RTX 3060 overclocking

[jetsonxr6]

Hi all, I am looking for some help overclocking my MSI RTX 3060 x2 oc ventus 12gb, what program is best to use and can someone provide steps to overclock 

[Anghammarad]

with current availability.. just don't ...

[Eighjan]

51 minutes ago, jetsonxr6 said:

Hi all, I am looking for some help overclocking my MSI RTX 3060 x2 oc ventus 12gb, what program is best to use and can someone provide steps to overclock 

Your expectations may be a large factor in this, too - if you're looking to bridge a gap that would otherwise require "the next card up", you may be (sorely) disappointed.

[BetteBalterZen]

I prefer using MSI Afterburner, and you basically just increase the Core Clock MHz offset to overclock.
 

Start by downloading (and installing) MSI Afterburner, Unigine Heaven and fx HWiNFO. 

 

Then;

Start Heaven, and let it run to have a load on your GPU

Star HWiNFO, and monitor GPU temps and clock speeds

Start Afterburner, and begin to increase Core Clock, with +15 increments - and do this until Heaven crashes

When Heaven crashes, dile it back 15/30 MHz. 

 

Now, if you wanna push it further, consider increasing the Power Limit in Afterburner. This lets your card pull more power than stock, enabling it to clock higher before crashing. Also, as you can see, by default the Power Limit and Temps limit is linked, because increasing the power, will of course increase the temps. 

So you have to allow higher temps with more power. You might wanna increase fan speeds aswell, maybe do a custom fan curve. 

If you want something easier to follow, I would suggest looking up JayzTwoCents overclocking videos

 

[jetsonxr6]

5 hours ago, Eighjan said:

Your expectations may be a large factor in this, too - if you're looking to bridge a gap that would otherwise require "the next card up", you may be (sorely) disappointed.

No not at all, a gain of 5 fps on all games@ Max settings would be great

[jetsonxr6]

5 hours ago, BetteBalterZen said:

I prefer using MSI Afterburner, and you basically just increase the Core Clock MHz offset to overclock.
 

Start by downloading (and installing) MSI Afterburner, Unigine Heaven and fx HWiNFO. 

 

Then;

Start Heaven, and let it run to have a load on your GPU

Star HWiNFO, and monitor GPU temps and clock speeds

Start Afterburner, and begin to increase Core Clock, with +15 increments - and do this until Heaven crashes

When Heaven crashes, dile it back 15/30 MHz. 

 

Now, if you wanna push it further, consider increasing the Power Limit in Afterburner. This lets your card pull more power than stock, enabling it to clock higher before crashing. Also, as you can see, by default the Power Limit and Temps limit is linked, because increasing the power, will of course increase the temps. 

So you have to allow higher temps with more power. You might wanna increase fan speeds aswell, maybe do a custom fan curve. 

If you want something easier to follow, I would suggest looking up JayzTwoCents overclocking videos

 

I understand all your advice and I will do exactly what you have stated, I do have 1 question about gpu memory clock, do I leave that at its nominal value?

[BetteBalterZen]

1 hour ago, jetsonxr6 said:

I understand all your advice and I will do exactly what you have stated, I do have 1 question about gpu memory clock, do I leave that at its nominal value?

No, when you have found a stable Core OC, then start tweaking the memory  I'd push it with +50MHz increments, and do this while Heaven in running and so on, just like with Core OC. When you start to see artifacts, then you know you're pushing it too far. 

[BetteBalterZen]

@jetsonxr6

Oh also, just because a overclock is stable in Heaven, that does not mean that it is actually stable. Some random video game might crash because that specific video games puts a specific load on the GPU. 

So when you find a stable OC in Heaven, go back 30MHz - this will make it more certain to be actually stable in all games. 

[jetsonxr6]

5 hours ago, BetteBalterZen said:

@jetsonxr6

Oh also, just because a overclock is stable in Heaven, that does not mean that it is actually stable. Some random video game might crash because that specific video games puts a specific load on the GPU. 

So when you find a stable OC in Heaven, go back 30MHz - this will make it more certain to be actually stable in all games. 

Awesome, thanks for all the help 

[SappySE107]

OCCT was able to detect a memory overclock issue that was causing random resets on nicehash.  Benchmarks and games were fine 100mhz higher than the mining cared to deal with so I wanted to mention it for stability testing.  I too prefer MSI Afterburner for overclocking.

[iMxmo]

On 11/30/2021 at 5:52 AM, BetteBalterZen said:

I prefer using MSI Afterburner, and you basically just increase the Core Clock MHz offset to overclock.
 

Start by downloading (and installing) MSI Afterburner, Unigine Heaven and fx HWiNFO. 

