Overclocking
Looking at overclocking each card and running it through the same one-hour loop of F1 22 for stability saw some varying results, card to card. Obviously, some of this comes down to the power limits that we spoke about earlier, coupled with cooling solutions, and of course, the quality of the VRMs used on each individual card. For some part of it, you could argue that the silicon lottery comes into play, but in 2022, this doesn’t make as much of a difference card to card, unless you’re going for a card that is known to have binned silicon.
So again, booting up F1 22 for an hour and seeing what kind of figures we were able to achieve and due to the INNO3D card not having any adjustable power limit, we saw very similar figures to what we had at stock, while the FE card from NVIDIA saw the temperatures rise across the board with the most noticeable being the hotspot increasing from 75 degrees to 79, while the memory also increased from 60 degrees to 72, though the fan speed only increased slightly by around 3% which made hardly any difference to the acoustics.
The Palit saw some of the least increases in temperature, only seeing the GPU increase by one degree, the hotspot by 3 degrees and the memory by 2 degrees, though the fan speed did increase by 10%, which only made a 1-decibel difference to the audio.
Also, both the MSI and Gigabyte cards managed to keep things under control, with some pretty small gains in temperatures when overclocked, but the MSI did see the largest jump in fan speed from 1434RPM, up to 1771 RPM which is a whopping 23% increase, which also increased the audible noise from 40 decibels, up to 48.
Gigabyte Gaming OC
INNO3D iCHILL X3
MSI SuprimX
NVIDIA FE
Palit Gamerock
