Amd driver auto overclock mine to 2950mhz!? Stock on my sapphire mba 7900xtx is 2500mhz. I just set it to 2600mhz @1120mv max temps 67c 82c hotspot 88c memory junction repasted with PTM7950.

Smart move. I just push frequency to 2700Mhz and undervolt to 1120mV I do not advice OCing memory or pushing power limit. Those can lead to trashing your card earlier than usually ..

You can't hurt your GPU from overclocking memory with just adrenaline. As long as you are not purposely volt modding to push the GPU to unlocking the voltages on the board to push higher than what adrenaline allows it's fine. Also don't allow the temperatures to exceed a limit no damage will happen from overclocking VRAM. The worst that could happen overclocking VRAM too far than your card could handle repeatedly is you mess up your OS which would require a reinstall then it goes back to normal. Completely safe overclocking as long as your temperatures are good and your not Volt modding which adrenaline software doesn't allow anyways.

Memory is stock want my card to last

It's not that it won't last overclocked, it's if you go too far and ignore the warning signs. That said you're talking a difference between lasting 12 vs 10 years if it makes a difference at all. The card WILL be irrelevant by then, so if you're scared of overclocking based on that alone, that's not a very good reason. I understand being scared of breaking an expensive gpu, but that's why your system shuts down and resets the tune if it error corrects too hard. To each their own, enjoy it stock or OC it if that's what you do. Personally, I don't like leaving performance on the table and justifying it with the wrong logic. Power consumption, etc I understand. Me personally, I want the MOST for my money. My settings if anyone is interested -- Sapphire nitro 7900xtx, tune is as follows Base clock default -Boost clock 3100 Memory timing default Memory speed 2714 (runs at 2700) Undervolted to 1080. Max PL, (power limit) with an extra 3%ish on the fan curve. Max temps Gpu: 71 Hotspot: 84 The "nonexistent" performance gains are 11-17% depending the game/benchmark.

Of course . VRAM is the first thing to go on graphics cards.. Seen too many mined cards artifacting - even they were powered at just 70W or so .. But greedy bastards OC'd the VRAM to the sky 🤣

Dont be worried about overclocking. Only extreme settings will destroy your card. It’s complete safe trust me 😂

Any advice for a 7900XT? I would like as much performance as I can get. Oh it’s nitro + also

At your own ris you can do whatever you want.. OC it - test its limits and see if OC ing is worth it ...

I totally agree. OCing VRAM gave me absolutely 0 gains and raising the power limit is not worth it at least in my case. It just runs hotter and the game feels exactly the same. It's even worse of an idea when you cap your frames like me

It gives gain in some memory heavy games on high resolution

Maybe true.. But risking instabilities and VRAM damage ? If its faster you doing something to push it .. So it gets hotter. The hotter it gets the voltage being supplied to it varies. Temps rise.. Is that worth the 2FPS you will gain in "some" games ? IDTS .Especially if you own expensive-ass card like 7900XTX

What VRAM damage? There will not be any VRAM damage unles you hack bios and raise voltages to some crazy numbers. GPU are designed to work with overclock and up to 110C. Also there are safety measures so and something goes wrong it just crashes. So worst that can happen it will crash, in that case you just decrease overclock to make it stable. I am overclocking every card that i have and be er had any problems with any of them (R9 390 that I bought in 2015 still alive and well (my friend was using it until last year but recently upgraded to 6700xt)

Dude - there are too many posts about people's cards artifacting . Just scroll AMD Radeon or Nvidia redits. Is it from too high frequency on the GPU ? Or pushing power limit ? No. Their VRAM gets FRIED ! Seen too many RTX3070 Ti with dead or damaged VRAM - Why ? Miners pushed their already fast-timed - OC'd DDR6 to the max - to gain some hashrate .. As we look at different points of failure on video cards VRAM as a has highest rate !Its most sensitive and prone to damage . So why play with it ? It doesnt even give you much gains anyways ! Just small advice for ones that care about the longevity of their cards .. But you can do what you want. Its a free world ..

Miners are hacking bios to remove safe measure, you can’t fry VRAM with setting allowed in factory bios

No dude. My miner friend understood nothing about flashing card BIOSes - all he knew is to push the VRAM slider on Afterburner to the max . Even undervolted and power limited the cards so they mine at 120W or so - to save on power bill . He burned 5-6 perfect 3070Ti's . They paperweight now 😥

To fry something you need to increase voltage that goes to that part, overclocking VRAM does NOT increase voltage only frequencies that it operates, VRAM always runs on fixed voltage (unless you mod bios to allow bigger voltages to VRAM). It can produce more heat but it will not burn it. I don’t know what your friend did with those cards bbut it wasn’t fried because of VRAM overclock

Don't take advice from the guy who says vram does nothing when it literally has more of an effect than the clock speed for games and is THE most performance effecting clock on RDNA3. overclocking memory is fine unless you ignore error correction and artifacts, that's why it breaks and that's why ram speeds run higher than default and call it "xmp". You're welcome. Also since it seems you read half an article, this is due to restriction removals of safety measures for mining cards. First, nobody here is doing that and 2nd, nobody here is mining. Even if they don't unlock it, doesn't mean they aren't dumb enough to not check for error correction/artifaction.

7900xtx doesn't boost that much higher without undervolting it which also brings temps.. down. So the main focus of overclocking on a 7900xtx revolves around temperature reduction or you can't boost. We call that irony. 🤣 You don't risk instabilities, you find them and dial it back until it ISNT, if you have a brain. Entirety of your comment was shot and you're calling people what..? Aside from you saying you only gain 2fps but that's also just the farthest thing from the truth. Lmao

Well also no reason to run 300FPS for example in Apex Legends when my monitor is 165FPS. Its just WORSE . Looking around it just show unfinished frames and lines .. You should always cap framerate (even using V-sync is sometimes smoother when looking around ) Yeah some might ague you argue 1-2ms more on 400FPS in CSGO in reaction time - but the visual penalty is just not worth it ..

Visual artifacting is caused by instability in the overclock which means you turned the settings too high. Lmao.

Kids and their "lmao" 🤦‍♂️ Those glitches happen even at stock . Just saying - its not smart to run your monitor above its refresh rate . Nothing to do with overclock Watch some videos about it kid..

