Overclocking possible and if yes, worth it ?

[Dimitri_V]

I was wondering if i could OC my build but how much and is it worth the performance gains ?

Parts are:

MOBO: Asus Prime X570-P

Ram: Corsair 32GB (2 x 16GB) Vengeance LPX, DDR4 3600MHz, CL18

GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 VENTUS 3X PLUS 10G OC

CPU: Amd Ryzen 5 5600x 

And yes I know the graphics card is factory oc:d

[Hinjima]

3 minutes ago, Dimitri_V said:

I was wondering if i could OC my build but how much and is it worth the performance gains ?

Parts are:

MOBO: Asus Prime X570-P

Ram: Corsair 32GB (2 x 16GB) Vengeance LPX, DDR4 3600MHz, CL18

GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 VENTUS 3X PLUS 10G OC

CPU: Amd Ryzen 5 5600x 

And yes I know the graphics card is factory oc:d

Factory overclocked GPU's barely affect performance over non OC models, if at all.

The factory OC is really small on most OC models.

 

Yes, your system can actually benefit a bit from overclocking!

Many people overclock the 5600x and 3080's.  Dont expect a massive difference in performance but a few FPS increase, most definitely.

Its free performance so for it.

 

I always overclock everything I can.  Been overclocking for over 20 years.

[strange13930]

2 minutes ago, Dimitri_V said:

I was wondering if i could OC my build but how much and is it worth the performance gains ?

Parts are:

MOBO: Asus Prime X570-P

Ram: Corsair 32GB (2 x 16GB) Vengeance LPX, DDR4 3600MHz, CL18

GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 VENTUS 3X PLUS 10G OC

CPU: Amd Ryzen 5 5600x 

And yes I know the graphics card is factory oc:d

the 3080 you can overclock with msi afterburner to get a little more performance.

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, Dimitri_V said:

is it worth the performance gains ?

Nope. What will happen is you get a bit higher boost, for about 10 minutes, then it'll all heat up and you get same or worse performance than stock.

 

Good for "influencer" videos, bad for every day usage.

 

Better undervolt as it basically achieves the same kind of boost, without the heat, so it usually boosts longer, or even indefinitely. 

 

 

[freeagent]

Its worth it. If you cant keep it cool, then no.

[ewitte]

Overclocking on AMD these days is just keeping it cool, possibly doing a lower custom voltage curve.  If you do it manually you can get massive multi-core increases, but single thread suffers.

[Polaria]

8 hours ago, Dimitri_V said:

I was wondering if i could OC my build but how much and is it worth the performance gains ?

Parts are:

MOBO: Asus Prime X570-P

Ram: Corsair 32GB (2 x 16GB) Vengeance LPX, DDR4 3600MHz, CL18

GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 VENTUS 3X PLUS 10G OC

CPU: Amd Ryzen 5 5600x 

And yes I know the graphics card is factory oc:d

What's your CPU cooler and CPU/GPU temps under load? I find it odd that nobody here has asked. If you have no thermal headroom, OCing isn't really viable.

[Dimitri_V]

19 hours ago, Polaria said:

What's your CPU cooler and CPU/GPU temps under load? I find it odd that nobody here has asked. If you have no thermal headroom, OCing isn't really viable.

I'ts an Arctic Liquid Freezer 2 AIO and the CPU is hovering at 65°C

[Polaria]

On 5/20/2025 at 5:17 PM, Dimitri_V said:

I'ts an Arctic Liquid Freezer 2 AIO and the CPU is hovering at 65°C

There's some room there. I'm unfortunately not versed in overclocking AMD CPUs, but there are likely people here that are. You won't be getting insane performance boosts - probably only 5-10% single-threaded, definitely more in multi-thread.

 

A good middle-ground would be seeing if you can bring your all-core turbo close to your single-core turbo before trying to push. After that, a quick Google search says 1.35V and under is safe for the 5600, as long as you're not experiencing insane temps by bringing your voltage up. TPU was able to hit 4.6 GHz (all core? not sure) at that voltage. I would like to say that this is assuming you do it manually, as I'm used to with overclocking on 9th gen Intel. I know PBO exists, and like I said, I don't know fully how it works. In general though - push clocks til unstable, bump voltage, repeat until satisfied with temps & clocks. Make sure to up your power limit.

On 5/19/2025 at 1:54 PM, Mark Kaine said:

Nope. What will happen is you get a bit higher boost, for about 10 minutes, then it'll all heat up and you get same or worse performance than stock.

 

Good for "influencer" videos, bad for every day usage.

 

Better undervolt as it basically achieves the same kind of boost, without the heat, so it usually boosts longer, or even indefinitely. 

 

 

I think that's a bit of a shallow way to look at it. Everyone's silicon is a little different, and everyone's cooling solutions, temps, preferred noise levels, etc are also a little different. Pushing my RX 580 with +80 on the core and +100 on memory & adjusting memory timings nets a 15-20% improvement on games and rarely goes above 75 celsius if I'm not on Furmark, for example. I like the performance bonus, even if it's not much, and even if it's louder, it feels better knowing that I've gotten something extra out of it.

 

That being said, I can say that if you're not "into overclocking," as in you don't get enjoyment out of the act, then it might not be worth it since the raw performance gains on modern hardware aren't a whole lot. And I can agree that undervolting is also an extremely viable option.