Overclocking The Graphics Card
Overclocking The Graphics Card
Traditional overclocking - As most of you know, with most video cards you can apply a simple series of tricks to boost the overall performance a little. Typically you can tweak on core clock frequencies and voltages. By increasing the frequency of the videocard's memory and GPU, we can make the videocard increase its calculation clock cycles per second.
You can use any tweaking utility of your preference of course. You can use the internal driver Wattman. Our applied tweak:
- Core: 1700 MHz
- Mem: 945 MHz data-rate
- Power: +50%
- Voltage GPU: default
- Volatge mem: default
- Fan: Default
Performance modes
If we fire off the Ghost Recon: Wildlands benchmark at the two BIOS modes we can see that the trade-off for slightly better noise levels is a substantial loss in performance. At WHQL that is roughly 5%.
Above: AMD in it's latest drivers is making things rather messy if you ask me as it now includes power save, balanced (the default) and a Turbo mode (last one adds 15% extra on the power limiter) as well. Above some results based on standard BIOS mode versus the presets. The differences here remain marginal in the 1~3 FPS offsets. We'd advice to leave it at the default setting.