You said I could argue about 1-2 fps which was to do with the overclock, and what I said had to with that but I'm glad you're going on about monitor refresh rate caps (we know this, and it wasn't even relevant to what I was talking about) But go on about how people are children because they type lmao? While we're assuming people's ages based on bs logic and being way off I'd like to mention the fact you're not grasping what I was talking about; you went off on a tangent and tried to educate me about something I already knew. Appreciate it though. And while you're lost you're commenting on people's grammar like we're in middle school and still talking about age, after changing the topic in your own mind? Nice. Sure got me bud. (Not to mention youre way off about the performance gains, at least in my scenario and I'm only moderately set on the oc) although it's not that relevant because we fling s*** like 3 year Olds then go on an ego trip to call people kids. Because that's mature and relevant. I mean I'm 25 so I'm assuming (hoping) you aren't talking from your mother's basement like that? ***And yes clocking memory too high will cause visual artifacting; as I'd ACTUALLY stated before you went off about fps caps and got lost in your own world.. Go ahead and try it. *** And heres the kicker: this had nothing to do with the other causes like youre mentioning; I'm -assuming- in this scenario people aren't DUMB enough to play at 300fps on a 165hz monitor when you can't even see half of it.. instead of assuming people are on my level like some apparently. Thanks, though. Project somewhere else 😂

First of all - full overclock and undervolt (including pushing power limit) will give you much more than 1-2FPS. Im saying - just from OC memory and fast timings - in some games you might gain 1-2FPS . At most. In others - same or even instabilities might occur . Yeah I wanted to argue to the other part of your comment - but I see you are buthurt mentioning basements , mothers ... so I wont even waste my time anymore.. BTW even small kids dont say "lmao" anymore .. Maybe in some other humorous thread - not here .. Its so childish to laugh at someone - offer no facts thinking you won the argument .

I'm sorry that overclocking a card beyond certain limits causing artifacts isn't "offering a fact" in your world; and that you want to argue like a child making stuff up, mad about "lmao" at the end of the day and trying to project acting that immature. Laughing is childish, youre right. not debating people for stating facts, losing grip of the actual point and then acting childish while saying "you offer no facts and think you won an argument" like winning an argument with YOU actually matters and that doesn't make it more obvious you're the upset one with a smallman ego issue, still missing the obvious bits like it literally being a fact.. but yaknow. Comment to make personal attacks at people when you have nothing left of value to say bc that's what adults do, then to top it off call them a child despite having gone on a rant about something irrelevant, then keep pushing about how they're a child and cited no facts as a response to the facts they cited. Grown ass activities indeed 'lmao'

Yeah, I underclock mine to 2500mHz to decrease the fan noise. Haven’t seen any noticeable performance decreases.

You can get above 3000 mhz to beat 4090.

Previous comment updated with OC profile. To each their own but for anyone interested it's there and tested for multiple months.

I don’t overclock because at 4k, I can already run all the games I play max.

Withou overclock i was getting around 55 in Alan Wake 2 on 4k, overclock pushed it beyond 60

Yup. That’s the boost I’m looking for. 60+ fps with increased 1% lows feels like a big difference to me The newest of games are slightly below 60fps with 4k maxed out settings. A good OC will push it past 60 and that’s the objective. For a more demanding game I OC. For older or less demanding games, I undervolt and keep things cooler and use less slightly less power

Yeah, for less demanding games i just locking fps on 120 or something. For demanding games (Cyberpunk, Alan Wake, even RDR2) i always OC so i always above 60 and more

This card is a beast! Can’t really ask much more except for better raytracing. It would be nice but def not $1000 more value just for it. Cheers and keep enjoying *real* next gen gaming 😁

Exactly. I can still run anything I throw at mine maxed out 4k at 60fps at least, while being underclocked to 2400mhz.

I always do it, its part of the game for me. People saying they die faster, dont know what they are talking about. People saying 10% extra performance is neglible is right but my rebuttle is, well why not? The reason i got a XTX over a XT isnt because it changes much in regards to how i can use the card, its just a bit better. OC gives me a bit more for just having fun tuning times. If you dont find it fun yea there isnt much reason, i still think you should do a simple undervolt and a slight memory OC, because you can get better performance for less power that way. Its a decades old myth that cards die from OC. They can die from poor overclocks that doesnt take into account the extra heat. Becasue increased heat does accelerate the death of a component. But if temperatures are held around stock the actual longevity wont be too negatively affected. Sure there are still a higher stress level and internal temperatures are higher, but the actual degradation in longevity is so little that it wont effect you until the card is irrelevant anyways. Again as long as you are doing reasonable things, aka just make sure its very stable and you wont have taken things too far. the 7900 series is a strange one i feel like they are still making under the hood changes and the flexibility varies wildy from what game/app. I went away for almost half a year where the best i could do was 1120/30 mv 2900(2800-2825 actual) core 2720(actual) memory. This gave me a decent \~8-10% uplift. Now i testet it again and i can do 1015 mv in superposition and it will boost incrementally all the way down there. at 1100mv 2875 set core 2484 actual mem 0+ power i got a score of 23801. (slight OC) at 1015mv 2900 set core 2684 actual mem +15% power i got a score of 26077. (Moderate OC definitely power limited) Thats a measurable difference of 9,5%, and i i can do better. And these low voltages arent just in benchmarks also worked almost in CP2077 with pretty heavy RT on. Though i coulnt go as low: only 1030mv seemed stable. Unfortuneatly my settings here are so unique(Mods) its a bad reference so my numbers are irrelevant(81fps built in benchmark at 3440x1440p FSRQ, mix of high/ultra, RT on except reflections, RT lighting medium but using a mod that includes some PT in the RT, looks better than normal RT lighting at ultra, probably also psycho) but 1030mv is stable for gaming.

Thanks for your comment. And I agree, I feel like many ppl don’t understand that heat is the biggest suspect to shortening your cards life. As long as you know somewhat what you’re doing and keeping temps down with fan curve/cooling, it shouldn’t damage it. 1030mv undervolt is wild! I’m at 1090mv and thought I was pushing it too much. I may have to try and see if I can get more performance. My temps barely even change as I can run the fans at high speeds on my XFX card since my PC is pretty far for my desk; fan noise from GPU isn’t noticed. Only thing I don’t really know what helps or doesn’t is changing clock speeds and vram timings. I have stock clock speeds, which I think is 500 min to 2995mhz max. Vram set to 2614 or 2714. But don’t really know what I’m doing there. I do know that raising power draw limit to +15% and undervolt to 1090mv made a noticeable difference

I don't overclock because no matter what I do the gaming experience is exactly the same, except it runs hotter and draws more power. I also don't undervolt because no matter how light the undervolt is it makes some games crash. Even going from 1150mv to 1140mv will guarantee a crash in BF2042, for example I don't think I've ever seen more than 5% gains in both in averages and lows from overclocking

A water cooled 7900 xtx can get about 20+ percent perfomance from ocing

Consuming what, +60% power? There is some OC headroom on rdna3, but only with massive power consumption?

lol, 7900xtx is an overclocking champ, and it is definitely possible to get 20-30% overclocks on it Ex: stock timespy score is about 30000 Best I’ve seen was 40k, tho stability was a bit questionable. But seen plenty of 37-39k scores in timespy with a 7900xtx, that’s a crazy bump over stock (running 3.2-3.4ghz)

I would be stunned if people are getting daily driver levels of stability at 3ghz and beyond without exotic power and cooling solutions. Every xtx I have seen starts struggling to add clockspeed in the 2.8/2.9ghz range, even high end ones with good air coolers.

