Intermediate overclocking (15 min)
Intermediate overclocking of your RTX: safe and powerful (15min)
Now we’re looking for a bigger performance boost, using exactly the same steps as for the previous profile.
Open the CURVE EDITOR window in the bottom left-hand corner of MSI Afterburner. Hold down SHIFT and LEFT-CLICK on the point above 1050 mV. We’ll drag it up to 180 Mhz. RELEASE ALL.
Now press SHIFT again and LEFT-CLICK just to the right of the point you’ve just moved (you mustn’t click on a point). By holding SHIFT LEFT CLICK you have selected all the points on the right of the graph. Release SHIFT and CLICK. Now LEFT CLICK on any point within the selected area (to the right of the 1050 mV point) and pull it down to 0.
Validate your curve with the button on the right of the diskette in the main menu.
Set your POWER LIMIT to maximum. The same goes for TEMP LIMIT, and in MEMORY CLOCK type 1000.
Re-validate your settings with the icon on the right of the diskette.
Now it’s time to save the profile by clicking the DISKETTE and then the “2” on the right of the menu.
Now you should run a benchmark program like OCCT for 10 minutes on the Stability test 3D Standard.
The results:
Performance gains:
99.71 FPS or 5.38% on Borderlands 3.
85.893 FPS or 5.05% on Metro Exodus.
123.36 FPS or 8.26% on Cyberpunk 2077.
Stock | Easy | Intermediate | Max | ||
Borderlands 3 | FPS Medium | 94.62 | 95.8 | 99.71 | ? |
1.25% | 5.38% | ? | |||
Metro Exodus | Average FPS | 81.76 | 83.04 | 85.89 | ? |
1.57% | 5.05% | ? | |||
Cyberpunk 2077 | Average FPS | 113.95 | 117.38 | 123.36 | ? |
3.01% | 8.26% | ? |
We’ve got a big perf gain here that we’ve been able to maintain for hours on our Tweak League config.
Be careful, if your PC crashes in game, go back to PROFILE 1. Not all graphics cards are created equal, it’s the silicon lottery.