Should I consider overclocking?
Should I consider overclocking?
I think at this point we should stop calling it "overclocking." Yes the companies list specs such as "base clock speed" and "boost clock speed", but the reality is every video card since give or take 2016 basically increases the clock speed until it hits a limit. That limit is what's going to prevent the card from clocking higher. And even then, the limits on most cards are already generous anyway, and pushing it further is akin to what I'd call activating
War Emergency Power
(if you don't know what that is, look at the link). So there's no baseline clock speed anymore, it's just whatever the card thinks it can get away with.
Even the so-called "OC" thing that most video card tweakers like MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision do isn't actually adjusting any clock speed limits. It's
undervolting
the video card in the sense that it's going to apply less voltage for a given clock speed.
No point in OC now. The fps difference isn't much better than margin of error, and can easily end up lowering overall performance, as seen with Ryzen single core performance dropping as multi-core performance boosted or locking Intel cores at a value which ends up lower than single core boosts and uses a ton of power doing exactly nothing.
With gpus, even a 10% performance boost is still only 3-5fps at best, which you can't see anyway, so no point in pushing the card harder for a gain that's essentially worthless.