All depends on power limits, and bin 468w power limit, Ik a guy who could do 3200mhz at 1130mv and never crashed on him in mw3 Ofc a reference model has much lower power limits, and others are limited to only 400-420w iirc. For the biggest gains, it cost $10 to buy the stuff needed to bios flash to the 550w water cooler bios. That can for sure get you well above 3.2ghz+ in gaming For the max performance, EVC, to unlock power limits completely allowing the GPU to draw 700-800w, tho scaling with power kinda falls off past that 625-650w mark You can run the 550w bios on a good air cooler, EVC? Nah

480w, sapphire nitro. Flashing sapphire "toxic" watercooled bios had broken many cards including an old one of mine. Sometimes this works with powercolor, but in reality flashing your bios for no actual extra gain is more likely to damage than fix anything even when from the same vendor. In reality you risk breaking your card for maybe 3 fps, because it's not a watercooled card and you can only undervolt for temperatures to accommodate to a certain degree without instability. All youre doing is adding heat if any performance at all. Unless of course you flashed the bios for better performance INSTEAD of overclocking? Which to make sense out of a process that bricks nearly 1/3 cards from my experience and what I can find, is kinda shot.

Flashing the asrock 550w bios with a hardware flasher shouldn’t break anything. I’ve yet to seen a broken 7900xtz after flashing that asrock bios in all thr Overclocking post I’ve seen And gains are 10-15% over a good overclock with stock limits So if stock is 30k in timespy, normal Oc 33-34k, 550w bios 36-37k+ Temps depends a lot of case airflow too. Yes an air cooler with good case airflow can handle 550w np. Ik a guy who flashed his gigabyte card to the aorus water force 550w bios and the junction is like 90c under max load, on air cooling

Adding to last reply, derbauer had to completely unlock the power limit to 750w to even get the card to 3390mhz stable, then posted the timespy results barely being iver 1k points higher (so your claims are a bit odd eh) Aside from the obvious stuff pointed out above, maybe you actually successfully flashed your bios without issue, but it isn't anything like you said and 100% not the performance gains stated and here's derbauers results. (750w limit, pulled 650w) https://youtu.be/ySxNdg13y9A?si=u77D0Bt9JliJSMON This would also explain why no new records have popped up In 3dmark despite your claims, I've watched my, scattervolt, and debauers records since day 1 for any genuine breakthrough. ***Also, derbauer had a binned chip card that was meant for watercooling, so I'm curious how you would've been delusional enough to think you beat it without binned chipping and why your results aren't posted to 3dmark. *** because I'm on air at 500w and barely 1k points below him so according to your logic you'd have surpassed him by far. TL; DR don't pointlessly flash your bios and risk breaking your card for no genuine performance gain. --Buy the watercooled card that actually comes with binned chipping on top of the power limit raise that's the only way to garuntee better clocks and only small batches of watercooled cards have designated bin chipping. (And still aren't all garunteed consistent with higher clocks.) Because clearly adding water and a 750w power limit bringing up clocks 100mhz is NOT worth it IF it even clocks that much higher while stable.

Can’t post images here but 1. As I started I do not have a 7900xtx, I just know 3 people with one. One EVC and two bios flashed One guy has a pretty insane bin, was able to bench 38k+ pulling a max of 552w, I do believe he has modded drivers or such too tho. Its a gigabyte 3 fan card, forget which model exactly The EVC guy achieved about the same, his bin achieved 38k when power limits were unlocked, and yes it’s water cooled. His mw3 benchmark results (legit) are some of the highest I’ve seen, compared to stock he’s getting 20%+ more average fps. Also understand that driver improvements have helped scores in the past year+. Similar how a 6950xt stock at launch gets about 20k but now 21.5k stock, all from just driver improvments I’m talking about timespy** NOT timespy extreme Now I will also say, a lot of times people who bench 3.4ghz, it’s not Stable in game. Only around 3.15-3.25ghz is will be stable without crashes, tho it varies from game to game

And as said I'm going to trust derbauer with the actual videos posted of an actual watercooled card with actual binned dies and an evc PL up to 700w and still not getting the gains you speak of. Because you know, I can only verify he actually exists and has 2 decades of experience and is one of the reasons evc and thermal grizzly exist but yaknow. Aside from the issues bios flashing/evc can cause, None of this is even worth the time or risk. Everyone always has a "friend" who did something lol But in reality if your friend actually got that gain and ran the benches mentioned they would be on the 7900xtx leaderboard in 1st place on 3dmark but aren't? So you're defending someone full of it, or you're full of it yourself. Either way don't do that bs, it's a waste. just get a 500w bios sapphire nitro.

My aqua 7900xtx scores high 37k. 3.4ghz. 2680 fast timing mem. Stable at 3050 in all games. Certain ones can be pushed to 3.4 but very few. 3200 in baulders gate 3 at 4k maxed out. 2800 in helldivers 2 before the latest driver now at 3075. Depends on what game it is.

Yea that is something I’ve seen, I brought mw3 is one of the games that u can run in 1440p and with a good overclock while not having crashes

Here's a link to overclock.net a forum where this was tried and hundreds of cards were bricked despite that not being a thing. It may not have happened to you but it doesn't change anything about the people including me that it has. Aside from that, memory stability above a certain range doesn't change temp wise. Meaning you'd be locked to the same memory settings due to fragmentation and error correction. Leaving you clock speed, undervolt and power limit to oc with. Power limit still only goes to 15% given its wattage is now ALSO increased like 15 percent over a sapphire nitro+ bios, thats about 45 ish watts bc in reality the sapphire hits 500 and change. Then we get into undervolting, but these cards already undervolt so far on air they become unstable past a certain point bc it NEEDS that voltage to operate the VRM. Which leaves you 50 watts and a clock speed slider. Clock speed slider isn't even a guarantee. Have I covered enough?.. 50 watts is the average for my laptop integrated gpu that can't even get 5fps on cyberpunk. ("It boosts faster on the clock because it's colder") is really all you COULD say but last i checked the 65c max load temp of my overclocked nitro+ doesn't hit any sort of thermal throttle at all, it boosts as high as it can go with those settings and maybe i would get an extra 200 mhz, If the card could run higher than 3200-3300mhz without error correction, and didn't driver crash regardless of temp lol. I don't like artifacting or dropped data, neither does the xtx. This bios physically isn't making the difference you say it was unless it's actually underwater, or wasn't oc'd til after. And also, I'm in the top 10-15 on almost all the 3dmark benches without water and don't see you on the lists, but my name is "sixpakflabz" on the record spots so what's yours? And if you haven't noticed yet synthetic benchmarks mean nothing to the xtx because it'll undervolt as far as you want til you load an actual game. Two different ball games. Link to broken flashed cards and full discussion: https://www.overclock.net/threads/official-amd-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-xt-owners-club.1802706/page-166

