Overclocking The Graphics Card with OC Scanner

Overclocking The Graphics Card with OC Scanner

NVIDIA has introduced a new way of overclocking and tweaking starting with (and only for) the RTX. Basically, you can now automatically overclock the GPU. By pressing the OC scanner button you can have a software algorithm test and check intervals and voltage frequency curves, the scanner will try to determine a stable overclock, this is presented in a curve and that curve can be applied as your tweak.

With (your updated) Afterburner, hit Control+F and you will see the OC Scanner button. Hitting the scan button can take 10 to 20 minutes of testing. It will define a new stable overclocking curve, once finished in Afterburner hit apply and you are good to go. 

You can also hit Test after the scan to verify the results and get a confidence level of the tweak, 90% here.

So admittedly, I've never been a fan of automated overclocking processes often ending in instability and crashes. That has changed, the new scanner offers a very stable and a very gentle way of GPU overclocking. I do say GPU overclocking as the scanner does not touch things like your VRAM. I have run many tests in the pre-beta phase when we have been developing and getting afterburner ready for this. It will be interesting to read what you guys think of the new technology, which will find its way into the GeForce 1000 series as well. 

For this tweak, we applied a memory tweak, power limiter tweak, and voltage tweak prior to the process to see how close we get towards manual tweaking. Below the results, as you can see it's all in a rather small margin.