GPU Undervolting Guide for RTX 3080 / 3090 | UP TO 100 WATTS LESS POWER

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GPU Undervolting Guide for RTX 3080 / 3090 | UP TO 100 WATTS LESS POWER
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[@jaleel.4239]

even after 3 years, it still works - Thank u :] my 3090TI was somewhere close to 80C while gaming, now its 62-65C hot :] appreciate it!

[@hypnofba]

It not only runs smoother, but it also kills the coil whine (almost) completly! Finally my graphics card sounds healthy

[@djbneozen]

Same. coil whine is gone on my 3080

[@SpYBukkit]

Can someone help me with that for my 3080ti?

[@inceptionsd]

I have zero coil whine on my gigabyte 3080 oc.

[@niftypixels]

This was a game changer for my 3080 FE -- Using RDR2 Benchmarks I get 111.22 avg FPS using 316w max at stock settings, using your settings I get 110.24 avg FPS using 212w -- absolutely amazing, memory temps never went above 78 (they hit 92 at stock). I've tried a LOT of different undervolts and this is by far the best! --- It's Worth Noting for Others -- You will not see the power draw difference using benchmarking software. I didn't realize this for a long time and kept wondering why my settings weren't making a difference. Use a real game (I used RDR2 and Tiny Tina's Benchmarks) or something like Heavens Benchmark or Superposition to get more accurate information, 3DMark will push it over 300w every time regardless of settings. At my current kWh cost that'll save me $18-21/yr with casual use, not a lot to some, but I'll gladly keep that money in my pocket!

[@GetaLifeMan1234]

THANK YOU! The coil whine on my MSI 3080 was driving me crazy when I was doing 3d work. This dropped the noise down considerably.

[@acid1787]

Doesn't make any difference... you are just forcing your GPU to run at lower clock speed at higher voltage.

[@OrchiiGamingmiro]

@@acid1787 it will make a diff for sure because you're consuming less power = less coil whine

[@acid1787]

@@OrchiiGamingmiro Gpus run at a fixed voltage even at idle. Mostly they run around 600-700mv. So your clock speed doesn't matter. And if you undervolt below that fixed voltage your gpu will crash. Mine runs at 139mhz idle at 625mv. Same voltage applies when I play games that are less graphics intensive an clock speed usually sit around 800-900mhz.

[@OrchiiGamingmiro]

@@acid1787 am talking about Coil whine... It's obvious that when you undervolting you gpu consume less power at full load no cap fps, so less coin whine...for me 3060ti usually consume 200 watt at 1950mhz on 1.01 v, I undervolted it to 0.91 v with the same clock 1950mhz at 180 watt, and I experience less Coil whine... Less hit less fan speed, just be smart about the way you edit your curve. If the game that you play doesn't utilize enough your gpu no need to touch anything just cap fps to get rid of Coil whine. And about lower voltage, power = current x voltage, so if you put your gpu at 0.9 v while it's consuming 20 watt at idle your current is to low to introduce any hit or Coil whine. I hope I answered everything.

[@-asdasd866]

many thanks dude,you help me a lot with this video. i buy an rtx 3080 msi ventus it was really crazy loud and 80degrees hot my pc was ready to burn,but with youre giude i manage to get my rtx to 71degrees. no loud fans more no crazy 80degrees and fps is a bit higher now thanks very much my dude

[@xXDc14Xx]

I got the same dude and I know how it feels... The video worked for me too =D

[@barthamellow1138]

those temps are narly lol should look into better case airflow

[@KalebSDay]

@@barthamellow1138 3080's can just be hot and hit the 80s sadly. Had a similar issue before undervolting to 847~ 1800(actually runs 1815 in games). Most games stay under 70c, have not seen it go over low 70s in any scenario since. Maye just be our GPU's cooling as well, at least the performance works and is not noisy when undervolted :)

[@captnsnafu]

Thanks a lot ! My setup was a bit warm to my taste, I litterally gained 10°C on both my GPU and CPU (yeah, suboptimal airflow) After 1h on humankind, my 3080 TUF gaming OC was at 60°C and my 5900X at 61°C while keeping the "normal" OC perfs, amazing tuto man !

[@ajaniq]

Hi - I have the exact same GPU+CPU combo as you. What values for core clock and Voltage are you using? I have a 1080p screen. Just looking for undervolting numbers.

[@acid1787]

Doesn't make any difference... you are just forcing your GPU to run at lower clock speed at higher voltage.

[@captnsnafu]

@@acid1787 well, that's your opinion, benchmarks are clearly saying It does ...

[@DavidTzic]

Wow! Thank you for this video! I did exactly what you did (plus undervolted my i7-10700KF by - 0.50mv). I stress testes it by playing 4k on Cyberpunk and its a huge difference. GPU used to be 81C now it's 60-69 on 4k!!!

[@reasontoberider499]

which gpu u got

[@Walhor]

81c?!

[@heyguyslolGAMING]

I just got a Strix 3090. I ran stock test, unlocked pwr limits test and then an under volt. To my surprise I was able to get better performance, higher clocks, w/ less power draw and lower temps using the under volt. It was a lot more work to find over a standard oc but that may be because I'm not as experienced w/ under volting. I went from a 13525 score to a 14264 score in Port Royal and that was after I validated it was stable daily usage. I can only imagine how much more performance I could get if I slapped a water block on it but for now I'll stick w/ stock air cooling.