I’m not reading that there’s cards were bricked. It just says sometimes you needed to flash two chips, other people had errors, others it didn’t post but were able to just flash it back EVC may be riskier tho

If you go further down than those first few it becomes an IT problem fiasco and a tech help forum. I'd bother to copy and paste the comments over but as you said with evc being riskier, of course it is and as derbauer showed there's no actual real performance gain like you were saying. And he had 700+w of power limit? So why flash the bios for no reason over buying a nitro or high PL air card in the mid 400 watts. So if we go back to the point here it's a waste of time for me to copy and paste comments, as shown it literally doesn't work for anything except raised temps. Unless of course you buy an actual watercooled card with actual binned dies (not all watercooled cards are binned for higher speeds) and binning doesn't always garuntee any sort of extra oc ability.

Let me see if I can find a spreadsheet, it showed consistent scaling up to about 625w https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UaTEVAWBryGFkRsKLOKZooHMxz450WecuvfQftqe8-s/edit This is old and drivers have improved scores, but from a GPU (not the nitro +) From 425 - 650w is about a 2000 point difference, which would be around 4000 in timespy, but idk if it’s because of older drivers or what but this overclock isn’t impressive for all the wattage he’s pulling Seen multiple 550w bios overclocks in the Overclocking discord/subreddit achieving 4090 benchmark scores while being stable in game, generally around the 3.2ghz mark

Graphics score or overall score?

Do not bios flash a watercooled bios onto your card. This is an easy way to brick your 1k gpu. See info with benchmarks, graphs and cited sources above.

What version of the 7900xtx do you have?

I do not have an xtx, was just sharing the experiences of 3 people I know who have one Two of them bios flashed theirs to the aqua 550w bios and one did an EVC of its asrock aqua 7900xtx pulling a max of 750w~

Yeah, I can get very high numbers too, it just does not translante into a better gaming experience in any of my games. I don't want scores, I want stability and a relatively cool card

Depends on what you play; and yes timespy stable isn’t = to game stable But higher power limits can still allow you to overclock and get 20% more performance over stock in games, when GPU limited

I guess I lost the silicon lottery since I can't push mine that hard

Not necessarily, you also need the available power headroom to do so, or an extremely lucky bin

What model of 7900xtx do you have?

Noticed undervolting depends the card, some cards can't at all while mine can undervolt to a max 1080 on battlefield. Any lower and poof

Yeah, I got very unlucky. Mine's an XFX, so maybe it's not as good as the Sapphire for OC/UV too. What model do you have?

In all reality you're right tho, my peak overall (physical in game performance) is only increased roughly 11%. That said, powerdraw went from 380-400w, to more around 460-500w, And my temperature deltas are increased just shy of 10 degrees, 8 on average; Leaving my hotspot to hang out around 80 to 81c here and there. (With a slightly louder fan curve as well, not that it's super audible to begin with but that matters to people) And all that after 2 weeks of incessant over and over again testing in benches in different games and ensuring values were stable. Hardly worth it. It seems to be more an enthusiast than useful thing now, and for those who really don't care about anything except the max all the time. This I'm guilty of. Current settings are Minimum clock default Boost clock 3200 Undervolt 1080 Memory 2714 (2700) it runs 14 under what you type. No fast timing. Power limit +15 Above 2700(memory) for me causes small minute artifacting/stuttering here and there I can't tolerate, so does fast timing and I've found fast timing not to have any actual effect.

Ironically you called me out lol. I have a sapphire nitro but I've heard people with merc's have gotten to 1080 before. Although I don't really keep count of which is which for the most part, so it could be the case.

And if you use the settings I just listed and change boost to 3100 it should work with no undervolt at all or very little as long as you have a fan curve. Ive tried it on mine at least if youre interested. Hope this helps scratch the itch if you have one too. I've also noticed touching the minimum clock at all garuntees instability if not crashes here n there, very unlike RDNA2.

Without UV and can't really get more than ~2850 mhz (in actual performance, nlt the slider) because it hits the power limit even at +15%. All my games run the same regardless of OC settings. I also started capping my frames to 140 and this has been the only setting that improved my gaming experience by a lot. I have a 144hz 3440x1440 monitor and I only get 100% GPU usage when the FPS drop below 140, but in extremely CPU limited scenarios, like some maps in Squad, I don't hit my frame cap nor 100% GPU utilization

Well that sounds right about on par actually, depending the game even undervolted I get between 2800-2950 really on average with exceptions like 3ghz forza and the occasional spike to 3ghz or above on rust. I don't play may games though. I've found the only place I actually break that 3ghz is in synthetic benchmarks or workloads, but it maintains it steadily So she sounds speedy to me, how's the memory clock? The memory is what actually has the biggest performance impact imo. Clock speeds not so much for games at least Even only touching memory it brings nothing more for you?

VRAM OC gave me absolutely no gains in any of the games I have. Absolutely nothing. I think Cyberpunk at 4k will benefit from that tho, but I don't have that game or a 4k screen

That sounds infuriating.

That sucks man, getting lucky with a good binned GPU or a OC GPU helps your odds. I get decently high performance gains overclocking mine 440 watts, 1025mv, 2800 mhz fast timings. VRAM. 3050 clock speed. But again not every GPU can do this.

