I have a GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card from overclockers. has anyone overclocked it yet. If so what are your figures and with what software have you overclocked with ? I have Zoltac Firestorm installed and it is easy to overclock but not sure how high to push it
GTX1060 overclocking
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I use MSI Afterburner, seems to be the most popular software for it.
My wifes Palit Dual 1060 will boost to 2100mhz, I don't remember what +mhz offset that is, maybe around +200, when it heat up it drops down to 2050mhz - just GPU Boost 3.0 doing its thing.
So long as you keep your temps in check (under 80c ideally), then you have nothing to worry about. Push it as far as you can until it starts to crash or artefact, then back down 10mhz or so and you're good.
The 1060's GP106 core overclocks very well, you should easily get over 2000mhz
I can also get +500mhz on the memory, again +250 should be easy, and probably more.
My wifes Palit Dual 1060 will boost to 2100mhz, I don't remember what +mhz offset that is, maybe around +200, when it heat up it drops down to 2050mhz - just GPU Boost 3.0 doing its thing.
So long as you keep your temps in check (under 80c ideally), then you have nothing to worry about. Push it as far as you can until it starts to crash or artefact, then back down 10mhz or so and you're good.
The 1060's GP106 core overclocks very well, you should easily get over 2000mhz
I can also get +500mhz on the memory, again +250 should be easy, and probably more.
Out of interest is it really worth overclocking graphics cards nowadays, I.e. in my case I also have a 1060 6GB and if I was to do it - could I somewhat overclock it to perform similar to a 1070 or doesn't it work like that?
The reason I ask is that I've recently delved into 1440p gaming from 1080p, and I've noticed that in the likes of Far Cry 4 I've had to notch the settings down from Ultra to Very High due to a slight drop in FPS. At this stage I'm trying to determine if overclocking my 1060 could have potential gains or whether it'll be more ideal to upgrade to a 1070.
Many thanks - Liam.
The reason I ask is that I've recently delved into 1440p gaming from 1080p, and I've noticed that in the likes of Far Cry 4 I've had to notch the settings down from Ultra to Very High due to a slight drop in FPS. At this stage I'm trying to determine if overclocking my 1060 could have potential gains or whether it'll be more ideal to upgrade to a 1070.
Many thanks - Liam.
You won't be able to get your 1060 to 1070 levels of performance, its just to large of a gap for it to make up unfortunately.
What you can get is free performance at the cost of a little time in finding out whats stable, and probably with a little more heat and noise because of this heat.
As for how much, a few %, maybe around 5%? Depends on the card and situation. The good thing about Pascal cards is GPU Boost 3.0, where the card automatically overclocks itself by boosting above the default clock speed when certain parameters are met, basically thermals. You can manually overclock a little more but like I say, it won't give you a massive amount extra.
At 1440p the GTX1060 is certainly capable, but like you have found out you might have to adjust settings down depending on the game if you want to achieve a certain level of fps, 60 for example.
One thing I personally have done is go for G Sync monitors which help smoothen things out even when the FPS varies.
What you can get is free performance at the cost of a little time in finding out whats stable, and probably with a little more heat and noise because of this heat.
As for how much, a few %, maybe around 5%? Depends on the card and situation. The good thing about Pascal cards is GPU Boost 3.0, where the card automatically overclocks itself by boosting above the default clock speed when certain parameters are met, basically thermals. You can manually overclock a little more but like I say, it won't give you a massive amount extra.
At 1440p the GTX1060 is certainly capable, but like you have found out you might have to adjust settings down depending on the game if you want to achieve a certain level of fps, 60 for example.
One thing I personally have done is go for G Sync monitors which help smoothen things out even when the FPS varies.
I thought as much and that's very useful to know.
It kind of struck me as well that overclocking on these cards may be very limited due to the fact that they are overclocked already at factory too.
G-Sync was something that I was looking into but some of the monitors I had my eye on were out of my range unfortunately. Going back to the 1440p side of things, I must say that as already discovered that the 1060 itself handles 1440p very well indeed from what I've played so far (Far Cry 4 & GTA V), and when set to ultra in Far Cry 4 originally it only sacrifices the performance by 10-15 FPS or so, notching it down to Very High replenishes the FPS just about.
I'll do a bit more research into overclocking my 1060 and see where I can go from there.
Many thanks - Liam.
In many games Ultra offers a very minor increase in visual quality for a quite large impact in FPS, so I certainly wouldn't be too fussed
As for overclocking, it's really quite simple, this guide is very useful:
https://youtu.be/SKWbKCKsWVQ
As for overclocking, it's really quite simple, this guide is very useful:
https://youtu.be/SKWbKCKsWVQ
