Overclocking

AMD’s own Radeon WattMan utility works well for overclocking, so we used that for this card. Since we’re interested in peak performance, we set a 150 percent power limit and 85°C target temperature while boosting the fan curve a bit (albeit not to unreasonable levels).

With these settings, we were able to add 6.5 percent to the boost clock, giving us a new speed of 1,692MHz according to GPU-Z. We were not able to add any extra voltage, so this was as far as we took the GPU.

Meanwhile, the memory was happy at 850MHz, an overclock again just above six percent.