Overclocking
Though the card does come pre-factory overclocked, we were able to push things quite a lot further, with an extra 320MHz on the core, along with the memory seeing the max increase and the power limit allowing an additional 10%. What this means for the clock speeds themselves is that we saw an increase in clock speed from 2407MHz now up to 2727MHz, while our boost clock went up from 2692MHz all the way up to 3012MHz.
To test power consumption and temperatures, as well as to test the stability of our overclock, we ran F1 24 on an hour-long loop to simulate a real-world gaming scenario. It’s here where our stock results end up seeing temperatures averaging around the mid-60s for both the core and memory temperatures, and with the temperatures being so relatively low, the fan doesn’t actually need to spin up all that much, which is why we end up with an average fan speed of 1260RPM and in terms of clock speeds, we see the GPU clock sitting around 2275MHz for the most part, which also results in the card holding an average total board power of 160 Watts.
We then ran the same test with our overclock applied, and from those improvements, we see the temperatures around 67 degrees on average for both the core and memory temperatures, only sitting slightly higher than our stock results on average. With the temperatures only being slightly higher than we saw at stock, it’s no surprise that the fan speed also only saw a slight increase, with an average around 1300RPM. When we take a look at the clock speeds we see that, unsurprisingly, there is a pretty decent jump in performance here with an average clock speed of 3050MHz, and with this increase in clock speed and the increase we saw in the power limit, we do see a higher power draw with an average of 170 watts, which is actually a smaller increase than I would have expected.
