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MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z 11 GB Review

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Overclocking

GPU-Z Screenshot for Overclocked Graphics Card


Manual overclocking has once more become more complicated with this generation. Since the cards are always running in the power limiter, you can no longer just dial-in stable clocks for the highest boost state to find the maximum overclock. The biggest issue is that you can't just reach that state reliably, so your testing is limited to whatever frequency your test load is running at.

With manual overclocking, maximum overclock of our sample is 2090 MHz on the memory (19% overclock) and +115 MHz to the GPU's base clock, which increases maximum Boost from 1995 MHz to 2100 MHz (5% overclock).

Maximum Overclock Comparison
Max. GPU ClockMax. Memory Clock
ASUS RTX 2080 Ti STRIX2115 MHz2065 MHz
EVGA RTX 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra2115 MHz2010 MHz
EVGA RTX 2080 Ti XC Ultra2070 MHz1960 MHz
MSI RTX 2080 Ti Duke2115 MHz2005 MHz
MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio2085 MHz2005 MHz
MSI RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z2100 MHz2090 MHz
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition2110 MHz1945 MHz
Zotac RTX 2080 Ti AMP2145 MHz2000 MHz
Testing notes & interpretation
  • Overclocking results listed in this section are achieved with the default fan, power, and voltage settings as defined in the VGA BIOS. We choose this approach as it is the most realistic scenario for most users.
  • Each GPU (including each GPU of the same make and model) will overclock slightly differently based on random production variances.
  • The data in this table shows comparable overclocks, using identical conditions, from previous TechPowerUp Reviews.

Overclocked Performance

Using these clock frequencies, we ran a quick test of Unigine Heaven to evaluate the gains from overclocking.

Overclocked Performance Unigine Heaven

Actual 3D performance gained from overclocking is 9.8%.
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