[@messigit]

Can you share the voltage? Then core, memory Mhz? Because I also using the ROG Strix 3090

[@khanlala2144]

which software he is using in the video to check the score

[@KBrod]

Thank you for the great guide! Improved performance and reduced the coil whine on my Strix 3080!

[@czirlolo24]

This video was a tremendous help! My gpu Temps werent getting incredibly high to were it became worrisome, but higher then I would have preferred. My cpu Temps were getting into the mid 70's and I'd prefer it to be sub 70's so I undervolted my cpu first using Intel XTU's software. Then I noticed my gpu Temps were doing the same, after watching this video and following your step by step guide I managed to get my gpu from 75c down to 60 as a max temp after 2 hours of solid gaming. Thanks alot man!! 👍👍

[@paulanderegg5536]

I think it is also a good idea to lower clocks a tiny bit, especially memory, and check to see how much FPS you actually see change. My 1080 Ti for instance when undervolted, 5500Mhz to 6000Mhz made like a 2fps difference, so I just kept it low.

[@jayleomac]

very true. i just got a 2060 ko ultra and raised the memory by 1100. got 6fps more in some games. same at +800. got it running .900V @ 1950MHZ - 7800MHZ. i can get the temps to 66but i leave the fan lower and run it at 74. good card.

[@acoolxss2496]

My guess is there is more performance gain with higher memory on cards with lower gigabytes of VRAM

[@ZPtyy]

@@jayleomac Got an Rtx 2060 myself and it might be abit late but dang I'm at .950V and I can't seem to get past 1900mhz core clock (got 800 memory clock tho) lol.

[@jayleomac]

@@ZPtyy 1900 is great. no noticeable difference im sure. good job

[@rahul-qm9fi]

@@jayleomac did you notice any difference in power consumption

[@SamsungS-or1qf]

Managed to trim like 20w from 485w on Asus 3090 Rog strix oc, what a hungry beast 😆😅. Make sure to use 3dmark extreme ultra stress test for 100% stability.

[@Tstinzy]

Nice video. Well explained and no extra crap

[@Yarsig]

That's a really aggressive undervolt right off the start. I recommend anyone doing this to START with 925mv and work down. 850 is really low for these GPUs and can cause system instability, especially if you lost the silicone lottery. I also recommend not even touching the memory clock unless you have experience with overclocking. Performance gains would be nominal and GDDR6X already gets very toasty.

[@DantalionVR]

AORUS Xtreme cards are higher binned and can achieve this easily, same with the AORUS Master that was used in this video. It really depends on which gpu you've got

[@janr4156]

Thx for the Video! Did it Not the Same way, but with 0.881V i get 1980mhz with 300w powerdraw, so Not power limitated, so my score is higher with Standard overclocking :D

[@shshankking]

With this settings, use 1080p medium to make the scenario where the card boosts up pretty high and then you'll see the crash. At 4k optimized, the load is of 100% and gpu wont boost to the frequency what actual games are going to hit. For eg.,my 3080 aorus extreme can hit boost speed of 2230mhz in 4K optimized easily for like some seconds then drops down.to 2000ish but completes. But when I game at those speeds, it generally crashes. My stable oc for gaming is 2150mhz..any game, full stable.

[@pogtuber5146]

Yeah same experience as me, I don't think Unigine is good for actual testing of settings in real games, but is nice for dialing in settings for testing.

[@snoweh1]

So how do you test this, but starting up a game and messing with the MSI Afterburner settings until the game crashes?

[@gameison4813]

Just check Shadow of the Tomb Raider to be sure bro

[@drummonkeystuffuk1875]

@@snoweh1 "d mark timespy will push your card to its limits for good testing and stability.

[@snoweh1]

@@drummonkeystuffuk1875 I did this actually, but instead of timespy I used fire strike. Card performed better undervolted, at least the score was higher.

[@zsookah3]

Any 3080 or 3090 owner should really do this. At stock some of these cards use over 400 watts, which is ridiculous considering the minimal bonus. The 3000 series cards also don't overclock well at all. I undervolted my Evga 3080 and saved roughly 100 watts at a performance cost of only 1-2%. Great video!

[@PabzRoz]

Completely worth it

[@pogtuber5146]

I undervolted a 3070 and saved 40W and 7°C at full load, with a lower max clock speed, and somehow gained 4 FPS in Tomb Raider at 4k lol

[@ljuc]

So the year has passed. How's your card doing?

[@cobainkuy342]

@@ljuc hi

[@bryanjenkins5963]

You say you are OCD and don't like the uneven numbers, but you selected 1851 which triggered my OCD. FYI, you can use the up and down arrow keys on the selected voltage to move it up or down in 1 MHz increments. I'm still playing with my undervolting to determine how low I want the clock. I'm at 1980 MHz at .9v right now on my 3080 FTW3 Ultra.

[@FutureNaught]

Don't NVIDIA cards change clocks in 12-25MHz increments depending on the generation of the card? I don't think changing the frequency by 1MHz will actually do anything. The card will still round up or down to the nearest increment.

[@Adam-hn2iw]

i have found a nice balance .875 at 1920. same card as you

[@Worms_Pro]

I'm at 1920Mhz at 0.825mV. Beat that ;)

[@TheAntsh]

@@FutureNaught that's what popup help for curve editor says. Basically the curve is just a guideline for a driver and actual frequencies will be rounded by it. So basically you may not bother with exact number, you just need a ballpark and driver will do the rest.