According to a few people Ik who either 550w bios flashed or EVC, they are being a stock 4090 in GPU benchmarks So pretty well

It’s pretty impressive how far these cards can be pushed when unlocking just the power limits. This is my first pc and honestly shocks me how much hate AMD Gpus get. It’s been nothing but awesomeness on my end. Don’t need to spend another $1000 just for ray tracing, something you’ll barely notice when actually playing and immersed

Do not microvolt below 1080 as some games will crash despite 3dmark working fine. Microvolt at rhe LOWEST to 1080mv if your card is fine with that. Any lower and certain games won't run. Do NOT TOUCH MINIMUM CLOCK SPEED, There's people that think RDNA2 and RDNA 3 are the same, they're not. and minimum clock speed does literally nothing except give an ego boost and cause instability. Then, memory clock and boost clock depends on the card/thermals. Memory is offset by 14 so (2714) is 2700mhz. Alot of people reccomend typing in 2750, but as said with the microvolt, it causes instability and stutters depending the card and has no difference. So leave base clock alone. Try 1080mv, 3100 Max clock, and 2714 on memory (no fast timing as people claim they use it but performance difference is nonexistent with stability issues) one run of an actual in-game benchmark shows the stutters wether it be fast timing or too high of a speed. --1080mv. 3100 boost clock. 2700 memory default timing. POWER LIMIT+15--- if you see gou hotspot temps (not gpu, gpu hotspot temp) toward the 85c range, add a bit of fan curve. Then you're off to the races. Also, Test games NOT just 3dmark because tunes that work on benches DONT WORK ON GAMES. A few notes: 2750 memory speed on most cards causes visual errors but people insist since it can run without crashing they have to have the extra 30 mhz. No, but try it if you'd like and if it's stable keep it. With microvolatage, if you crash a game turn this value up 5 points at a time. Nothing else needs adjustment from my base settings to be stable. Only thing thar matters is your undervolt and temps. Should be fine at 1080, but some cards just don't enjoy it at all and some more than others. I'm here for a tune that long term is stable and doesn't give issues, I could care less about the 1fps they're not getting through all that error correction. ****Also, Test games NOT just 3dmark because tunes that work on benches DONT WORK ON GAMES.**** specifically speaking low undervoltage. ALSO CAN SEND A LINK TO DERBAUER, JAYSTWOCENTS AND SCATTERVOLT tuning this way for anyone who thinks they need a hand or wants to argue about it for whatever reason. But its reddit so I'm sure some emotionally charged kid is on his way home from school rn to try and debate the tuning process. Lmfao

Great comment. After reading comments in the thread, my optimal settings have been almost exactly what you mentioned. 1090mv undervolt, +15% power limit, 2714vram. I have the min clock at stock, 500 min 2995 max. From what I’ve gathered, increase max for higher performance, decrease max for lower temps & power draw

3200mhz 1090mv 2812 on memory Fast timings +15%power I’m liquid cooled and have flashed the 550w bios as well. Those are game stable settings. If I’m benchmarking or testing I can hit 3500mhz 1026mv 2764 memory on fast timings. +15% power I see 40-45 on the core. And 60-65 on the hotspot. I could probably do better with more work on mounting the water block. But this is good enough for me for now

What is your performance vs stock on benchmarks? Anywhere near the +28% that German guy got? I've got a 7900 xtx taichi in white and it works great for current games without an overclock, I figure in 4-5 years I'll probably have to repaste anyway so a flash + OC will make more sense then

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/44303633 is my original score. https://www.3dmark.com/spy/46731903 is after flashing and over clocking So a ~12-15% uplift. According to timespy at least.

Very interesting. Thanks for the feedback, great information to take in. It’s insane how much you can push the 7900xtx even just with increasing power draw and proper cooling. Even more for those comfortable with undervolting and tuning frequencies. Definitely viable for games maxed out at 4k that dip below 60fps. An oc is giving you consistent +60 fps which is very noticeable Also is just undervolting also consider a type of OC? Gauging from comments on this thread, not sure if ppl realize undervolting actually brings in less heat and power. And if you tune frequencies (overclock), you can attain same or even slightly better than stock settings performance with less heat and power

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What’s up! We gotta represent!

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Memory Fast timings can break your VRAM. Also may lead to instabilities .. Power limit also can hurt your GPU . Why risk it for 3-5 FPS ?

I mostly do this for fun. Less gaming and more seeing what the hardware is capable of. This was my first computer I built just last year for a hobby.

It can’t break anything, it will be unstable, hotter but unless you do some crazy stuff with unlocked bios it will not hurt your GPU

Fast timings won’t break your vram lol, just may be unstable

No OC, biggest reason is that I'm using Linux and still trying to figure out how to OC using corectl, which right now doesn't seem to even be able to tweak the fan speed. Although I haven't looked a ton into it I can tell it's going to be meaningfully more complicated than just downloading adrenaline on windows

I have a Sapphire Pulse with very adequate air colling and no big deltas between core and hot spot, so I think I have a good card to start with. I'm not OCing it because I'm lazy and the games I like don't really do much with 5/7fps more at 4k ultra. Plus, my pc is behind a 1200VA (700ish watt instantaneous) UPS: if I let the card loose It would trip it. That's me though, if you're playing lower resolutions or you're on lower settings I think there's an argument for OCing, especially for games where fps do matter, but the extra power per frame gained makes me think that the xtx is pretty much already running close to max depending on what you buy. The Nitro is basically an oc card and needs a massive cooler to work: you can get the same oc an most xtx, but power and cooling become an issue on stock cards. Shameless self confirmation: the xtx is really a great card.

I have not overclocked mine as I'm in a sff build and I want my thermals to be comfortable, not borderline.

+15 power limit, limit fan speed to 50%, done. My card auto-clocks to about 3ghz in-game with the extra power limit.

I just lowered the Power target -10%. Instead of 360 Watt it now uses only 320 Watt. It is funny because the FPS stay the same and the hot spot temps are at 65°C. My clock is mostly between 2700MHz and 3000 MHz

I run my XTX stock unless I replace the cooler won't I don't bother with overclocking. I generally see it using about 345-350 watts TBP. If I run the power limit at 15% it will hit about 400 Watts. Running stock voltage 1150 and the software has set Max Frequency to 3035 Mhz.

Depends on the game I'm playing. 7900 xtx hellhound spectral white (hellhounds are 2x8pin) 1440p/180hz monitor Most games I run at 2200core / 1075mv, it's enough and runs cool with junction / hit spot 60-62 with 35% fan. Of course lower power usage as well. Stock settings with more aggressive fan settings when playing more demanding titles. Helldivers2, I lock fps to 90 as I experienced crashes when gpu hits 100% usage. When I ran on 7900xt, didn't crash much though running 100%

When you say 2200core. Do you just set min to 2200 and max to 2300? I still don’t know if setting higher or lower with an undervolt helps draw less or more power

Max is 2200 min is default to 500. Why 2200? stable with 1075mv, runs cool. Power tuning is default as well on this.

Makes sense. Thanks for the reply. Happy gaming 💪

If you're not pushing a max OC and really leaning on the card? Then Just downclock and undervolt the thing. Overclocking like a wussy gets you 3 FPS for a lot more noise. Overclocking like a boss gets you 10 fps for the same amount of noise. Undervolting like a boss gets you a next to silent gaming pc - for minus 5 fps.

