RTX 3080 FE Overclocking

[jtx]

I overclocked my RTX 3080 FE yesterday to the values in this image and pretty much did not get a boost in fps/performance in Warzone. Is it worth leaving it overclocked if it's not boosting the performance of the main game i am playing right now? or should i revert it back to normal?

Thanks in advance 

[TheOne320]

What software is recommended for overclocking founders edition cards?

[jtx]

40 minutes ago, TheOne320 said:

What software is recommended for overclocking founders edition cards?

MSI Afterburner?

[tikker]

Two points. First, every card is different so you'll have to find your own limits. Copying settings from that screenshot worked as you don't seem to have issues, but it doesn't mean your specific card is at its limit or can reach those. Second, probably more important, temperatures are very important. GPU Boost will determine how high the card will try to boost based on power and temperatures. If I'm not mistaken that already starts dropping at 60 C or even lower, so ultimately you'll be temperature limited if you don't upgrade the cooler and probably power limited as well.

4 hours ago, jtx said:

Is it worth leaving it overclocked if it's not boosting the performance of the main game i am playing right now? or should i revert it back to normal?

It won't harm anything. It'll just crash if it is unstable. If you want to find your max overclock find a GPU heavy benchmark and run that. Then what I typically do is put power limit to the max and start increasing core offset little by little, say +50 MHz at a time (maybe more aggressive if you "know" some offsets can be reached). Each time you up the clock, run the benchmark, see if your clocks and performance increase and keep an eye on temperatures. Once it crashes you have reached the limit and you dial back. Now put the core back to stock and repeat the same for memory. Finally see if they play nice together and you have your max overclock. If you really want to push more you can try adding voltage offsets for more stability, but keep an eye on temperatures.

[jtx]

44 minutes ago, tikker said:

Two points. First, every card is different so you'll have to find your own limits. Copying settings from that screenshot worked as you don't seem to have issues, but it doesn't mean your specific card is at its limit or can reach those. Second, probably more important, temperatures are very important. GPU Boost will determine how high the card will try to boost based on power and temperatures. If I'm not mistaken that already starts dropping at 60 C or even lower, so ultimately you'll be temperature limited if you don't upgrade the cooler and probably power limited as well.

It won't harm anything. It'll just crash if it is unstable. If you want to find your max overclock find a GPU heavy benchmark and run that. Then what I typically do is put power limit to the max and start increasing core offset little by little, say +50 MHz at a time (maybe more aggressive if you "know" some offsets can be reached). Each time you up the clock, run the benchmark, see if your clocks and performance increase and keep an eye on temperatures. Once it crashes you have reached the limit and you dial back. Now put the core back to stock and repeat the same for memory. Finally see if they play nice together and you have your max overclock. If you really want to push more you can try adding voltage offsets for more stability, but keep an eye on temperatures.

Thank you for all the info. The settings i copied are from here, which is the exact same card so that's why i copied the same values. 

[tikker]

4 hours ago, jtx said:

Thank you for all the info. The settings i copied are from here, which is the exact same card so that's why i copied the same values. 

Yeah of course there's reasonably good chance those will work. It's just there's always the silicon lottery, so even the exact same hardware will have different limits.