Overclocking MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G VANGUARD SOC
To overclock the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC video card, we utilized the latest Beta version of MSI Afterburner which is version 4.6.6 Beta5 which includes support for GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. In this software, we can increase the Power Limit, Temp Limit, Fan Speed, Core Frequency, Memory Clock frequency, and GPU Voltage. It also has monitoring software and profile settings.
Highest Stable Overclock
On the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC, we were able to increase the Power Limit very far, up 16% from 100% to 116% total TDP. That is a large amount of headroom, and considering the fact that we found that the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC operates at a lower default GPU Voltage than we have seen in another RTX 5070 Ti, means that the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC has incredible power headroom for overclocking adventures. The cooling is done so well on the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC that we also did not have to increase the fan speed, we left it on automatic for all of our overclock testing.
We did try GPU Core Voltage increases, but ultimately it didn’t help that much, and in fact, caused some other weird bugs. For example, there were times we would enable it, and whenever we set the Core Frequency it would cause the actual in-game frequency to cap out at a lower frequency, only a complete system shutdown would resolve the issue. It could be a preventative protection measure. When we did get it working, (and it did increase the Voltage for a fact), it only provided maybe 20MHz higher frequency at best, so we just didn’t feel it was necessary to obtain the very high overclock we achieved.
Our final overclock was with the Core Frequency set to +410, and you’ll see what that translates to in terms of frequency below. On the memory side of things, we could literally max out the slider at +2000 which brought the memory speed from 28Gbps up to 32Gbps easy! That increased the bandwidth from 896 GB/s up to 1024 GB/s of memory bandwidth, breaking the 1TB/s barrier!
The default factory overclocked clock speed of the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC is set to a GPU Boost clock of 2588MHz out-of-the-box for this SOC version. The reference NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU Boost clock is 2452MHz. Thanks to NVIDIA GPU Boost, the thermal properties of the video card, and power delivery, the actual boost clock while gaming will be higher.
The blue line above shows the default clock speed we are getting while gaming on the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC. You can see that it is very consistent around 2820MHz while gaming, shooting well over the 2588MHz it is set at, and way way over the 2452MHz of the reference clock. The exact average is in fact 2820MHz, therefore that is our base default clock speed, any clock speed over that will be our overclock.
The orange line represents our highest overclock on the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC set with +410 in MSI Afterburner. Technically, in GPU-Z this reads as 2998MHz. As you can see, however, the actual frequency we get while gaming is as high as above 3220MHz! The peak we experienced was 3232MHz and the lowest was 3220MHz. The average is: 3227MHz, therefore our final stable overclock is 3227MHz and that means it is a 14% GPU Frequency increase from overclock, or 407MHz! That is quite a good overclock, and that means excellent performance from overclocking.
The final overclock was 3227MHz/32Gbps (GPU/Mem).
