Overclocking
Now speaking of clock speeds, this card comes in with a game clock or core clock of 2520MHz, a boost clock of 3060MHz and a memory speed of 2518MHz, so a 5% boost over a reference spec 9070 XT on the game clock, and a lower 3% extra on the boost, which if this was an NVIDIA card, I’d probably argue that it’s not good enough, but AMD works a bit different with clock speeds and can have a more meaningful impact compared to what we see comparatively speaking with NVIDIA. Instead of relying on aggressive GPU Boost behavior like NVIDIA, which dynamically adjusts clock speeds well beyond the advertised spec depending on power and thermal headroom, AMD’s boost clocks are more closely tied to what you’ll actually see in real-world scenarios. This means that while a 3% increase over reference might seem small on paper, it’s more likely to translate into an actual uplift in sustained performance rather than being absorbed by pre-existing boost headroom. So in this case, while the overclock isn’t huge, it should still offer a tangible improvement over a stock 9070 XT.
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