Does anyone actually use the AVX offset?

[Apepa]

I'm building up the OC on my 8350k. I have it at 4.5Ghz at the  moment, using Prime95 for stress testing. Since Prime95 runs AVX instructions by default, I've kept the AVX offset at 0 or it would reduce my clocks while testing. Thinking ahead, I'm not sure if I'm going to bother going beyond my AVX max.

 

I know people can achieve higher clocks with the AVX offset at 1-3, but an offset of 1 is only a 100 Mhz gain, which you still need to stress test, and which you lose as soon as the CPU hits an AVX instruction.

 

Looking for opinions ?

[porina]

I've used it for testing. For example, I have an i3-8350k that runs non-AVX at 5.0 GHz, but I have to drop it to 4.7 GHz for P95. Similarly on a 7800X, that runs depending on how hard I push the cooling to 4.9 non-AVX, but my long term P95 setting is 4.3 - note it will run P95 higher than that, but I choose to drop it lower to help further with cooling. There's also a separate AVX-512 offset I've yet to play with in detail.

[TrigrH]

You use AVX when you are actually pushing the chip.

[Apepa]

27 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

You use AVX when you are actually pushing the chip.

Yeah, but what I'm interested in is whether anyone sees a point pushing for a further non-AVX OC. There aren't that many applications that use AVX afterall

[TrigrH]

2 minutes ago, Apepa said:

Yeah, but what I'm interested in is whether anyone sees a point pushing for a further non-AVX OC. There aren't that many applications that use AVX afterall

You just answered your own question.

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I'm interested in is whether anyone sees a point pushing for a further non-AVX OC

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There aren't that many applications that use AVX afterall

 

Unless you don't understand that the offset lowers AVX for better stability not increases it.