Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Overclocking Guide > Performance Results

Operation Results

Let'southward accept a look at how overclocking improved the operation of the 2080 Ti and 2080, starting with a comparison of the Scanner API to our manual overclock.

For the 2080 Ti, the Scanner provided a 7% performance improvement over the FE clocks, whereas our manual overclock produced a 12% improvement. Yet the Scanner does not overclock the memory, and for those looking for a quick overclock process, i easy trick might be to use a fairly conservative retentivity overclock for simplicity'due south sake, something like +600 MHz.

Going with that changes the results and makes the Scanner + Retention overclock xi% faster than the Atomic number 26 clocks, but again the total manual overclock provides a slightly meliorate result, a further one.five percent points.

For the 2080, information technology was a like story. The Scanner gave us a four% performance improvement over the Atomic number 26 clocks, whereas our manual overclock boosted performance by viii%. Going with a Scanner + memory overclock provided 7% more performance than the Iron clocks.

We've shown that our manual overclock is slightly superior to the results with the OC scanner, now let's accept a wait at a few more games to see how the overclock compares to both stock and Founders Edition functioning.

From those five games, including Shadow of the Tomb Raider that we looked at earlier, for the 2080 Ti nosotros achieved a performance comeback of 14% on boilerplate compared to the stock clocks, and x% compared to the Founders Edition clocks. For the RTX 2080 those margins were a piffling narrower: eleven% over stock clocks and 9% over Founders Edition.

We're pretty much running into a power limit here, looking at the design of the power delivery organisation on the FE cards at that place might be a bit more than headroom available if Nvidia properly unlocked voltage controls, but this is every bit good equally we're getting from what we can configure at the moment.

We should annotation that Nvidia do appear to exist binning their 2080 Ti GPUs. Graphics cards shipped with stock clocks use one SKU, while those with factory OCs use a different, potentially binned SKU. This means that factory OC cards should overclock better than their non-OC alternatives.

In terms of temperatures and fan speeds, what Steve constitute in his initial review of the cards is spot on what I achieved on my test bench: cadre temperatures increase from 76C under load with the Founders Edition clocks, to 81C when overclocked, for both cards. That'south a bit below the cards' native 84C temperature limit and well below the increased 88C limit, so it's pretty clear that's not a limiting factor for performance.

Fan speeds too, 2060 RPM with the Atomic number 26 clocks, 2290 RPM when overclocked for the 2080 Ti and 2180 RPM for the 2080, using the default auto fan speed. And so a slight increase at that place but no divergence to the sound contour, the card is pretty quiet while overclocked. Also, both the racket output and temperatures will be unlike with board partner models.

And if you're wondering about power consumption? Well there wasn't a lot of divergence in load power depict between the default and Founders Edition clocks, though that shouldn't exist a huge surprise considering the FE clocks are only about iii% faster. Only when overclocked, power draw increases by effectually 13 to 15% on average for both cards compared to what the Atomic number 26 clocks depict, so that'southward a typical result considering the performance improvements.

RTX 2080 Ti Clock Speeds

RTX 2080 Clock Speeds

If you're wondering about the actual clock speeds I achieved with the 2080 Ti, I was averaging effectually 1680 MHz in Shadow of the Tomb Raider with the stock clocks, 1770 MHz with the Atomic number 26 clocks, and 1980 MHz when overclocked, with a superlative around 2100 MHz.

For the 2080, I was averaging around 1770 MHz with the stock clocks, 1865 MHz with the FE clocks, and 1990 MHz when overclocked, with a peak effectually 2022 MHz.

I too tried overclocking with the fan set to 100%, which dropped temperatures by 20C, and only got around 30 to 50 MHz more than out of either carte du jour, and that was purely from GPU Boost; irresolute the clock kickoff resulted in instability. Running the fans at 100% resulted in less than a 1% boost to functioning over our transmission OC with the fans on automobile, and of class, the menu is much louder at 100% and then it's not worth it. However, those who install liquid coolers on the card might be able to eek out a bit of actress performance, simply not that much.

That wraps up our look into RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 overclocking. With the cards nosotros have on hand there is some actress performance to squeeze out and information technology'll exist interesting to see if anything more tin can be gained from additional tweaks, peculiarly special mods to increase voltage.

For regular users though, effectually a 10% increase over FE cards is expected, with manual overclocking notwithstanding being the go-to option, though Nvidia's Scanner API is quite handy for those that want to avoid manual tweaking.