[SOLVED] Does overclocking drain GPUs life?

ineedram1234

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1)It'll become obsolete before that happens.
2)There's nothing to gain from that anymore, because 1: the gpus do most of the overclocking themselves(notice how they boost way higher than the base?) and 2: if one purchases an aftermarket model, it might have a 2% core clock factory OC on top of that.


Take those UBM metrics with a grain of salt. Gpu OC demands some more power, and the board power limits are already conservative on Nvidia's modern gpus. You can yield lower boost averages, because the gpu is now running into its board power limit more frequently.
It won't be anywhere close to that 20% gap in practice.

over the past few days the benchmarks have gotten worse
Because people are constantly...

Phaaze88

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Topic question:
1)It'll become obsolete before that happens.
2)There's nothing to gain from that anymore, because 1: the gpus do most of the overclocking themselves(notice how they boost way higher than the base?) and 2: if one purchases an aftermarket model, it might have a 2% core clock factory OC on top of that.


Take those UBM metrics with a grain of salt. Gpu OC demands some more power, and the board power limits are already conservative on Nvidia's modern gpus. You can yield lower boost averages, because the gpu is now running into its board power limit more frequently.
It won't be anywhere close to that 20% gap in practice.

over the past few days the benchmarks have gotten worse
Because people are constantly benchmarking their PCs, and skewing the averages. There's no 'stock' 3070 to compare to, because it doesn't exist; parts are being benched under all kinds of conditions. Ignore those numbers for the most part.
As long as you're satisfied with the gpu's performance in actual games, that's all that matters.
UBM has its uses, but measuring performance in general isn't one of them.
 
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