Aurora R11, overclocking the RTX 3080 GPU

Question

Wondering what kind of success people have had with the R11 with the RTX 3080? I swapped out the CPU air cooler for a Dell water cooler, got the VRM heatsink OEM installed finally from Dell, and was able to get a stable overclock with the 3080 hitting 2150 at times. Required a fairly aggressive fan curve and an open case, but it was fine and ran under 70. Cyberpunk was cruising along. Anyone else with some good results?

LDDiamond · Answer

Hitting 2150 is fine, a lot can, I'm more interested in your average boost clock. I seen people manage very high boost, but it throttles a lot and their average is lower and there is a lot more spikes. Now if you can sustain 2150 or close, that is very impressive. I didn't push mine too hard but i could sustain around 1960 with 2050 max clock or so. I went with an undervolt instead as the performance gain was less than 5%

Rythmicone · Answer

Ive had many sustained runs over 2100 playing Cyberpunk. This is at 4k with very high settings, 50 frames and up.  There are some strange things that happen when running less challenging resolutions, and games.  It tends to run up high then throttle.  At these settings, I get some fan noise, but both the CPU and GPU rarely breach 70.  I was very impressed myself, must be a good chip.

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Aurora R11, overclocking the RTX 3080 GPU

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