Nvidia Scanner in action – RTX 2080 overclocked to 2100MHz automatically
Nvidia Scanner in action – RTX 2080 overclocked to 2100MHz automatically
At the Turing Editors Day at GDC 2018, Nvidia’s Tom Petersen showcased the utility in action, using it as it is implemented in EVGA’s Precision X1 overclocking suite on an RTX 2080.
Using the utility, Petersen managed to overclock the RTX 2080 to over 2100MHz without any changes to the GPU’s power target, making it possible that higher clock speeds are achievable with higher power limits.
Nvidia’s OC Scanner offers users an integrated stress test that is designed to place a large amount of computational stress on the graphics card while eliminating the need to reboot the user’s system upon failure, taking away most of the hassles associated with overclocking. The utility is also designed to create users a clock speed voltage curve, allowing users to see the highest clock speeds that their graphics card is capable of at specific voltages.
Nvidia’s OC Scanner will be integrated into other AIB overclocking utilities, with MSI Afterburner, ASUS GPU Tweak and other competing solutions offering support for the tool in the near future.
At this time it is unknown how high the average RTX graphics card will overclock, but a demonstration of over 2100MHz is an encouraging sight, especially after considering the per CUDA core performance enhancements offered by the Turing graphics architecture.
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