Overclocking

In order to see meaningful gains from overclocking, we had to increase the power limit to the maximum.

Memory overclocking is fairly complicated on all RX 6950 XT cards. Just setting the maximum memory clock to right before the system or application crashes will actually result in negative performance scaling. Rather, you should find your maximum GPU clock first. Once done, slowly increase memory clock step by step while monitoring actual performance. At some point, you'll notice performance plateau and then go down—that's your maximum memory clock.

Overclocked Performance

Using these clock frequencies, we ran a quick test of Unigine Heaven to evaluate the gains from overclocking.


Actual 3D performance gained from overclocking is 5.2%.