[@MaxReckless99]

your the best and your video is the only video that acutally helps. thank you for awesome video

[@GrandHighGamer]

I feel like I need the -250 clockspeed explaining. Why not just drag the curve and leave it at that? Because from the looks of it, all that does is reduce the efficiency of the card by underclocking at the lower power limits. Looks like the card would have hit 1300mhz at 700mv, and now only hits 1000mhz at 700mv. Surely the base clock should only need altering if you're not going to touch the curve at all? Edit: I'm pretty sure I'm correct and this is just 'overvolting' it at lower speeds - nothing dangerous but definitely the opposite of the goal. You can flatten the curve easily enough without having to mess around with the offset. Ctrl clicking the rightmost point also lets you adjust the whole curve from the starting voltage/clock, just line it up like you want and then flatten everything past that point. Gonna be more energy efficient, and gives a perfectly smooth curve too.

[@jaminschmitt]

Having a 850w platinum psu I’ve been a bit nervous that it won’t be able to handle my 3090 and 5900x at peak performance. It’s nice to know that I can reduce power consumption just a bit in case the psu isn’t enough.

[@jaminschmitt]

@@user_1of1 Okay. Sounds good. 👌🏻

[@jaminschmitt]

@@user_1of1 I don't know yet. It's sitting in it's shiny box until I get a cpu. I got the MSI Suprim. It has a 420w power draw. PSU is the Seasonic Platinum grade 850w

[@sergiomendoza8604]

My 850w was not enouhg had to get me a 1000 psu...9900k rtx3090 no issues now.

[@Walhor]

I was glad I bought a 1600w years ago so I never worry with my 3090 5950x

[@ReapaOfSoulz]

Cheers for this guy my 3080ti running at 1980mhz/10602mhz .875mhz so overclocked and undevolted. Why do you lower the core 300 first though?

[@PyromancerRift]

I have undervolted mine at 1875mhz for 893mv to make it quiet. the loss in performance is absolutely not an issue. A few % is nothing, especially when performance matter at around 60fps. But the decrease in heat and noise is significant. It is the 3080 ventus OC version

[@THETHUND3rstruck]

I have the same card.. have you experienced any issues with low GPU usage in games? For me its LoL, WoW, and AC Valhalla.

[@Christopher-oh4xs]

@@THETHUND3rstruck I have the same card. For the Undervolt I can go with 875mV @ 1905MHz. Rock solid in every bench and after hours of gaming. No issues with this card. I wouldn't go on a high memory oc bc it is sometimes getting worse performance. You'll have to test memory OC while a benchmark is running to see where there sweetspot is.

[@swiftlysinking]

I have the Ventus 3090 and this thing undervolts like a champ. 1905mhz @ .862 volts to save about 100watts with no real world noticeable difference in gaming performance

[@Yoshi92]

@@THETHUND3rstruck CPU Bottleneck? What's ur CPU?

[@Yuenix]

Wow thank you bro, I was needed this too for my rtx 3080 as well, I am same as you where I am fine with the stock settings with undervolt too. Tyvm.

[@barrysauce]

Thanks this help on this. I have tried to share with some folks but they do not wish to understand how much it helps to under volt and still run the card at the same hash rate.

[@ARealPain]

I know undervolting is good for lowering power usage and temps, but would it be worth doing on a watercooled 3080? I used your video and another to undervolt my 2080 ti and it worked wonders! dropped from 1.1 to 0.825 mV and from 80 degrees to 65. Also underclocked a hair from 1825 core clock to 1700, no FPS loss. I appreciate that you took your time to show us all this magic!

[@pf100andahalf]

The whole point of this is to lower the power usage while increasing performance or for less heat or both, so if that's what you want to do then it's worth it.

[@MrMisha87]

Thanks so much, got rid of my awful coilwine, while keeping my performance :D

[@kucyxd]

Great video bro, I would get a lot of help from this for sure. You got a like :)

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[@clausbohm9807]

Thanks, I will be getting my first evga Tuf 3090 tomorrow and just learned today how to undervolt so your numbers will be a good guide where to start on the new cards.

[@anhtung1357]

Thanks sir for the best guide. It helps me to increased performance and save energy. Hope the best will always come to your family!

[@TheObmj]

I used this method here and found the lowest voltage I could get the highest sustained clocks at. In the superposition benchmark at 4k optimized I went from 13,487 to 14,662 and it was stable running at 868mV at 1905mhz and memory at 795mhz OC. However when I went to play CP2077 it would crash. After some trial and error was able to keep all my settings but drop the clock by 30mhz settling at 1875 mhz and now it's stable.. the actual boost clocks are somewhere around 1930mhz. When the card was stock it would run at 2050mhz or so but would perform about 8.5% worse due to power limits. Temps went from 70C to 65C in synthetic bench and all the way down to 58C in CP2077.

[@acid1787]

Doesn't make any difference... you are just forcing your GPU to run at lower clock speed at higher voltage.

[@ljuc]

@@acid1787 With such drop in performance didn't you basically downgrade it to the previous card?

[@MechAdv]

1850MHz is a pretty low clock speed when most 3080s are clocking in the mid 1900s and golden samples upwards of 2GHz with traditional OC efforts. I run my Ventus 3x 3080 at a +125Mhz offset, but flatten the curve at 1950MHz so that it won’t try to exceed 2000MHz and crash some of my more sensitive titles. It’s effectively a variable speed undervolt. 56C at 100% load with 100% fan. Although the Ampere architecture doesn’t benefit much from an OC, it’s nice to have your system optimized for performance.