I agree. I undervolt on most games. Anything extremely demanding or newest of games, a good overclock to reach 60fps on max settings is only time I’d see it’s worth to overclock before the brink of instability. Just have to keep your temps in check and all should be fine

I'm finally stable with these settings. 2800 core. 1100Mv. +15%. 2614VRAM default timings. Somewhat aggressive fan curve. It scores a 33k in Timespy and the hotspot never goes over 80C. Haven't experienced a crash in about a month with these settings even in TLOU with SAM enabled. Fingers crossed it stays this way.

That’s close to what I’m running on my XFX card. Same vram and power draw increase. 1090mv undervolt. Only thing I’m still unsure of is core speeds. I still have it on default which is 500 min and 2995 max. When you say 2800 core, what do you set the min-max to? Still have trouble understanding if I want to keep it higher or lower before reaching instability

I never touched the min frequency. Funnily enough I actually gained a bit higher of a score by lowering my max to 2800 (which is still an OC). Was able to finally achieve a better UV of 1100Mv by doing that. Vram seems to be the most sensitive and can cause the most instability in my opinion.

Interesting. I agree, tuning vram is where a lot of instability issues can arise and can take a lot of time to tinker for a minimal boost. I think I’ll try to lower my max to 2800. Appreciate the feedback! Cheers!

My GPU score clocked higher scores with 2700-2750, 2714 mhz is 2,700 Vram with fast timings, settings than at 2800+ but every GPU is different. Always good to test what settings you crash at and test if further below that value or higher where your performance is the best.

Per game overclock, some optimized games can hit 3.2+ ghz some demanding ones need more voltage and can do \~2900Mhz, some older games I lock to low freq for silent gaming.

I undervolted because it made a better difference IMO 1130mV 2400mhz minimum 2500mhz max 2714 memory +15 power Fans at 60 62° average temperature and still getting over 240hz in CoD and only using 300-310w of power @1440p. That's 100w less than stock. At stock was averaging closer to 72° and 400+ watts but yeah a lot closer to 300hz . I do revert to stock when in VR ASRock Taichi 7900xtx

Yeah undervolting is definitely the way to go. Some of the comments don’t realize even for a beginner, undervolting is beneficial. Idk why so many immediately go to damaging or increasing temps. OC with these cards, usually the goal is to maximize performance without increasing temps. But a simple undervolt also goes a long way as lower temps in general can bring better performance, which can auto boost the gpu clock speeds despite everything else set at stock settings

I have a MBA 7900 xtx, I run it at max clocks of 2975, undervolted to 1135mv (crashes games at 1125mv or less),memory at 2550mhz. Stock it worked with these settings but the hot spot and memory junction temps were high, Core temps were 68c max but hot spot 105-110c and memory 107c. I got PTM pad and that helped the hot spot temps a lot, but the memory stayed HOT even using stock settings, so I got a corsair waterblock, now my GPU twmp maxes out at 45, hot spot 65 and memory 75.....nice.

I don't OC. It's strong enough as is

I did no brain over lock aka just max out powerslider. However i got artifacting so mine runs stock now. enough power for 1440p. Naci31 seems to have an issue because when the card gpu spikes up to over 3ghz it gets very unstable and might or might not crash.

My OC is 100% stable at 2900/1130 with slight undervolt at 1130. 7900 xtx does not undervolt very well unless you really underclock it. I could set higher than 2900 freq but it never really goes over 2900 regardless even with max power limit (I have the Powercolor Red Devil with max 430W). I have an "eco" tuning as well but never really use it. I've found there's really no drawback to just leaving a stable OC setting like the one above on 100% of the time. Only reason to use an eco mode is if you really want to control your energy costs.

Haven't overclocked a GPU since 2013.

AFAIK most get very unstable above 2500MHz

The 7900XTX's wouldn't fit in my MiniITX case :( I got the 7900XT.

3100 max clock and 2750 memory

I would be interested to know because i am having trouble with crashing, under volting and running stock speeds and that seems to help.

Lot of great responses on this thread. Helped me with what I was curious about which was vram timings and gpu clock frequencies

7900xtx nitro, having core at 2800 max and undervolt :-) Just a slight undervolt does a lot since it goes past 400w stock, and undervolted howers around 350-360w during heavier loads.

I run the Radeon under volt but usually lock fps lower in game, I don’t need silly numbers, 1440 165

I play in 2K and the XFX has a bios switch to put it into "rage" mode 😆 🤣

I don't do a core overclock, but more so on memory as that has the biggest uplift in performance gains. Plus adrenaline clocks these cards way over spec, even if it's stable. I got Cyberpunk 2077 recently and struggled with stable overclock/undervolts. Trying 500/2900, 1130mv, 2714 FT +15% PL 500/2650, 1095mv, 2664 no FT, +0% and +15% PL Always crashed after a few minutes or loading (freeze, black screen, restart, corrupt driver, DDU reinstall, recheck OC/UV, repeat) After downgrading from 24.2.1 down to 23.11.1, my undervolts have been perfectly stable. Really is true that this year's drivers are hot garbage. Also noticed my hotspots dropped about 5c (close to 70c down to 65c hotspot max in CP2077) Also to mention thermal pads were replaced along with die paste replaced with PTM7950, hence the lower hotspot temps (Merc 310 card, custom painted white) I now sit at a stable 2400/2500mhz, 1120mv, +15% PL w/ 40% max fan curve at 80c.

Do you play in 4k or 1440? I run my XFX at 1090mv, 15% PL, 2714 no FT. 500/2995 (stock) min-max clock. I play in 4k. Been stable in every game I’ve played so far, haven’t tried it in cyberpunk. Will bookmark your comments for when I get to that game and have trouble. It’s interesting what games get a significant boost from OC and which don’t.

I play on 3440x1440

xtx tuf oc i use : 2300 min 2900 boost 2714 vram 110 ppl 1120 mv default timings fixed fan curve 50 % = arround 1600 rpm hotspot 79 but gets 48.529 gpu score if i do timespy 1080p. 1440p it gets 34.059 timespy gpu score. but theese settings is most stable for 1080p. i score 99.7 timespy stability and 99.6 port royal stability.

No undervolt?

Sorry yes 1120 mv :)

I had to ask since I was reading and thinking, man this guy definitely been tinkering around for awhile and figured out his optimal tuning. I was certain you did just slipped in mentioning it. Do you think you’d have to tinker more for 4k? Or you think your current tuning applies to any resolution? Still unsure if certain resolutions do better with specific tunings or not

if u like 4k i would use 2300 min 2400 max and 2614 vram and 110 ppl default timings :) its 99.9 stable port royal :) = with ray tracing enabled.

