Overclocking

Before I finished up testing on the R9 380 Gaming 2G I had to see how the card would overclock as well. To do this I split the overclocking into three parts, GPU, Memory, and then both together. On each I slowly bumped the overclocks up and documented what happened below. The goal here isn’t to set a world record so I’m not typically changing voltages (if I do I note it). The goal is to be able to compare from card to card how they overclock and also have an idea of what kind of performance increase you will actually see with an overclock. For this card I started out on the GPU at the stock clock to get a baseline. From there I bumped things up until I ran into a drive crash at 1150MHz. From there I tried a few more smaller changes to get our peak overclock of 1130MHz. Next I went through doing the same thing on the memory side. This time around I actually peaked out the software I was overclocking with before running into an issue. Lastly I paired up our GPU and memory overclocks to see if they would run together, sadly I ran into a driver crash the first time. I turned the GPU clock down slightly and gave it a second go successfully. In the end we went from an FPS of 51.74 to 59.87, not a bad increase for free.

GPU Clock Speed Overclocking
GPU Clock Speed Pass/Fail FPS Result Notes
970MHz Pass 51.74 Stock Clock
1050MHz Pass 55.56  
1100MHz Pass 57.84  
1150MHz Fail N/A Driver Crash
1130MHz Pass 59.27  
1140MHz Fail N/A Driver Crash
Memory Clock Offset Overclocking
Memory Clock Speed Pass/Fail FPS Result Notes
5500MHz Pass 51.74 Stock Clock
6000MHz Pass 52.59  
6300MHz Pass 52.62  
6500MHz Pass 52.76  
6700MHz Pass 52.87  
6900MHz Pass 52.99  
7000MHz Pass 53.01 Can’t go any higher in software
GPU and Memory Overclocks Together
GPU Clock Speed Memory Clock Speed FPS Result Notes
1130MHz 7000MHz N/A Driver Crash
1120MHz 7000MHz 59.87  

 

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