PNY RTX 3060 XLR8 Gaming Review

1. Introduction2. PNY RTX 3060 XLR8 Gaming3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Assassin's Creed Valhalla7. Control8. Cyberpunk 20779. Dirt 510. The Division 211. F1 202012. Gears 513. Hitman 314. Metro Exodus15. Red Dead Redemption 216. Total War Saga: Troy17. Watch Dogs: Legion18. Performance Summary (12 Game Average)19. Clock Speed20. Temperatures21. Acoustics22. Noise-Normalised Temperatures23. Power Consumption24. Overclocking25. Closing Thoughts26. View All Pages

For manual overclocking, we used MSI Afterburner. We maximised the power target (+105%) and temperature slider (90C), before adding 260MHz to the GPU core and 950MHz to the memory.

This saw average clock speed increase from 1816MHz to 2059MHz, a hefty 13% boost to operating frequency.

This extra frequency resulted in performance gains of between 9-12% in the titles we re-tested at 1080p.

Power only increased by 10W, or 6%, so the overclock proved well worth it.

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