[@ljuc]

I am a mere mortal and didn't understand if undervolting good or bad for your system? i am not talking about fps.

[@MechAdv]

@@ljuc Undervolting is always good if it is stable. You’re basically trying to tune your system to use the minimum voltage to achieve optimal clock speeds and improve your thermals. Increasing the voltage beyond the nominal on your CPU or GPU will reduce the longevity of your chips, regardless of thermals.

[@christophervanzetta]

@@MechAdv High thermals aren’t good either as micro cracks can develop on soldering points and caps can blow leading to an expensive paper weight

[@antmon123]

this is fantastic..... less wattage power draw, boosted ram clock, runs cooler.... doing this on an Aorus RTX 3080 Master now!

[@antmon123]

just achieved an avg of 10c lower temp (max 55C) and about 90 fps, with a max power draw of 275w - playing Assassin's Creed Valhalla at max settings and 1440p for 2hrs --- awesome!

[@viperwavstudios]

Ty so much for this.... I ended up rollung back my driver to 456.55, and voltage limiting my system too 1.0 and mhz to 1850 - I was FINALLY able to change my monitor refresh rate back to 1600..and so far has been rock solid.. I was seriously stressing having to do an Rma or return... seems the voltage* is the issue... Limit that shit and it runs smooth..

[@nisseost1]

But putting the initial clock speed down on lower voltages will just make it use more power at idle. So instead, leave default clock speed for the lower frequencies, and then just shift select all the frequencies beyond the point you want to change and drag them under the max voltage point. This way lower voltages will maintain a higher frequency

[@_BangDroid_]

I dropped 20C on my 3070 lmao crazy. Was hitting 90 after a about 1 minute full load. It's summer here and I don't have AC so my room is pretty hot about 30C during day. Now I'm at 70C at full load after about 1 hour. I probably have to do some more stability tweaking, but I'm at 0.856@1860 MHz. Yeah I know it's far from the most performance, but this Inno3D card seems to run super hot, I think it's just a bad cooler design. I just want the thermals to be safe.

[@SzymonKasperczyk]

Lets not use this +1000 memory as reference, it is not ideal. Many cards may have different stock clocks so offset doesnt tell you much, but a lot of them will decrease in performance at some point, thought it wont crash. Try to run some tests. My MSI suprim X begins to hinder performance after +850 memory.

[@maxonedk209]

What settings did you end up with? 🙂 Got the same card 🙏

[@torkalatorkala1807]

I have a question, might be a stupid one, but your card has a boost clock of 1845Mhz, while the "normal" clock is 1440Mhz, so what really is the difference between vase clock and boost clock? Isn't setting the limit to your boost clock considered overclocking? I am asking this because I am having problems with some games where overclocking could be the issue.. Although that really doesn't make a lot of sense now that I read that back..

[@RS-nq8xk]

Don't think anyone uses the base clock. Heck even my HP prebuilt 3060Ti can go over 2000mhz without changing anything in Afterburner... (Adjusted it to 1815mhz@850mv or so, 110 watts in AIDA64)

[@euresko1]

Gave me an idea how to use this setting, for me wasn't quite right. Something that helped me was with EVGA the X1 software, I could monitor the voltage and temps and could carefully dial it in. Just so people know it's not a one n done setting, takes some practice and research in how to tell what is going on and what needs tweaking.

[@LunarisDream]

Thanks for the vid. 3080 went from 80C to 65C max and is drawing 80W less.

[@hmmodi9052]

What program did you use for the stress test ? Thanks for the video man!

[@TheAntsh]

It is Unigine Superposition but you may use any GPU demanding game with ultra settings e.g. RDR2 or Cyberpunk

[@nasdaq15]

thank you sir. dropped my card by 10-13 degrees

[@unknownsoldier7164]

I got the new MSI 3080 man...Coilwhine like crazy. I go with 825mw on 1800mhz now...10-13 degrees cooler at some games and zero coil whine.

[@mikewilliams1479]

Nice video man. Planning to buy a 3070 Ti cause its all I can find and I want it to be quiet. Thanks in advance for saving my power bill by some margin I am sure

[@ashleyjohansson230]

thanks for this video, its ridiculous that I need to undervolt my rtx 3080 just to make it stable after all the black screen loud fan crashing thats been happening.

[@Synicaly]

yw, 🙂

[@Conker1337]

Why you have to overclock the memory by +1000? I also saw some do 600, but why you need to do that after undervolting it

[@GamboTheGent]

also wondering about this @ultrawide Masterrace

[@sergeantsausage2609]

You don’t need to, it’s just added performance

[@e.e121]

@@sergeantsausage2609 probably reduced by that point. Self correcting memory chips yada. Their performance curve is V shaped so I would bench with something heavy like Metro Exodus or Timespy 3d

[@sergeantsausage2609]

@@e.e121 I've been able to push my 3080 and my 3080 ti memory by 1000MHz without issue. I know they have ECC, but you can find out by tracking performance. I do have a ftw3 which is really good at cooling memory.

[@alexandrerossi3553]

Hi there! Nice video! I really lost the silicon lottery... I’m not able to undervolt my 3080 XC3 ultra. Just able to get 1830mhz @0.925 mv, the power draw is still above 300W... below that voltage the card freezes in Time Spy bench in such way that I have to DDU the driver. The first time it happened I almost got a heart attack course my screen became flashing, messages for “forcing driver reinstall” and the 3080 was not recognized in control panel... only DDU solved the problem... I’ll stay that way but this thing runs as hot as hell!! EVGA should have a better thermal solution for this card. Thanks anyway! Merry Xmas! And a much better new year!!

