Asus Strix GTX 1060 6G, How much I can Overclock it for Maximum Performance?

[nitinvaid20]

I just bought the New GTX 1060 6G Asus Strix How much i can Achive more out of this GPU?
Here are the images for GPU OC i have not done this before

 

[juusos]

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[juusos]

maximum performance varies a lot. depends on how good your individual chip is. and your airflow. you can increase max power and max temp in your oc program, but this will significantly redue life expectancy of your gpu and is not recommended. what do you need the overclock for?

 

[nitinvaid20]

you don't really need to overclock pascal, since it keeps boosting itslef until the temps get too high. if you do want to overclock you should try 1911mhz core and 8000 mhz memory. this is what my gpu runs at without any other tweaks

ohh thats good to know
what are the main difference in OC mode and Gaming?

 

[juusos]

either one has a slightly higher boost clock. don't know whcih one by heart

 

[nitinvaid20]

maximum performance varies a lot. depends on how good your individual chip is. and your airflow. you can increase max power and max temp in your oc program, but this will significantly redue life expectancy of your gpu and is not recommended. what do you need the overclock for?

The Airflow is very good the GPU temp idle is 35'C with no fans running and max it foes to 42 at full load

 

[juusos]

what do you even need the oc for? 4k gaming?

 

[BurgerandChips66]

Some 1060's can hit 2 to 2.1 GHz. But it depends very much on the quality of your chip, and the cooling - as mentioned above.

Also try overclocking your vram, it might help with fps when the core is overclocked.

But in my opinion, you need to benchmark the OC-ed card with games to find the 'sweet spot'. Quite often the extra heat, fan noise and power draw at maximum attainable overclock settings just isn't worth the very slight increase in fps.

 

[RobCrezz]

With respect, Juusos doesnt know what hes talking about. Overclocking absolutly has an effect with Pascal and GPU boost.

First of all, max out the power target, move the memory clock to about 9000, and move the gpu clock up 100mhz, then test for stability. likely youll be able to go even higher on the gpu clock. Most 1060s will allow it to boost over 2000mhz with the right base clock.

 

[juusos]

With respect, Juusos doesnt know what hes talking about. Overclocking absolutly has an effect with Pascal and GPU boost.

First of all, max out the power target, move the memory clock to about 9000, and move the gpu clock up 100mhz, then test for stability. likely youll be able to go even higher on the gpu clock. Most 1060s will allow it to boost over 2000mhz with the right base clock.

Ofcourse i know this, but I myself don't feel the need to overclock pascal due to the high boost frequencies. Besides, maxing out the power target for a full 100mhz increase in core clock is just not worth it imho. But in theory you are right. Have you tried this overclock on a 1060? And if so what where the benchmarks before and after. (Game fps or synthetic bench)

 

[RobCrezz]

With respect, Juusos doesnt know what hes talking about. Overclocking absolutly has an effect with Pascal and GPU boost.

First of all, max out the power target, move the memory clock to about 9000, and move the gpu clock up 100mhz, then test for stability. likely youll be able to go even higher on the gpu clock. Most 1060s will allow it to boost over 2000mhz with the right base clock.

Ofcourse i know this, but I myself don't feel the need to overclock pascal due to the high boost frequencies. Besides, maxing out the power target for a full 100mhz increase in core clock is just not worth it imho. But in theory you are right. Have you tried this overclock on a 1060? And if so what where the benchmarks before and after. (Game fps or synthetic bench)

Yes, I have a 1060 6gb strix. Mine boosts to around 2124mhz, with the vram around 9000. I get around 10-15% performance improvement in FPS over stock.

You can see techpowerups testing here if you want more than my anecdotal evidence:

This is testing the already factory overclocked version, so the increase is slightly less than a stock clocked card (12%). But if you compare against the stock 1060 FE 6gb which gets 85.9fps, vs the overclocked which gets 101.9fps, im sure you can see thats a significant enough boost improvement.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_1060_STRIX_OC/29.html

 

[nitinvaid20]

With respect, Juusos doesnt know what hes talking about. Overclocking absolutly has an effect with Pascal and GPU boost.

First of all, max out the power target, move the memory clock to about 9000, and move the gpu clock up 100mhz, then test for stability. likely youll be able to go even higher on the gpu clock. Most 1060s will allow it to boost over 2000mhz with the right base clock.

Ofcourse i know this, but I myself don't feel the need to overclock pascal due to the high boost frequencies. Besides, maxing out the power target for a full 100mhz increase in core clock is just not worth it imho. But in theory you are right. Have you tried this overclock on a 1060? And if so what where the benchmarks before and after. (Game fps or synthetic bench)

Yes, I have a 1060 6gb strix. Mine boosts to around 2124mhz, with the vram around 9000. I get around 10-15% performance improvement in FPS over stock.

You can see techpowerups testing here if you want more than my anecdotal evidence:

This is testing the already factory overclocked version, so the increase is slightly less than a stock clocked card (12%). But if you compare against the stock 1060 FE 6gb which gets 85.9fps, vs the overclocked which gets 101.9fps, im sure you can see thats a significant enough boost improvement.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_1060_STRIX_OC/29.html

Thanks for your reply
that much increase in performance is enofgh for me

 

[BurgerandChips66]

Guru3D tested a 1060 FE. The OC yielded an extra 10% to 12.5% fps on the games tested.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/geforce-gtx-1060-review,29.html

 

[nitinvaid20]

which software i should use to stress test the GPU?

 

[nitinvaid20]

One more thing idont do the benchmark but i was using the 3d mark steam version and was getting around 4K score is that okay?

With respect, Juusos doesnt know what hes talking about. Overclocking absolutly has an effect with Pascal and GPU boost.

First of all, max out the power target, move the memory clock to about 9000, and move the gpu clock up 100mhz, then test for stability. likely youll be able to go even higher on the gpu clock. Most 1060s will allow it to boost over 2000mhz with the right base clock.

Ofcourse i know this, but I myself don't feel the need to overclock pascal due to the high boost frequencies. Besides, maxing out the power target for a full 100mhz increase in core clock is just not worth it imho. But in theory you are right. Have you tried this overclock on a 1060? And if so what where the benchmarks before and after. (Game fps or synthetic bench)

Yes, I have a 1060 6gb strix. Mine boosts to around 2124mhz, with the vram around 9000. I get around 10-15% performance improvement in FPS over stock.

You can see techpowerups testing here if you want more than my anecdotal evidence:

This is testing the already factory overclocked version, so the increase is slightly less than a stock clocked card (12%). But if you compare against the stock 1060 FE 6gb which gets 85.9fps, vs the overclocked which gets 101.9fps, im sure you can see thats a significant enough boost improvement.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_1060_STRIX_OC/29.html