With the Core Clock set at +170 it results in the overclock shown above. At 16.4GHz the memory bandwidth increased to 262GB/s from the default of 224GB/s. We also managed to push the memory up +1200 which set the memory at 2050MHz (16.4GHz) versus 1750MHz (14GHz) default. We could not adjust Core Voltage, but that wasn’t the limit of the card. We also maxed out the fan speed and managed to push the Core Clock up +170 in Afterburner. In MSI Afterburner we can increase the Power Limit on the MSI GeForce RTX 3050 GAMING X by 7% from 100 to 107. This is our highest stable overclock shown below. To overclock the MSI GeForce RTX 3050 GAMING X we are using the manufacturer-provided overclocking software. It seems to be running between 1965MHz-1985MHz while gaming. Due to GPU Boost, the frequency is running well above that while gaming. The MSI GeForce RTX 3050 GAMING X has a factory overclock of 1845MHz set by MSI, this is represented by the green line on the graph. We also record GPU-Z sensor data to look at GPU temperature, Voltage, and Power. We use Cyberpunk 2077 for this with a very long manual run-through at “Ultra” settings. To do this we will record the GPU clock frequency over time while playing a game. We need to find out what it actually runs at, so we can compare the benefit of overclocking.

Typically, GPUs today can exceed the “Boost Clock” dynamically.

NVIDIA has GPU Boost, and AMD has its Game Clock and Boost Clock quoted frequencies. With both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs today, the GPU frequency is dynamic.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Game of the Year Editionīefore we find the highest stable overclock, we need to find out what the default GPU clock speed of the video card is first.

Overclocking MSI GeForce RTX 3050 GAMING X.

Msi afterburner rtx 3060 laptop