[@benscko]

oof. I was able to hit 1920MHz @880mV

[@Mormod88]

​@@benscko i've got almost the same 1920Mhz @887mV is stable but yesterday i tried 1950Mhz @893mV and it works great ( 3DMark & Cyberpunk ) power draw is under 300W

[@benscko]

@@Mormod88 yeah i also tried 1950mhz and it also works.

[@Mormod88]

@@benscko does your suprim x has coil whine ? below 900mV my suprim x is good but not perfect. I tried an asus strix 3080 oc ..this thing was so nice.. out of the box 2000Mhz but coil whine started already at 60 fps in normal games not just AAA games.. that was horrible :/ ^^

[@benscko]

@@Mormod88 i have a pny rtx 3080. No coil whine at any frequency or at any fps in games

[@panczenPL]

Fantastic video man I highly appreciate this lesson. I`ve applied this to my 3080ti suprim x. I`ve set the core to 1960mhz at 0.875mv and I`m getting like 60 fps on dying light 2 1440p/ultra-rtx preset/ryzen5800x/32gb 3600mhz cl 16 ram with 360watt gpu power consumption compared to overclocks (stock voltage) @ 2170 gpu clock/ +450mhz on vram which gives same temperatures but 75fps at 395watts. At this point undervolting makes no sense to me because i`m getting significantly lower fps with not much of a power saving. This benchmark is not really relevant to gamers who want to play at ultra preset on their top end gpus.

[@countpuchi]

True, though some people would love a cooler card. 60Fps stable is okay-ish for some people. I personally would not mind AAA Games with high fidelity settings at 60. But on competitive games if the undervolt can give you 144fps with undervolt thats golden

[@TheSouthForgot]

learning on undervolting so my question is what’s the point in dropping the clock at the start? is it just for the sake of shifting the curve? wouldn’t that mean you’re underclocked as well at the end and you’ll lose performance?

[@ARealPain]

You lower the voltage, but bring the mhz up to the highest stable core clocks. Say you run a game constantly at 1950 at 1.035 mV, you bring the entire curve down -200/300 however low, then bring up the curve at, let's say, 850 watts and take that dot and move it to 1950 for stability at 850 mV. Most times, you'll run alot cooler because less power, but can gain or stay the same in performance; for the most part. The curve before 850 mV will be lower, yes, but if you're running at that low of mV, then that is guaranteed a low end game, like Lost Ark, and in turn also keep the lower temps and run at the same FPS. At least this is my experience when I undervolted my 2080 ti. I'm about to test it out myself on my 3080. I'm no expert myself, but from undervolting and testing several games, that's what I've seen.

[@TheSouthForgot]

@@ARealPain thanks for the explanation bud...i have a 3090 rog strix oc i noticed that the numbers you first gave is exactly what it runs, its usually at 1950 at 1.035 or 1.025 cant remember that means i should try to look for a stable voltage running 1950 right? even if its just a whole volt that should be enough to run cooler correct? i dont really have any cooling issues as it always runs between 65-75 with warzone but any power consumption i can save is worth it huh

[@ARealPain]

@@TheSouthForgot I just was tossing out numbers as an example. But you'll have to find the core clocks that wont crash the game at the lowest mV. For the part about lowering the mhz before, say 825 or 850, the game will just skip those numbers and go for the 825 cap. I dont know what numbers a 3090 can reach. But I did it on my 3080, it's watercooled so tempts didnt change because it never goes above 51 degrees. But I managed to lower the power by 80 watts and lower the mV to 875. Didnt lose any performance getting it to 1925 mhz.

[@MauriceTarantulas]

Nice. Usefull if I get a 3080. Earned a sub👍

[@yams900]

Perfect ! Going to get 3080 soon, by Easter 🐣 Once I have the GPU, then I’ll start playing with under voltage⚡️

[@ljuc]

How did it go?

[@yams900]

@@ljuc It went well thanks ! Unfortunately pump for cooler died :( It will be repaired/replaced under NZXT 6 year warranty, but still a pain being without a computer. It will be 2 weeks soon, unsure how much longer it will take. I’m using a laptop, but not good enough for FS2020

[@arkantozz1058]

Ich bin mal gespannt. Hab ein BeQuiet 700 Watt Gold Netzteil und hab jetzt eine MSI 3080 Suprim X gekauft. Als CPU einen Ryzen 7 3700x Stock. Mit ein bisschen Klimbim (4x8 DDR4 TridentZ, 2x Sata HDD, 1x Sata SSD und 2x NVMe) Und noch ne externe DAC Audiokarte + Beyerdynamic MMX 300. Also so ein wenig kommst zusammen. Ich habe auch nicht vor zu übertakten. Ich bin der Meinung das Netzteil sollte bei einem normalen Gaming Betrieb nicht mukken. Ich hab auch keinen Torture Test vor. Aber ich befürchte trotz alledem das ich die Karte undervolten muss weil ich eigentlich kein Bock hab das Netzteil die ganze Zeit bei 90% Auslastung zu haben. Aber ich bin guter Dinge, BeQuiet stellt ja kein Ramsch her und Netzteile sind an für sich relativ hochwertig. Wenn die Verfügbarkeit es zulassen würde hätte ich auch noch ein neues Netzteil gekauft, Vorzugsweise das Straigt Power 850 Watt Platinum aber oh Wunder nicht Verfügbar. ;)

[@Daruffy]

I have a 3080 Master like you... but i find my undervolt does not seem to work in every game. As in the clock will hold... but in a game like say Observer Redux the card will still just pull the full 350 watts.

