Overclocking:
As far as overclocking is concerned, we were very disappointed with our copy of the Gigabyte RTX 4060 WindForce OC, as it didn’t offer the option of increasing the power limit beyond 100. So what about our ROG RTX 4060 Strix OC Edition? To overclock our sample, we downloaded the latest version of our in-house software: GPU Tweak III. We’ll be back shortly with a full article dedicated to this software.
The overclocking software for your graphics card GPU Tweak III offers four profiles for our ROG RTX 4060 Strix OC Edition. First of all, the default OC mode, which increases the power consumption limit by 10 t and raises the boost frequency from 2670 to 2700 MHz.
The third profile is a silent mode where the Boost frequency is reduced by 30 MHz and the power consumption limit is lowered from 100 to 90. The idea, of course, is to reduce noise pollution.
Finally, the manual mode we’re going to use to try and overclock this ROG RTX 4060 Strix OC Edition. First step: we’ll see what gain we have on the power consumption limit. Our sample allows us to go from 100% to 125%. We’ll be looking for maximum performance, but keeping the fans in AUTO mode, as the cooling system is proving to be ultra-efficient.
Manual overclocking:
To test our overclocking, we’ll first concentrate on the Time Spy benchmark. Let’s get started! We keep the fans in AUTO mode, raise the power limit to the maximum, i.e. 125t, and off we go! Initially, we only push the GPU frequency in 50 MHz increments until the benchmark stops running. Once the GPU frequency is stable, we move on to increasing the memory frequency.
By default, at stock frequencies, our ROG RTX 4060 Strix OC Edition achieves an overall score of 11910 points and 11229 points for the GPU score. The boost frequency reaches a maximum of 2835 MHz MHz, with the GPU temperature rising to 56.7°C.
In the end, I was able to push the Boost frequency to 3015 MHz and the memory to 2300 MHz. This allows us to pick up a few points. The limit is around 3040 MHz, and if the card goes any higher, the benchmark automatically crashes. The overall score rises to 12473 points and the GPU score to 11817 points (5.2%). We tested this overclocking under Cyberpunk 2077 with gains of 2.5 n rasterization and 6.5 n Ray Tracing. The results are far from spectacular.
