Undervolting on a RTX 3080 Ti

[sinraw]

Hey everyone, I want to get into undervolting my 3080 Ti, I've read some guides and have a general understanding on how the procedure is done but have never done it, what is some general advice and recommendations when doing it?
The card is an EVGA XC3 3080 Ti, general system specs are a ryzen 5 5600x, 32GB @ 3200mhz cl16, gigabyte aorus x570 elite mobo and a seasonic focus gx-850w psu
Thanks in advance.

 

[droopyRO]

Install MSI Afterburner and then test your card in whatever games you play. I never had a 3080 Ti but had a 3080, i went with +150 and undervolted it little by little 0.975V then 0.950V and so on until it crashed, then backed away a bit and it was done.

 

[N/A]

First find the maximum boost speed attained by looking at monitoring software. sometimes it could be a little higher depending on how the card feels. Make sure it's above that value in MSI afterburner where you bring up the voltage frequency curve and find the point where boost clock intersects with the optimal voltage and right click to flatten it from that point till the end. Then save, add to windows start up if it feels crash free.

 

[Sak]

Follow this video if you need some help. I had a similar GPU (EVGA FTW3) and did a -150 undervolt I believe. Did not meaningfully affect performance, but reduced my temps in my SFF build.