[@jrv1326]

Use a game like control with all settings at max plus ray tracing on and then do the undervolt until the game is stable

[@身世成谜]

Solve my problem. My 3090 hit 119M when outside less than 10C, and memory temp is OK about 94C. But when outside above 15C, the memory temp reach 98C or higher. When I use nicehash quickminer, the LITE OC can lock the voltage at 731mv, mem temp below 90C, and ethash 100M. I think this is a safe setting. So I search method for locking volatage, this vid works.

[@DavidSorianoP]

Noob Question here, why wouldn't you just lower the power limit, and oc the memory, instead of undercoating but keeping power settings at 100% ?

[@z83rulek]

Because lower the power limit will damage your performance, but undervolting will not. Undervolting can even boost your performance, by undervolting -> lower temperature -> higher frequency (frequency often limited by temperature)

[@z83rulek]

In the default setting, say 1.1V 2000MHz after you undervolt it, 1.0V 2000MHz then the power draw will be much less, but the frequency still there

[@Chickendinguss]

What was your vram temps after that memory overclock?

[@The0Flaming0One]

Seems to have worked well for me. Thanks a lot!

[@pallebosken8301]

I undervolted my 3080, works in most games and benchmark apps, but insta crash in Metro Exodus with RTX ON. Can you try your UV in a RTX ON game? I have heard UV can cause issues when using RTX.

[@admiralcoffeemaker6310]

Yeah same here lol.

[@xXPLMCXx]

I played Cyberpunk with RTX for 30 hours and i only got some crashes in Jackies garage

[@mattia_599]

Same with my 3090 at 825 mv and 1880... Crash only in Metro Exudus... Crash at 1850 too... Today try at 1840 :(

[@vidardanielsen3477]

Did you OVERvolt the memory at the end, thoughts on that?

[@hansvdz5834]

He overclocked the memory, he's still undervolting the card.

[@MaxReckless99]

you should do more videos like this.

[@GamersGuard]

Take the negative curve technique when you put minus 200Hz let's say then pump up your target speed, but sub speeds kinda overvolted, isn't it risky?

[@tist006]

What about the points before your target voltage? It appears they would be running at a higher voltage now for any given frequency under base clock. Unless for gaming you hit that target clock speed fairly quick so it wouldn’t matter.

[@fishywtf]

Everything before the moved point doesn't matter. You're essentially using more voltage for slower frequency meaning there's even more stability.

[@gameison4813]

@@fishywtf It depends on your power limit. There can be huge power draw differences from one game to another. My 3060ti has only 220W power limit with 110% slider and if i would run it at 1860mhz/925mV than it will draw 170-220W. If i would undervolt it using higher frequency and voltage then i could end up before "the moved point that doesn't matter". I use different method. I oveclocked my gpu by 105mhz to core and 900 to memory and limited my power draw to 180W. It runs at whatever clockspeed at voltage it can deliver at 180W leaving no room for power draw spikes to 220W and running with higher that 1860mhz clocks in some games. I'm using whole curve in optimal way. Let's say that you can oc your gpu by 105mhz then it will be able to run that +105mhz at any given voltage. That's how curve works. If you limit your voltage to whatever you want than it won't be stable with more than 105mhz over original clock it was running at that voltage.

[@RyanHarris77]

The stock gaming x trio 3080 voltage curve in afterburner tops out at 2040 mhz so that’s the frequency I locked in. After a few rounds of stability testing it landed on 963 mV at about 84% TDP. This gets me thinking about comparing the performance difference between 2040 mhz and 1850 mhz. I’m guessing it’s not going to be noticeable.

[@djswizzair]

nice vid, got my 3080 tuf to 1950@ 0.900 instead of stock 1890-1920 @ 0.95-1mv, 4 degrees cooler, 15100 points in this test =) gpu in quiet bios wich just applies a less agressive fan curve...temps stay at 75 degree(with performance bios im at 65 degree) @ 72% fanspeed (can hear them at 70% barely on performance bios they would push card from 72 degree target to 65) got scared my fans are broken but this card is so quiet even on stock already...im drawing 310 watts max now instead of 350, i also have full uv setting with 0,825 @1875 for maximum silence and fans stay under 70% then only losing like 3-5% fps

[@postedinthecut1565]

temps are still high and you are pulling way to much watts for undervolt should be like 2-250 watts tops

[@djswizzair]

@@postedinthecut1565 onnly becuase gpu is set onn silent mode curve, with nnormal it would be 50s

[@joaomatos40]

thanks a lot for this. was really helpful!

[@TheLebno]

100th comment. OCD-bro, here. Great video.

[@vidardanielsen3477]

Liked subbed and everything, good stuff man, but I don't understand this stuff. I might be able to copy, but I'd like to understand as well:p What gets you the first number you need, the one that's individual for each card? (Better card lower number, don't understand why a better card can run at lower volt, feels like the way you say it it can either run or not and just feels unlogical that the card can only run at one volt and related speed) Why on earth does this work? Why do nvidia sell worse performance when they could just undervolt, makes no sense to me but I believe it cause Iv seen several videos like this now. Please enlighten me, please.

