GeForce GTX 1050 3GB review - Overclocking GeForce GTX 1050 3GB

It's OK to OC

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 clock cycles per second.

Original	This sample	Overclocked
Core Clock: 1392 MHz	Core Clock: 1433 MHz	Core Clock: 1490 MHz
Boost Clock: 1518 MHz	Boost Clock: 1582 MHz	Max Boost Clock: ~1975 MHz
Memory Clock: 7.0 GHz	Memory Clock: 7.0 GHz	Memory Clock: 7.5 GHz

If anything, tweaking and overclocking has become more complicated starting with Pascal. You'll see that most cards out there all will tweak to roughly the same levels due to all kinds of hardware protection kicking in. Given the early stage sample, we had no active voltage control. We applied the following settings:

• Core Voltage : -
• Power Limit: 100 %
• Temp. limit: 90C
• Core Clock : + 150 
• Memory Clock: +265MHz
• Fan speed 65% (= silent)