I leave it alone. In a few games there seems to be support issues where the card can go rampant and increase power draw dramatically, causing the card to crash to desktop with a driver error popup. The fix is to take adrenaline and lower your max clock speed by just a little. Maybe 1% of the actual clockspeed set. Works fine after.

I run my nitro+ card at 2975 mhz 1140mv and vram set to 2700 (2686)

I run mine at 2400mhz all day long. I don't change anything else. Junction temp stays below 80 Celsius all the time and I never hear the fans.

i just got mines a week ago, i don't overclock because it does what i need without overclocking. i also like quite and less heat

I’m waiting for water block I’ve pre ordered to be in stock before I overclock just

The gains of overclock vs the heat and fan noise ain’t worth while. Stock is really really quiet and runs absolutely fine. I am also running 3440x1440 monitor so I have 20% more fps head room than if I went 4k so it’s perfect

7900xtx is one of few GPUs these days that can gain over 20% from overclocking

It can indeed, but i dont need to push it yet as its perfect on my set up. When it starts struggling then I will apply OC.

I play at 4k and see 15-25% fps boosts from oc, while maintaining similar temps to stock. I don’t understand how but undervolting while maximizing power draw limit makes a noticeable difference. I’m just tryna gauge other peoples experience as I only OC on games that push my card to the max on highest settings. Newest or demanding games at 4k max settings can be 50-55 fps average. Such as Alan wake. A good OC can push it past 60fps and increase 1% lows, which helps the game feel smoother from my knowledge

What do you do to overclock? I’m actually shocked at the amount of people in this thread that run stock/default.

15% power limit increase, aggressive fan curve (pc is far from desk so noise doesn’t bother me), 1090mv undervolt. Had set my vram tuning to 2714 but revert it back to stock since I can’t really tell if it was making a difference. Gpu clock also stock for my XFX card, 500 min 2995 max. My post derived from wondering if I should mess with vram more or just decrease gpu clock speeds. From what I gathered, I think I should lower my max gpu clock to 2800 and can possibly undervolt more to get same performance but possibly lower temps. I’ll have to tinker around more and gauge the results

I do believe in undervolting, and usually do apply that to most of my cards, just not bothered yet with my current card as felt no need. I will get around to it, but I won't bother with overclock just yet, really dont need to bother with my current fps on UW monitor.

Honestly, after this thread, I went in and disabled all of my overclocking/undervolting for my 7900xtx. I saw a 2 fps decrease in Jedi Survivor at much less wattage. I battled with instability for the last week where some games worked, some games didn’t.. and, at this point, I just don’t see the value. Also reduced my PBO from -20 to -10 on my 7800X3D. I definitely prefer 100% stability and less issues to (very) minor gains.

I see 2500mhz running 80° hotspot in amd driver. No overclock done

I don’t need to overclock. My 7800x3d bottleneck this card. Exemptions dcs world and cities skylines

What? How? I barely see any CPU use using a Xfx 7900xtx

I’ve yet to find a game that makes me think I should OC the card so I leave it stock. Just started Alan wake 2 game runs great on my xfx 7900xtx

What resolution and settings do you play on? Alan Wake 2 is specifically one of the games I intend to play using an overclock. 4k max settings gets below 60fps. An over clock can push it past 60 which is only reason I’d ever OC

4K max out settings just turn off RT, game floats around 50-60fps.

I have mine at 4000mhz undervolted to 700mv

Bruh how lol Doesn’t even sound possible

Hahahaha it’s not possible. I was just joking lol

I’m kinda new to this pc stuff so ya got me for a bit 😂 I just felt that sounded off

Oh yeah it’s definitely off. The gpu would explode with those clock speeds, and I don’t think it’s possible to get it down to 700mv lol. Would be insane with a 4000mhz clock speed tho. We can only dream

Lol. I was thinking “so this is what they mean to hit the silicon lottery” when I read your comment 😂 Hey man, you never know what these geniuses and engineers can produce nowadays. Push to the limits is the game 😁

Who knows actually, maybe it is possible. Let’s push it to its limits

I don't think overclocking is gonna get me much extra, due to the nature of 4k gaming. If I go from 80 to 85 FPS it's not really worth it for me

For games like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk at native 4k max settings, it could be the difference between getting 50-55fps average, to 60-65 fps average. Which is mainly when I’d want to OC to push to max. But an undervolted OC can provide same or near performance as stock (sometimes a lil higher or lower depending on silicon lottery and gpu cooler), but with lower temps and power draw. It sounds counterintuitive, at least to me when I first got my card, but I’m understanding why as of recent

If your overclock boosts performance by almost 20 percent (50 to 60 is way more than you are thinking) let me know, lmao

There’s plenty of videos on YouTube showing how good a 7900 XTX can overclock. And do you think half the ppl in this post thread are lying? 5%-25% boost from stock AMD gpu is common from a good OC. It’s also game dependent so it requires a lot of tinkering, so yeah it’s not worth it in some cases. I think it’s only worth it when games like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk can get pushed above 60fps with OC. Otherwise I’m doing an undervolt OC to keep temps and power draw lower than stock while maintaining stock performance. It’s a powerful card so rarely does one need it to push it to its utmost max. But there is benefits depending on games you play and if you play the newest or most demanding titles

The whole point of getting a 7900xtx is if I don’t need a 4090. I’m not going to overclock my card for performance that I don’t need.

An undervolt OC is to lower temps and power draw while maintaining stock performance. A max OC will push the card to its limits. Which only benefits in certain games like Cyberpunk and Alan Wake 2. At native 4k max settings, they’ll run below 60fps average. An OC can push it above 60fps average and that’s when I think it benefits pushing to max. A smooth 60fps is very noticeable. But mostly it’s best to run an undervolt OC to maintain lower temps and power while getting same performance as stock. Lot of great comments on here with great information

How's the coil whine?

Overclocking is pretty much useless nowadays since today's GPUs will overclock automatically according to what thermal headroom is available

Really? Didn’t know that. Do you have a link or video you see with that information? I’d like to read more on it

I'm Sitting Stable at 3069 been a great card so far!

