Overclocking The RX580

Overclocking The RX580

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 video card increase its calculation clock cycles per second.
 

Original	This sample	Overclocked
Boost Clock: 1340 MHz	Boost Clock: 1380 MHz	Max Boost Clock: 1550 MHz
Memory Clock: 8000 MHz	Memory Clock: 8000 MHz	Memory Clock: 9000 MHz

You can use any tweaking utility of your preference of course. We use AfterBurner (download) based on personal preference, all other brands like ASUS, Gigabyte and thus ASRock all have tweaking software available as well, it's just that advanced overlay and tweak functionality that AB offers that have my personal preference. To each his own, and with that said here is our applied and stable tweak:

• Core: 1550 MHz
• Mem: 2250 (x4) = 9000 MHz
• Power +50%
• Voltage +100
• Fan (50% - it was a hot day here during testing)

 
In the above chart you can see a relative performance difference in between a reference RX 580 card, then the AIB RX 580 card and then added the applied tweak and this our overclocked results plotted in percentage. You'll notice that the MSI card was performing 1% overall faster than reference.

A reference 580 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. Once we teak it manually it is roughly 11% faster compared to the reference RX 580 card. This was with the TDP Power limiter tweak maxed out. Below all overclock results, measured at WQHD.