Overclocking

Gigabyte allows you to apply a whopping 130 percent limit to this card, although GPU-Z suggests that 110 percent is the maximum it’ll ever use regardless, which is around 240W. Still, that’s a very substantial uplift over the 175W reference clock, and given how power-limited Turing is when overclocking, it’s great that Gigabyte is unlocking so much potential on this card. If you luck out and get a chip that overclocks well, a card like this will let you push it higher than the more restricted Founders Edition and MSI Gaming X.

With the maximum power limit applied (and the maximum temperature limit of 88°C), we added another 125MHz to the core. This saw sustained boosting of just over 2,055MHz, which is a great result. We also got the memory to 16.2Gbps, an overclock of ~16 percent.

Below you can see how this compared to other RTX 2060 Supers that we overclocked, but always bear in mind that we are basing results off of individual review units. It’s always possible that cards we receive are pre-selected for being good overclockers, but either way the results should never be taken as representative, and we make no guarantees about the overclocking potential of any one card. This testing is mainly done as a point of interest and to ascertain if a card has any specific and obvious limitations.