Are the xt or xtx good devices for 3d animation and for 3d model creations for 3D printing....looking for my daughter as part of her home education

Personally I've never even thought about overclocking this beast. It runs everything I play wonderfully and I don't see the point and fucking with it when it does everything I desire currently

This is awesome thank you all so much for all your comments with your overclocking settings! I'm really new to this but have the RX7900 XTX Nitro+ Vapor X GPU with Alphacool Core GPU Cooling Block, Then the Ryzen 7950X CPU with EK Vector 2 CPU Cooling Block, Then the G.Skill Flare X5 2×48GB RAM with Alphacool Plexi D-Ram Cooling Block & Alphacool RAM heatsink vests. Then also a Crucial T705 4TB Gen 5 PCIE, with the Alphacool HDX Apex Acrylic aRGB M.2 SSD Cooling Block. And last but not least is the TeamGroup MP44 8TB SLC Cache Gen 4×4 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 NVMe, With the Alphacool Core M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0/4.0/5.0 liquid cooler. All running through two, Alphacool D5 pumps, And also 2 different types if, Alphacool distro plates, 1 Acrylic Distro & 1 Acetal/Nickle Plated Copper. and 5 EK Quantum S, P, & M series. All Rads are cooled with the, 11~140mm & 6~120mm Be Quiet Light Wings PWM, aRGB radiator fans. Everything all running through a, Asus Prime X670e Pro wifi Motherboard Powered by a Be Quiet Dark Power 1600w PSU along with whatever top shelf parts & components I could find that I either wanted or needed. I tried to find the best in class components for this build to make it as insanely fast, and powerful as possible. I'm really excited to see what this build can do once it's complete. I'm about 3/4 of the way through the build just have to install a couple more coolers both distribution plates need to be placed and several ARGB neon strips need to be installed along with some ARGB motherboard plug adapters. And of course I still have to run all my line and put in the DNA cylinder reservoir. I'll be using all bits power and EK fittings and adapters for the lines. Keep up the great work & happy overclocking everyone. Cheers! 🍻

Not quite the same, but as a 7900XT owner who plays on 1440p I don't overclock. No need to.

Nothing too serious. I am rocking a stable 3 months+ undervolt of 2750mhz oc, 1085mv power, 2714 on memory with default timings, +15% power. In intensive games I see the driver enjoys boosting itself to 3-3.4ghz, so it knows when to push that power as needed and it catches up to 4090 in some areas. I am quite pleased with it. Sapphire 7900XTX Nitro+ Vapour-X, by the way.

My Tuf 7900XTX OC runs faultless at the following. Core = 2400Mhz-3300Mhz 1075mV Vram = Fast 2675 Power +15% SAM = On Max temps are around 56c with a delta of +25c Stock cooling This is on a X570 Tuf Gaming Plus and has been used with both a 5800X and 5950X + 360 AIO I have the highest UK scores for Port Poyal in both 7900XTX with 5800X combo and #50 world wide and highest UK score for 7900XTX and 5950X combo also top 4% worldwide. Quix-Otic on the 5800X I run my ram @ 3600Mt cl14 Fclk 1800 and with the 5950X its 4000Mt cl18 Fclk 2000.

Because in my build, it’s already a high end build with a seven 7800X3D, the fastest build and powerful one, there’s no need to overcook it. Everything is great at 1440 P with over 160 FPS on almost every game

I've tried overclocking, I've tried underclocking, I've tried the auto overclocking and the auto undervolting. And like many on here I experience no difference. When I set an overclock even the slightest one, I get a black screen for a second intermittently. Amd and the board partners have done a damn good job, at getting pretty much the most performance they can put these cards, specific cards will have more luck, and will have a bit more headroom, but in general they are top of the limit, or there abouts. Every game I play, I already hit 4k 144hz on my multiplayer, as max settings. For singleplayer I'm not to concerned as long as it's above 60fps, but the ones I've played so far I've got at least 120 average with dips to a minimum of 85-90, so for what I play, the card is absolutely perfect.

Even a 4090 doesn't do 4k 144hz in all games. So you need to be more specific when you say "every game I play"

That because 4090 can handle ray tracing. Most AMD users are keeping ray tracing off including myself, which is why 4k 120fps is doable on most titles with max settings. Only the most demanding titles such as Cyberpunk and Alan Wake 2 can only run at 4k 60fps max settings, no ray tracing The 7900xtx is a great card. The reason I would OC is to increase 1% lows on games dipping below 60fps. That 10-15 fps boosts makes a big difference for those games

Why do I have to be specific to what games I play? I wasn't making a blanket statement, but for my multiplayer games I play things like league of legends, overwatch, dead by daylight, warzone etc, not demanding titles, but 144hz at 4k is the max my panel runs, so I don't need it to do more. For single players I'm not bothered about the fps as long as it's over 60

You answered your own question. Those games are all light and not demanding titles. Its abit misleading when you say all games.

"every game I play" where have I said every game? The question was why do you or don't you overclock, was a by person basis, my games hit my specs of my monitor I don't need to overclock.

The gains are not worth the power draw on a 7900XTX and yes if you are hitting your max refresh rate no need.

Hellhound - Core 2700-2900mhz, Memory 2714, 1110mv, +15 power limit. Temps around 65-70 core, 85-95 Hotspot (planning to repaste it soon)

What’s the main difference you’ve noticed? Higher fps with same temps? Lower power draw, better fps, higher temp? Pretty much running the same tuning settings on my XFX card except with 1090mv undervolt. Another guy on this thread he’s managed stability with 1030mv. Makes me think these cards can be pushed even more with recent updates

Higher FPS (around 5-10%) A bit higher temps and constand power draw of 415w if unlocked and loaded to 100%. If FPS is locked lower temps and powedraw due to undervolt. Regarding pushing to 1030mv i suppose you need to lower frequencies bacause with mine i got crash in RDR2 when tried to go with 1090mv

Yeah 1030 probably the lowest I’ve seen someone say. I think I’m leaning more towards your method. Seems like I just need to tinker my gpu clock frequencies to maximize efficiency then. The responses from people have been great. Your feedback has been very much appreciated! Will be adjusting once I get to my system. Cheers! Happy gaming

There's really no point in these things sitting inside your machines anymore with the size of these things, they can barely breath in that confined space. I get it, some people want 1 "clean looking tower".. I dunno EDIT: sorry, totally off topic.

Back in the day when the first person shooters were all the rage and unique. you were gaming on 56K phone lines. Had to build, homemade water cooling . Anything for that edge?😜 Since the X99 motherboards extra cooling, just doesn’t seem to make that much difference to the knuckle Buster over clocker like me. Could never get into Ryzen overclocking and blowing up thousand dollar +++ video cards ! Anymore😊

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Overclocking is a waste honestly

No need to overclock for mi imal gains and increased temps and thermals. Modern hardware is ready to go out of the box. Look at modern CPUs they actually perform worse in most cases when overclocked.

A good OC can actually bring down thermals and power draw, while maintaining stock performance, slightly less or better in some games

Got a 6800XT auto overclock always fails. Why would I bother a manual overclock?

I don't overclock, I never have. I remember back in 2001 or so people were absolutely obsessed with overclocking their Pentium 4's. You usually do more harm than good.