Overclocking
After looking at various X3-based cards, we know what to expect from the looks. While some users may want the flashing lights that some more premium models come with, others, especially given the price premium we’ve seen on the RTX 50 series, simply want a functional card that gives them the gaming performance expected for a reasonable price, while still providing some added extras, in terms of a strong cooler and overclocking headroom. This brings me to see how far this card can be pushed.
Here, as we’ve seen before, there’s no extra headroom in the power limit, as other cards from other brands have, though in our experience, it hasn’t affected the end result of overclocking, so isn’t a deal-breaker. That aside, as with other RTX 50 series cards, we were able to push our memory by 375MHz, or 3000MHz Effective, which is the enforced limit set by NVIDIA. This brought our memory speed up from the 1750MHz stock speed to 2125MHz, while our core clock was increased by a very healthy 460MHz, now sitting with a boost clock of 2912MHz.
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