltage to 1000mv. It worked, stable.

Then I went a bit further with 2040 MHz @ 975mv. Still rock solid stable, was impressed at this point. Then I went all in and tried 2085 @ 950mv. To my surprise, it was stable.

I was happy with this, so I tried out 3DMark, Superposition, Kombustor, RTX games, anything to stress the GPU out. It maintained these clocks FAR more consistently, and even reaching 2100 MHz sometimes, all at a lower temp and lower power draw compared to stock operation. 59-61C max with undervolt, 66C stock.

I then applied a +1 GHz memory overclock to bring it from 14 Gbps to 16 Gbps and the same thing -- still rock solid stable while netting me about 20 more FPS with MC shaders or PUBG. No artifacts. Very happy with how good Ampere undervolts and my 3070 in particular (Gaming X Trio).

Will try this tomorrow. thank you

 

[Mister300]

Welcome to the silicon lottery, no seriously if the chip maker binned the chips and were able to clock them higher you would pay a premium for that batch. My advice is to buy a faster GPU, do not get me wrong it is fun to OC but I do not expect too many gains.

 

[specnur]

Welcome to the silicon lottery, no seriously if the chip maker binned the chips and were able to clock them higher you would pay a premium for that batch. My advice is to buy a faster GPU, do not get me wrong it is fun to OC but I do not expect too many gains.

Its resetting with the clocks reduced to minimums as well.

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

Its resetting with the clocks reduced to minimums as well.

so its not hitting its turbo?

 

[oobymach]

Can you post a screenshot of gpuz and afterburner when the reset happens? Gpuz will show active clocks above the default ones. If they both match and afterburner shows your oc idk what to tell you. Afterburner has always worked for me. Are your settings correct? Make sure under compatibility that low level io driver and low level hardware access are both checked and kernel mode is selected.

 

[specnur]

It bypasses the custom clocks and returns to the default even though the custom clocks are set and shown.

 

[rezayeezadeh]

Hi,
I am getting the same laptop soon, and even now i am quite diappointed about its lower performance even comparing to rtx2070 max q !
So just wanted to know wether you were successful with oc ing the gpu? Any new developement or solution you may have found?

 

[specnur]

Hey all , my issue was resolved by reinstalling the driver after using ddu and updating to the lastest version of afterburner.

Also this is on a desktop , not laptop.

 

[rezayeezadeh]

I see, thanks

 

[BarbaricSoul]

Welcome to the silicon lottery, no seriously if the chip maker binned the chips and were able to clock them higher you would pay a premium for that batch. My advice is to buy a faster GPU, do not get me wrong it is fun to OC but I do not expect too many gains.

Really, so my 6700XT being OC'ed so it hits +2.8 ghz on the core isn't given me extra performance? And the 600 MHz OC I had on the RTX 2070 so it ran at 2GHz was just my imagination?