Gigabyte RTX 3070 Gaming OC Review

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte RTX 3070 Gaming OC3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark Port Royal6. Control7. Death Stranding8. The Division 29. Far Cry New Dawn10. Gears 511. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint12. Metro Exodus13. Middle Earth: Shadow of War14. Red Dead Redemption 215. Shadow of the Tomb Raider16. Total War Saga: Troy17. Performance Summary (11 Game Average)18. Cost Per Frame Analysis19. Clock Speed20. Temperatures21. Acoustics22. Power Consumption23. Performance Per Watt24. Overclocking25. Closing Thoughts26. View All Pages

For manual overclocking, as Gigabyte has already pushed the power limit to 270W, there is no scope to push it further in MSI Afterburner. However, we were still able to add 105MHz to the GPU core, and 1300MHz to the Samsung GDDR6 memory, bringing total speeds up to 16.6Gbps.

This overclock netted us gains of between 6-9% in the games we re-tested. These increases may not be as big as the Gaming X Trio, which improved between 9-11%, but the Gaming OC is coming from a higher starting point, so overall headroom is more limited.

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