 

Then;

Start Heaven, and let it run to have a load on your GPU

Star HWiNFO, and monitor GPU temps and clock speeds

Start Afterburner, and begin to increase Core Clock, with +15 increments - and do this until Heaven crashes

When Heaven crashes, dile it back 15/30 MHz. 

 

Now, if you wanna push it further, consider increasing the Power Limit in Afterburner. This lets your card pull more power than stock, enabling it to clock higher before crashing. Also, as you can see, by default the Power Limit and Temps limit is linked, because increasing the power, will of course increase the temps. 

So you have to allow higher temps with more power. You might wanna increase fan speeds aswell, maybe do a custom fan curve. 

If you want something easier to follow, I would suggest looking up JayzTwoCents overclocking videos

 

 

19 hours ago, BetteBalterZen said:

No, when you have found a stable Core OC, then start tweaking the memory  I'd push it with +50MHz increments, and do this while Heaven in running and so on, just like with Core OC. When you start to see artifacts, then you know you're pushing it too far. 

Great guidelines by Zen, this is pretty much all you need to do when overclocking a GPU. It's a fairly simple process. 

Like Zen said, test your GPU settings in the games you want a performance increase on, or any other frequently used applications. As just a stable run on Heaven may not mean your GPU is entirely stable, I recommend OCCT (SMALL AVX2) to further test system stability.
 
As for the PL/Temps, you can of course adjust the PL and push some extra voltage to the card that may allow for higher clocks. But that would in turn also produce more heat, a custom fan curve would be ideal. 

Heres a tip: At the top right of Afterburner there's a Windows logo, activating it would mean Afterburner applies the GPU settings once the system enters Windows. This is useful for when you have a stable overclock, but it can become very frustrating when your display gets fucked and a system restart is in order. Then just repeating the entire process eventually getting into Safe Mode to disable the OC. Turn off that setting until you have a suitable OC. 

Make sure you're on the correct driver for your GPU and BIOS version. If not, it could cause incorrect readouts in HWiNFO

[jetsonxr6]

Also can you please advise me on unigine Heaven settings that I should use and how long to run unigine heaven each time 

[jetsonxr6]

On 12/2/2021 at 12:18 AM, iMxmo said:

 

Great guidelines by Zen, this is pretty much all you need to do when overclocking a GPU. It's a fairly simple process. 

Like Zen said, test your GPU settings in the games you want a performance increase on, or any other frequently used applications. As just a stable run on Heaven may not mean your GPU is entirely stable, I recommend OCCT (SMALL AVX2) to further test system stability.
 
As for the PL/Temps, you can of course adjust the PL and push some extra voltage to the card that may allow for higher clocks. But that would in turn also produce more heat, a custom fan curve would be ideal. 

Heres a tip: At the top right of Afterburner there's a Windows logo, activating it would mean Afterburner applies the GPU settings once the system enters Windows. This is useful for when you have a stable overclock, but it can become very frustrating when your display gets fucked and a system restart is in order. Then just repeating the entire process eventually getting into Safe Mode to disable the OC. Turn off that setting until you have a suitable OC. 

Make sure you're on the correct driver for your GPU and BIOS version. If not, it could cause incorrect readouts in HWiNFO

Is this a good fan curve or what do you recommend?

[iMxmo]

8 minutes ago, jetsonxr6 said:

Is this a good fan curve or what do you recommend?

 

Fan curve is up to personal preference and how much noise levels matter to you. Either way if it's unsatisfactory then just apply a more aggressive curve. 

[jetsonxr6]

19 minutes ago, iMxmo said:

 

Fan curve is up to personal preference and how much noise levels matter to you. Either way if it's unsatisfactory then just apply a more aggressive curve. 

@iMxmo do you think that a more aggressive curve will make a difference to performance?

[iMxmo]

Test it out yourself, see if you can push mClock and bClock further with a higher fan speed

 

Usually pushing some extra voltage (or adjusting power limits) will increase the clockspeed ceiling, in turn for some extra heat. 

At a certain point lowering power limit/temperature limit then the GPU will downclock to stay under that threshold. 

[jetsonxr6]

15 hours ago, iMxmo said:

Test it out yourself, see if you can push mClock and bClock further with a higher fan speed

 

Usually pushing some extra voltage (or adjusting power limits) will increase the clockspeed ceiling, in turn for some extra heat. 

At a certain point lowering power limit/temperature limit then the GPU will downclock to stay under that threshold. 

@iMxmo I have tried a few different curves and all are pretty even, highest stable oc so far is +170MHz core clock and +950MHz memory clock 

[iMxmo]

8 hours ago, jetsonxr6 said:

@iMxmo I have tried a few different curves and all are pretty even, highest stable oc so far is +170MHz core clock and +950MHz memory clock 

Play around with Power Limit if you wish.