Nvidia RTX 3060 Review ft. Gigabyte Gaming OC

We had good success overclocking the GPU. Using MSI Afterburner, we maximised the power slider (at 124%) and temperature slider, while our best overclock saw a +160MHz GPU offset, and a +500MHz memory offset. We were able to push higher on the memory – up to 800MHz was stable – but actually resulted in worse performance.

This overclock saw our real-world average clock speed increase from 1922MHz to 2090MHz. The GPU would frequently bounce above 2100MHz, which is always good to see.

This overclock netted us an extra 7% performance in F1 2020, but an 8% gain in Gears 5, and then a 6% gain in Watch Dogs: Legion. Like other Ampere GPUs, we're not talking massive gains, but it's decent.

Power draw, meanwhile, rose to 188W, an increase of 8%.

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