Question Overclocking my RTX 4070 Ti Super ?

[Runner89]

Hello everyone. I am pretty new to overclocking so please bare with me. I wanted to overclock my "Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti Super Windforce OC" and looked up a few tutorials and guides. I use MSI Afterburner and tested for stability playing Cyberpunk. I determined that everything above 200Mhz core clock leads to crashes so I set it to +200 as the optimal value.

My doubts are in regards to the memory clock though. I am able to set it to +2000Mhz without crashing but somehow it seems too good to be true. People in other forums were saying that there is no way that my GPU can run stable at +2000Mhz memory clock and that there is probably some error-correction going on which in turn limits my performance.

How can I check if the GPU is error-correcting or not? Do I have to just keep running a stress test like Heaven or Furmark and watch for FPS drops? Is it enough to just look at the benchamark scores and as soon as they decrease I know that there is error correction going on? Thanks for your help.

 

[ridwan123]

Better on your rebar for more fps rather than overclocking

 

[bill001g]

You have to remember the actual factory that makes the GPU chips tests these for overclock ability and sell the ones that can actually overclock consistently for more money to the manufacture of the video cards. The video card manufactures do similar and sell cards with higher factory clock rates for more money.

By the time the end consumer gets his hands on stuff almost everything that can really be overclocked has been taken. Overclocking video cards is almost a waste of time. You generally can only get a tiny difference in performance and it might not be stable in all conditions.

Sometimes you get lucky and you can get a little overclock other times it will test fine in every benchmark you find but it will randomly crash. You never really know since a driver update may make it unstable again.

Long gone are the days when you could get very large gains by overclocking things in your computer.

 

[Runner89]

@bill001g I don't really agree with that. My overclock granted me easily about 10% performance increase which is worth it to me. I am just trying to figure out at which point error correcting kicks in, if at all.