[SOLVED] Is it possible to still OC my GPU with voltage and power limit?

[Jmusic88]

Hello,

Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 950 OC Edition (Currently NOT overclocked by me, it is stock)

Using MSI Afterburner OSB and HWINFO64, I notice that I get performance limit power & voltage.

My GPU is maximized even beyond the spec that it shows on the GPU-Z (see image below). GPU-Z states my boost is 1241 Mhz, but in reality I get a maximum of 1352 Mhz. Is this the OEM OC that I am seeing? If so, I wonder why it is not shown by GPU-Z. GPU is at 97+% utilization during benchmarks and gaming.

Questions:

1. If I want to OC my GPU in the future (did not try it since I am not understanding the power & voltage limits), am I still able to or will I be maxed out at 1352 Mhz due to the power & voltage limits I am seeing?

2. If the power & voltage limits are in fact limiting any future OC, do I just increase it? If so, by increments of how much?


Thank you in advance,

 

[tshinhar]

Well that is how gpu boost works, the bost speed you see in gpu-z is the minimum boost frequency.
From there given the gpu has power and thermal headroom, it will boost higher.

To your questions:
1) not necessarily, this is a conservative stock profile you can likely get higher clocks even with the same power and thermal limits

2) overclocking a gpu is very easy and it's completely (you can't kill your gpu even if you try since there is a maximum power limit)
Just set Power and temperature limits to the maximum and increase the core clock offset until you are no longer stable then set it to the maximum stable offset
Do the same to memory offset and your done
No reason not to do that unless you are trying to keep power consumption dowb

 

[Jmusic88]

Uh

Well that is how gpu boost works, the bost speed you see in gpu-z is the minimum boost frequency.
From there given the gpu has power and thermal headroom, it will boost higher.

To your questions:
1) not necessarily, this is a conservative stock profile you can likely get higher clocks even with the same power and thermal limits

2) overclocking a gpu is very easy and it's completely (you can't kill your gpu even if you try since there is a maximum power limit)
Just set Power and temperature limits to the maximum and increase the core clock offset until you are no longer stable then set it to the maximum stable offset
Do the same to memory offset and your done
No reason not to do that unless you are trying to keep power consumption dowb

Awesome thanks for your response! Just wanted to make sure before I play with the settings!