Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) Extended Overclock Guide - Conclusion

Final Words & Conclusion

Once you apply some proper cooling (liquid) you are going to really like the overclock potential of the Nvidia Titan X as overall (on air cooling) you can already a good 10% extra performance with that GPU in the 2050~2100 MHz range. The GPU Boost 3.0 features work out well, however let's be totally honest here, they are all mostly safety features being marketed as tweaking features. If you set the GPU temp target at 90 Degrees C and can stay below that number then you'll see some extra benefit. Other then that once it hits that point it will start to down-clock in one way or another. That's a safety feature, certainly not an overclock feature. It is the same with the power limiter, you get an TDP assigned and once you pass that power signature it downclocks, not to help you with your overclock, contrary ... to keep the card from frying itself. And that literally means that all Titan X cards based on a reference design will perform roughly the same with a certain set of parameters and thresholds. Now realistically, it is however still an awful lot of fun to tweak and with MHz ranges above 2000 MHz, who's complaining really?
  

 
Initially when we went for an overclock in our reference review article we hit roughly up-to 1900~1950MHz. Great, but that was being a little careful and we did not have voltage % offsets available just yet. With just a hint of voltage tweaking you can get in the 2000 MHz range easily. Once you spend a little more time and tweak like we did, you can achieve and pass 2100 MHz. Anything over 2130 MHz was nearly impossible as our card really wasn't stable enough. But I've stated it in the reference review already, this product screams liquid cooling. While a lot, maybe too much has been restricted, we also have to acknowledge the fact that it's good to have protections in place as yes, this is a rather expensive product. It remains to be a very tweakable card compared to its default clock frequency, and that's what the enthusiast crowd demands alright.

Concluding

Overall the results don't lie, overclocking the Titan X is worth it as the card will jump up in performance quite a bit. So then my friends, we'll not to make this conclusion any longer then needed, the Nvidia Titan X is impressive at many fronts and yes, tweaking equals fun. Heck even without voltage tweaking the Titan X (Pascal) yields results by just fooling with temperature and power targets while the surrounding conditions like power limiters, heat and noise remain absolutely under control. That's free extra performance, at little extra risk or other displeasure's like noise (if you stick to air cooling). So grab yourself some tweaking software if you feel you want that additional performance, experiment a little -- we can definitely recommend that.

Please keep in mind that the AfterBurner build you have noticed in this article is still in closed beta, hence not available just yet to the generic public. I do not have a release date just yet for the new build.

• Nvidia Titan X Reference review

Recommended  Downloads

• Unigine Heaven Stress test
• MSI AfterBurner
• 3DMark (Firestrike + Time Spy)

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