[@pogtuber5146]

The first number is more of a baseline to adjust the whole curve so that when you go to move the dots they get perfectly flat at the GPU clock speed that you're shooting for. After that it doesn't matter, as you can hold alt/shift to move the whole curve. The reason this works, and the reason nVidia's partners set their cards this way, is because not all GPU chips are manufacturered good enough to handle higher clock speeds at lower voltages. Bad chip = bad transistors which fail when they don't have enough electricity going through them, and this means the chip gets errors when trying to perform at higher clock speeds. Higher voltage = more electric current = less chance of failure, but it also means more heat. So the reason nVidia has higher voltage than necessary is because they do not know which video cards could fail for the consumer because of too low voltage. To play it safe, they create a higher voltage profile so that when you get your video card, it doesn't crash, but it does run hotter. The technology of boosting clock speeds and then settling down when temperatures are too high is combined with fan speed to provide overall end user experience :)

[@Nightbob]

Is MSI afterburner used in all cases or is that due to an MSI Motherboard?

[@GODFADED]

No you can use this afterburner with all modern hardware but it’s just more optimized with hardware products/components made by MSI

[@zafer9006]

thank you it helps a lot my coil whine %80 gone :)

[@masterpwn3r]

Holy cow, I'm getting close to 79 degrees on my 3080 paired with a ryzen 5800x. It's at 60ish degrees but then the CPU kicks in and pc begins to burn. Airflox isn't that great in my case (older NZXT).

[@masterpwn3r]

Now at 72 degrees @1700mhz instead of 1850mhz, still getting way above 60 fps on 4k on most titles.

[@Dovahkiin978]

Can you run this undervolt - overclock daily or there will be issues?? i ve gpu temp below 65c all the time.

[@Shevanovich]

Thanks for the video, would these settings work with an RTX 2080 TI?

[@Paul-if1jq]

Yes.

[@fishywtf]

The 2 must do for RTX 3000 series, IMO, is using Studio Drivers and Undervolting, stability, quietness, and efficiency.

[@3dsupport887]

This the first time I read 3000 series + studio driver as a must , do you have an article about this aspect ? or source ?

[@gameison4813]

Don't do it. Just overclock it and use power limit to have it running at whetever you want it to draw. If you edit voltage frequency curve only at some points than you leave perfomance on a table with not demanding games and overvolting your gpu with really heavy games. If you don't understand what i say then i will give you example. My 3060ti undervolted at 1860/925mV draws anything from 170-220W. If i wanted it to use higher clocks at higher voltage than it would still draw up to 220W as that is my power limit but it won't hit that higher clockspeed in every game and instead it will ran at lower clock. I you lower whole curve and push clocks only at some point then anything below that point will be overvolted. I'm using +105mhz core +900mhz memory and 80-90% power limit depending how game's framerate responds to higher clockspeeds.

[@JoeBob79569]

Yea, there seems to be a lot of confusion about this. It seems that with these cards, when you overclock all you are doing is undervolting, and giving yourself more headroom, and vice versa. So people (like in the video above) are basically underclocking (overvolting) the card, and then dropping the voltage back down again at the upper limits. The idea of just overclocking (undervolting), and then putting a limit on the power seems to make a lot more sense. There's no doubt that the method in the video above works, but it just doesn't sit right with me. It seems messy.

[@drummonkeystuffuk1875]

ive got my voltagfe down to 900 and stable at 1905mhz...hit max 66C on a warmer day :)

[@Swatmat]

Doing this would prevent the card from boosting past 2000mhz though right? My 3090 fe hits 2050 by itself on stock? Or is this doable with undervolting too?

[@enricod.7198]

Usually you can reach max boost clocks with a bit of undervolt yes, but since these gpus gain much more performance from the memory oc rather than gpu oc, you should give it the +1000 on the memory and undervolt it..leave it like 1900mhz and lower the voltage

[@Paul-if1jq]

If yours boosts to 2050-2100 you have to pick the frequency you are happy with, under voting will still achieve lower thermals and power draw. I tend to hammer the card in a few bench tests, to see where is settles.....mine runs @ 2100, undervaluing still achieves 2100.....

[@ikarsoontiens959]

I had to double check when i heard you introduce yourself as "ultrawhite masterrace".

[@wobalive]

You setting that clock to 1850, and watching the line to the end, does that mean GPU won't even go above 1850mhz?

[@MikaTarkela]

I don't understand which values to use. I have 3080Ti.

[@ccjh0806]

Could you not just drag the whole curve to the Left? Means lower voltage for the same clocks?

[@Mona_Lisa123]

Audio is a tad low but I enjoyed the content. You got a like and a sub from me. Keep doing what you do!

[@Waldherz]

Friendly reminder: If this audio sounds low to you then A: You have really bad headphones B: You are used to listening to audio on a WAY to high volume. Which will and probably already has caused permanent damage to your ears.

[@Mona_Lisa123]

@@Waldherz No and no. Please stop it.

[@amilcar5772]

Why dont u explain why are u raising up a voltage/frrquency point? Whats the point on doing that?

[@Bemx2k]

My voltage curve let me play BF5 1440p with stable GPU clock 2130MHz before without modification it was 1960MHz and less 11 frames per seconds

[@Synicaly]

that sounds great

[@hermannott7743]

What voltage do you use ?

