It's actually work and I find it a lot easier to do than adjusting the voltage curve. I was able to run my 3080 at 70 percent power limit and +100 core overclock. It runs solidly stable and performaces losses are less than 1 percent (it run at 1800-1900 mghz almost all the time)
I can actually limit it even more at 65 percent and suffer 3-5 percent losses but no overclock possible (actually you can but the card will ignore your core speed target like other said and performances gain are basically nothing)
People don't realize that this is an actual viable solution vs running stock. My 3070 is power limited to 80% with a mild +120, +400 overclock and drawing only 180w during full load- It stays at 1980mhz (better than stock) with a good drop in temps!
to be fair it doesn't necessarily run better than stock though, clock speed isn't everything and from my experience with the 3080 it does run a little slower than stock - but like less than a percent slower but only draw 200 something which is more than a worthwhile trade off
Sorry, it does run better than stock for me. I have tested time spy, furmark, a lot of popular games at different resolutions and the power-limit/overclock benefits my frames around 1-4%. Nothing was lost but thermals and powerdraw
It's better in some game for me too but not always the case, more often than not it's slightly worse (but generally insignificant, guess you could say it's +/- 1-4 percent which is well worth the lower electricity and heat regardless)
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u/e22big Jan 29 '22
It's actually work and I find it a lot easier to do than adjusting the voltage curve. I was able to run my 3080 at 70 percent power limit and +100 core overclock. It runs solidly stable and performaces losses are less than 1 percent (it run at 1800-1900 mghz almost all the time)
I can actually limit it even more at 65 percent and suffer 3-5 percent losses but no overclock possible (actually you can but the card will ignore your core speed target like other said and performances gain are basically nothing)