Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Overclocking Guide

[Julio Franco]

Today we're going to be diving a little deeper into overclocking the new GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080, covering how to overclock to higher typical clock speeds, test performance and power consumption. Also compare Nvidia's new Scanner API to manual overclocking.

Read the full article here.

https://www.techspot.com/article/1704-geforce-rtx-2080-overclocking/

 

[Thannos]

For the first set of charts it looks like you have them switched. Currently you have the standard 2080 chart first when I think you meant to have the Ti version first.

 

[alabama man]

So even 2080Ti can't manage 60fps minimum, what a joke. Good that I can use the money I saved for new GPU and monitor on audio equipment, maybe next gen.....

 

[hahahanoobs]

So even 2080Ti can't manage 60fps minimum, what a joke. Good that I can use the money I saved for new GPU and monitor on audio equipment, maybe next gen.....

There could be one graphic setting you could reduce or turn off that you wouldn't even notice in-game to get 60. These are also games that people have already been playing, and unless you're playing every new game that comes out, you may never see your games with sub 60fps minimums.

Do what you want though. It's your money.

 

[Manuel Diego]

Does the Scanner app work for Pascal cards?

 

[ddferrari]

Does the Scanner app work for Pascal cards?

Not yet, according to Nvidia, but eventually it will.

 

[thews86]

The GPU market sucks right now, AMD and Nvidia. Looks like I will just get another 980ti for $200 so I can SLI.

 

[GiovanniBP]

So even 2080Ti can't manage 60fps minimum, what a joke. Good that I can use the money I saved for new GPU and monitor on audio equipment, maybe next gen.....

The 2080 Ti is actually the first card to ever hit 60FPS AVERAGE on every single game at 4K w/ maxed-out settings (even though a couple games still require the card to be OCed for that to happen).

We are still two generations or so away from having a 60FPS minimum at these conditions. There are games on which a 2080 Ti at stock speeds drops as low as 38FPS in some areas.

Even if we consider that overclocking increases these frame rates a little, we are still gonna need an almost 50% performance gain to hit that 60FPS minimum mark.

The promise of "4K @60FPS" has been used in marketing for long, but strictly speaking, having a consistent 60FPS gameplay at 4K on every single part of every single game with every single setting maxed-out is still undoable to this day. (And a few years to come). Regardless of how much you spend on your machine. SLI doesn't solve the problem either.

 

[Adventure Media]

I was able to take my EVGA RTX 2080 Gaming XC to 2205MHz on the core and +930MHz on the GDDR6 with a max temp of 37° (ambient around 22°) using an EK water block and two 420mm radiators (my CPU is in the same loop). However, I have to significantly reduce this overclock (down to about 2075MHz on the core) in Battlefield V if I enable ray tracing. Apparently, the RT cores don't like that much of an OC. I had to use Conductonaut as the thermal paste to get temps that low. Using Kryonaut my max temp was 43° and my max stable OC was 2170MHz on the core IIRC. I also had to use MSI Afterburner to create a custom power curve to OC my card as the EVGA Precision X1 utility was unstable and kept crashing. I did not do the power shunt mod on this card as it was unnecessary. Voltage was the limiting factor for my OC, not power limit. Just for informational purposes, my CPU is an 8700K (delided with liquid metal) and clocked at 5.3GHz for my everyday OC and 5.5GHZ when benchmarking. Overall system performance in games (other than Battlefield V with RTX on) is about on par with a manually overclocked air-cooled RTX 2080 Ti or Titan V. There is a lot of potential in these cards if you custom water cool them, there would be even more if NVIDA would allow the board partners to release a vBIOS giving us access to more aggressive voltage curves. I hope to get my hands on an RTX 2080 Ti after we get through the holidays to see how far I can take one of those. I hope some of y'all find this info useful if you're trying to decide to water cool your card or not. BTW, I'm currently #39 (user babarnette) on the Superposition leaderboards (1080p High) if you want to see how the RTX 2080 stacks up with good cooling and a little tweaking in MSI Afterburner: https://benchmark.unigine.com/leaderboards/superposition/1.0/1080p-high/single-gpu/page-1