Overclocking MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12G GAMING TRIO OC
For overclocking the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12G GAMING TRIO OC, we used MSI’s own Afterburner (ver. 4.6.6 Beta). This is undoubtedly one of the most widely used overclocking software around. Afterburner is easy to use. In this case, we had access to the GPU Boost and memory frequencies as well as the Power limit. Fans could be adjusted if needed. Core voltage and Temperature limits were grayed out. We used our Cyberpunk 2077 manual run-through for testing. The data was logged into GPUZ, and backup checking was done with HardwareInfo64.
Our overclock involved stepwise increases until the card became unstable or did not give any further performance advantage. You can see we pushed the memory frequency all the way to the right. We also pushed the power limit to +12%, the highest it would go. The card remained stable throughout. We were able to take the Boost clock beyond what you see here; however, beyond +350MHz, there was no further gain in performance. The video card froze at +400MHz. There would seem to be a power limitation in effect at the maximum settings. The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12G GAMING TRIO OC was perfectly stable at the final settings. The video card was cool, and fans were set on “Auto” throughout. The video card was essentially silent. Our Final Settings: Boost Clock +350MHz/2935MHz Memory Frequency +250MHz/32Gb/s.
The graph above shows our results in real-time gaming. The blue line represents the default card out-of-the-box with its factory overclock of 2610Mhz. One can see the Boost clock is well above that at an average of 2,834MHz or 8% over the reference Boost. The orange line is our achieved overclock. The average Boost overclocked is 3144MHz. This value is 10% over the real-time Boost. That’s pretty darn good right there.
All in all, we were able to achieve a Boost clock 20% over the NVIDIA reference Boost clock and 10% over the real-time factory overclock out-of-the-box. We will have to see how that correlates with real-time gaming results, but all in all, this card is a pretty good overclocker. The bonus is the cooling is superb, and the fans remained silent. We did not need to adjust the fan cycle from default.
