Overclocking the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE Stock Clock Speeds
To get a sense for our baseline performance, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE has a stock base clock of 1350MHz, a stock boost clock of 1635MHz and operates its memory at 14GHz GDDR6. We pulled out Battlefield V and sat down for a gaming session and recorded the actual GPU clock to run at about 1860MHz with the occasional dip down to 1845MHz as we played. This represents a fairly impressive 13.8% gain over the boost clock promised by its specifications.
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE Overclocked Speeds
We overclocked the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE by dialing up the power limit, bumping the voltage to +25 mV and the fans up to 100% and then began increasing the GPU clock. We found that a +150 offset worked fairly well but we would still experience the occasional crash while gaming so we backed off 5MHz at a time until we were stable at a +135MHz offset. We then started increasing the memory speeds and were able to find an additional 2000MHz of GDDR6 speed to bring us to a 16GHz GDDR6 rate. After finding the highest stable configuration, we backed off the fans a bit to bring down the noise level and still maintained stability and temperatures lower than the stock configuration, leaving our fans set at 80%.
After a few gaming sessions at our maximum stable overclock, we measured the actual GPU clocks within Battlefield V over the course of five minutes to see how the boost clocks were working. It initially started at 2055MHz but quickly stepped down to 2010MHz after the first minute of gaming and stayed locked on that clock for the duration of our session. This is an additional 8% higher than the stock boost clock that we measured and an extra 14.3% gain on the memory. While these may not seem like large gains over the Founders Edition out of the box performance, they represent a huge gain over the reference 2080 Ti specifications. It seems to us that the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE has already had most of its performance tuned in by NVIDIA at the factory.