[@Bemx2k]

@@hermannott7743 0.993

[@damonm3]

@@Bemx2k huh? Makes no sense. Jumping almost 200mhz with less power? Picked up 11fps? Let’s see you video

[@Bemx2k]

@@damonm3 on average you will need 1v to keep 2130MHz on GPU ,some chips event 1.05 but it is still lower and cooler than default

[@Mormod88]

My 3080 Suprim X is stable at 0.875V, 1920Mhz, 250Watt and 77° Silent Mode fans max. 1200rpm its really really quiet for that power ! 2010Mhz is possible at 0.950V but for me i really dont need 3-4 fps more.. cause its getting hotter, louder and needs more than 300Watt.. its not worth it ( for me ) But i really dont know if i have a good model or a bad one what do u guys think ?

[@jklppp97]

hey, i''ve got the same card undervolted to 2020Mhz@937mV. The Thermals are about the same as stock, but the card is a bit faster.

[@shinigamisgames]

Yes 77 is the way to go

[@khanlala2144]

is it necessary to reduce core clock by-300 for undervolting?

[@f0lzen]

hey listen man, I have rtx 3080 vision gigabyte OC and my gpu always overclock itself no matter what i do when i am gaming it's base clock is 1800mhz and when i am gaming it always goes from 1800 to 1930 and max stock oc is 1950. I did exactly what u did in the graph and the gpu still hits 1950 mhz how to fix that : ( Idk if my gpu is throttling or not but I have pretty nice mesh td500 cooler master case with 3 fans in front, 120 mm fan in the back + 2 fans on the cpu cooler and it's a mesh case and the airflow should be dope but I feel like my gpu is throttling when I play doom eternal. When I play the game for 2-3 min it's smooth but when the pressure gets too much game becomes slower idk why it could be the throttling. When I alt tab and stay on desktop for 2-3 minutes and then quickly jump back into the game, game is only smooth for a few minutes then the throttling comes back and the game starts being slow ...... I have capped the fps at 250 because if i play wtih 300 on 1440p for example my gpu hits 74 degrees .. Is this self 1950 oc fixable I want it to stay on stock 1800 mhz frequency i dont need the additional base clock that the gpu provides for the games i play ...

[@pogtuber5146]

Your video card is not throttling itself at 74°C. The throttle point on most of the RTX 30XX series is 83°C. My guess is that you have another driver or program interfering with the VF curve that you are trying to set with MSI Afterburner.

[@zencontroller]

Great video buddy!!!!

[@אביבאדרי-ט2ש]

So I recently got The aorus 3080 master. The problem is, on Idle the memory clock spike every couple of seconds to 1800mhz,and than go back to 210. this happens while I do regular task, youtube, google and stuff like that and when I dont touch the pc at all, It's on 210 stable. any solution to this? I was looking everywhere and didn't find anything. Im so desperate about it.. what do you think?Is this normal?

[@doublezeta4s]

How is the Wattage & Performance when playing a few games. Specifically when using a title tobenchmark without DLSS/RTX, one with dlss, one with rtx, one with both dlss and rtx.

[@hoodadtabibi8211]

hey men tnx for video when i do this it's never exact the frequency always change (ususaly a bit higher) and that makes it unstable do you know how to fix it ?

[@acid1787]

@3:37 wouldn't that make your cards clock 1845 mhz run at 1250mv?

[@vidardanielsen3477]

Hey, can i undervolt even more then this to get even lower temps? I don't mind 10-20% performance loss

[@danielantunez8355]

Yes, ifnu don't care about performance you can probs get this low asf temp wise

[@pogtuber5146]

Yeap just target a lower GPU clock at a lower voltage. Maybe start the horizontal flatline at like 650mv and hold ALT or SHIFT to drag the line down to 1600mhz.

[@JaggersMusic]

Saludos .. que configuración me recomiendas para la rtx 3080 evga

[@rowo89]

isn't it better to first increase the ofset until the mv hit the desired mhz and then lower all on the right? read in forums it is better that way

[@pogtuber5146]

Yes, but only because it provides a smoother curve before the minimum voltage.

[@BuckstarrZ]

But WHY did you bring down the whole curve before applying the new voltage curve. What is reducing the clock doing for us?

[@BuckstarrZ]

@@nicolaschasteler but that's not true, we can increase whatever point we want and the following points will reign in accordingly. It doesn't matter how far down the previous points are.

[@Isaax]

Nice! Thanks.

[@Kwicc213]

wow this works ! Thank you so much !

[@Finsterwald_]

Hi mate, I got a watercooled system with 3 radiators and a watercooled 3090 from gigabyte. The GPU stays at maximum 35 degrees under heavy load. Which settings would you recommend for me in afterburner?

[@pogtuber5146]

Don't undervolt, just overclock the shit out of it? Grab another +1000mhz of memory speed and increase your clock by +100. If you need the performance, anyways.

[@melmagallon6233]

LOL, that's an awesome setup, but undervolting isn't for you unless you want to save some dollars on the electric bill. Most people here do it to ramp down fan speeds on the graphics card. With that kind of temp under full load, you'd be overvolting. Unfortunatlely, there isn't much headroom on these cards. If you find differently, let us know.

[@Finsterwald_]

yeah unfortunatley I had to send back the RTX 3090 from Gigabyte. The GPU turned all of my monitors black, while the PC was still running in the backround. I have now an RTX from Asus and never faced the issues again.

[@butterflyowns]

where did you pull 800mv - 850mv from?

[@barthamellow1138]

is there any downside to running the gpu at a fixed voltage?

[@dan8t669]

-) Unnecessary power draw on idle. -) Fans constantly running. -) Some programs using hardware acceleration in 2D mode might crash. (certain video player, CAD, simulation software...)