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 clock cycles per second.
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| Reference | This sample | Overclocked |
| Core Clock: 1481 MHz | Core Clock: 1544 MHz | Core Clock: 1609 MHz |
| Boost Clock: 1582 MHz | Boost Clock: 1658 MHz | Max Boost Clock: 2037~2050 MHz |
| Memory Clock: 11008 MHz | Memory Clock: 11008 MHz | Memory Clock: 12508 MHz |
Use any tweaking utility of your preference of course. We use AfterBurner based on personal preference, Gigabyte has nice tweaking software available as well, it's just that advanced overlay and tweak functionality that AB offers that has my personal preference. Our applied tweak:
- Core Voltage : +100%
- Power Limit : 116%
- Temp. limit : 90C
- Core Clock : + 65
- Memory Clock : +750 MHz (=12528 MHz effective data-rate)
- FAN RPM: default
Remember, MSI applied a nice tweak for you already by tweaking it so closer to its maximum capability. And that standard tweak is covered by your warranty. More Voltage, 100% offset applied on the core clock tweak. Once overclocked keep this in mind; due to the dynamic nature of the boost clock, your frequency is not fixed. Limiters and monitors, temperature, load, power and voltages will continuously alter a maximum clock state.
Above, a new chart. It is the relative performance difference in between a reference card, the AIB card with its respective applied tweak and our overclocked results plotted as a percentage. The reference card is 100%. To the far right where you can see Aver Difference %, this is the result of the four games tested and averaged out. So the card runs, give or take, 6% faster compared to reference. And once we tweak it manually it is roughly 12% faster compared to the reference card and thus 6% faster compared to the default clocks. This was with the TDP Power Limiter tweak maxed out. Below, all overclock results, measured at Ultra HD.
