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How Are My Video Card Overclocking Values ?

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Hi, the card is following a stable performance, but will it be a problem if I reduce the core clock and increase the memory clock?
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OC it as much as it's stable. Run some benchmarks and when it's unstable, lower the clocks a bit.

Here's mine for reference.

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Nope, the card is just unstable if you overclock it too much.
This is correct.

I set up OC profiles for my 2070 Super Founders Edition based on this guide:


but the system was unstable with the values used by TheFPSReview while running Unigine Heaven 4.0; it would crash during a benchmark run.

So I backed off some of the OC values and finally arrived at a profile that worked with Heaven; if I recall correctly it was +6-7% OC.

When I ran the Shadow of the Tomb Raider built-in benchmark that OC profile caused graphics artifacts. So I painstakingly created two more profiles with lower OC values. In the end, the profile that worked with SoTR was only a ~4% overclock. Not worth the time/trouble.

If a game runs at 60 fps at the factory settings, a 4% OC is 62.4 fps. Can you tell a 2.4 fps difference? I can't. Admittedly my eyes are old and tired.

Today I don't bother setting up custom GPU OC profiles. I run the manufacturer's GPU tweaker app (when available) and/or use the factory overclock. Contemporary GPUs have most of their overclocking potential built into their boost envelope.
 
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This is correct.

I set up OC profiles for my 2070 Super Founders Edition based on this guide:


but the system was unstable with the values used by TheFPSReview while running Unigine Heaven 4.0.

So I backed off some of the OC values and finally arrived at a profile that worked with Heaven.

When I ran Shadow of the Tomb Raider, that OC profile caused graphics artifacts. So I painstakingly created two more profiles with lower OC values. In the end, the profile that worked with SoTR was only a 4% overclock. Not worth the time/trouble.

If a game runs at 60 fps at the factory settings, a 4% OC is 62.4 fps. Can you tell a 2.4 fps difference? I can't. Admittedly my eyes are old and tired.
Yeaaah... and like I do, I have still a 60Hz monitor and I play with vsync on, the extra performance is only to ensure the stable 60fps frame rate.
 

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OC it as much as it's stable. Run some benchmarks and when it's unstable, lower the clocks a bit.

Here's mine for reference.

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Is your card an Gaming OC card? we have similar clocks expect my memory clock is much much higher.

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(and yes - old driver version i know but i dont play many new games and drivers for the games I play are already optimised to hell and back)
 

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Yep, the Black version. :)

I have the white version.... Or at least i did have till i put an Accelero Xtreme IV on it.

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Yeaaah... and like I do, I have still a 60Hz monitor and I play with vsync on, the extra performance is only to ensure the stable 60fps frame rate.
I don't concern myself with this.

My primary gaming display is the LG C1 OLED television (4K, 120 Hz, Nvidia G-Sync certified). I have another rarely-used gaming computer which outputs to an okay Dell gaming (2K/1440p, 165 Hz, FreeSync Premium certified) display.

I picked 60 Hz as a random example but in most cases my gaming builds run beyond that.

Ultimately OP has to decide for himself/herself whether or not the time spent in creating OC profiles results in a recognizable real-world fps gain.
 
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I have the white version.... Or at least i did have till i put an Accelero Xtreme IV on it.

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I'd love to get a block for this, even though I'll keep my CPU on air :)

I don't concern myself with this.

My primary gaming display is the LG C1 OLED television (4K, 120 Hz, Nvidia G-Sync certified). I have another rarely-used gaming computer which outputs to a 2K/1440p, 165 Hz, FreeSync Premium certified) display.

I picked 60 Hz as a random example but in most cases my gaming builds run beyond that.
Yup. Well, my next monitor will be a 4K60 one.
 
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Yup. Well, my next monitor will be a 4K60 one.
I don't really see the appeal of gaming on a 4K/60 Hz PC monitor when there are vastly superior OLED televisions running at 4K/120 Hz.

However, 4K/60 Hz is great for productivity work. I have an LG 27UL850-W for my daily driver computers (one Mac and one Windows PC). Even the 1440p monitor is a terrible experience for something like web surfing.

For gaming, variable rate refresh (G-Sync, FreeSync, etc.) is a game changer. Today's televisions have better HDR functionality that the typical computer monitor as well.
 

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I don't really see the appeal of gaming on a 4K/60 Hz PC monitor when there are vastly superior OLED televisions running at 4K/120 Hz.

However, 4K/60 Hz is great for productivity work. I have an LG 27UL850-W for my daily driver computers (one Mac and one Windows PC). Even the 1440p monitor is a terrible experience for something like web surfing.
I'm too poor to get a high refresh monitor, and actually I don't game that much - I'd love just to get a higher resolution for basic usage.
 
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I understand. I don't game that much either which is why I spend most of my computer time staring at the LG 27UL850-W. A total pleasure to use for basic usage.

My Windows PC connected to this monitor currently has an EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB card which replaced a Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 550 2GB. The latter card can't drive anything more than 4K/60 Hz but that's my productivity configuration.

My Mac mini 2018 is also very happy with this monitor. I also have a Sonnet eGPU with a Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB for the infrequent times I need more GPU horsepower than the lame Intel integrated graphics.
 
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OC it as much as it's stable. Run some benchmarks and when it's unstable, lower the clocks a bit.

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Exactly! this is why OC is adding more value to the consumers purchasing power if there a gamer.
Overall, we pay a lot of money (relatively speaking) for shiny new hardware, so wring every bit of performance out of it!
 

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Exactly! this is why OC is adding more value to the consumers purchasing power.
Overall, we pay a lot of money (relatively speaking) for shiny new hardware, so wring every bit of performance out of it!
Yeah... and usually cards have a lot of headroom especially with VRAM overclocking :)
 
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Yeah... and usually cards have a lot of headroom especially with VRAM overclocking :)
Yes, I suppose it varies from card to card but some factory OC cards can be OC even further & still be stable in AAA modern games.
 

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Yes, I suppose it varies from card to card but some factory OC cards can be OC even further & still be stable in AAA modern games.
Yeah... though I could try push this farther, I've just kept the GPU clocks that it boosts to around 2GHz when gaming.
 
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