30xx Series Founders Edition

[Participant]

I've got my 3070 FE at 2025MHz at 975mV (I think), +1000MHz memory.

I'm not sure I've fully got the hang of the Afterburner voltage adjustments, so am still tinkering, but it seems stable in Flight Simulator so far with no crashes or artefacts, and it's made a useful difference to FPS.

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

I think the curve editor is a bit bugged if you keep tweaking the points eventually it'll apply something completely different.

 

[Mesai]

Decided to have a play with mine yesterday and I settled on stable 850mv @ 1920mhz with +500 on the memory. Tried 825mv but locks up in Time Spy straight away. 850mv passes the Time Spy test. Gives me an extra 700 points over the stock settings.

I've seen people get to 800mV but at stock clocks so what you've hit is pretty good. I need to spend a bit more time on mine but even at 900mV/1905MHz I rarely see power limit throttle and temps sit at 70c even after a couple hours of gaming.

Played COD Black Ops Cold War Campaign for couple of hours gets to 66c. Noticed it was actually going to 1935mhz.

The card works in 15MHz increments so you'd expect 1920 to be correct, although maybe 1935 is the boost?

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

I've seen people get to 800mV but at stock clocks so what you've hit is pretty good. I need to spend a bit more time on mine but even at 900mV/1905MHz I rarely see power limit throttle and temps sit at 70c even after a couple hours of gaming.



The card works in 15MHz increments so you'd expect 1920 to be correct, although maybe 1935 is the boost?

When you say 800mv at stock clocks what do you mean?
You set the frequency you want at different voltages in the curve? If it's not power or temperature limited it will boost to them.
So if you set 2000 at 800mv it not really stock clocks. As you've boosted the frequency at 800mv to 2000.

 

[willhub]

I know it's been mentioned already, but undervolting the RTX 3080 FE is free performance and an overall win-win for 1min worth of work.

Voltage/Frequency @ 900mV/1905MHz. Division 2 benchmark, went from 10,593 (118 FPS) to 10,999 (123 FPS).

I tried to undervolt but it just won't stay at the voltage, it goes lower and alters the clocks.

 

[Mesai]

When you say 800mv at stock clocks what do you mean?
You set the frequency you want at different voltages in the curve? If it's not power or temperature limited it will boost to them.
So if you set 2000 at 800mv it not really stock clocks. As you've boosted the frequency at 800mv to 2000.

It's quite an old post (from September) so the values might be relevant to when the drivers were bad; he had the clock set to 1800MHz which is what stock clocks were achieving.

 

[Mesai]

I tried to undervolt but it just won't stay at the voltage, it goes lower and alters the clocks.

Are you doing what this guys does at the start of the video? Obviously instead of his settings, you should be dragging the point at 900mV up to 1905MHz, then click apply and it'll flatten the line after it.

It should only hit that voltage and frequency under load so open HWINFO and watch the max values while playing a game.

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

It's quite an old post (from September) so the values might be relevant to when the drivers were bad; he had the clock set to 1800MHz which is what stock clocks were achieving.

Ah okay I thought there was something else I was missing from the curve but essentially you just try boost higher at a lower voltage. You could call it overclocking or undervolting depending what way you want to look at the curve

 

[Gerard]

 

[gpuerrilla]

New 3080Ti in disguise ^

 

[varkanoid]

Are you doing what this guys does at the start of the video? Obviously instead of his settings, you should be dragging the point at 900mV up to 1905MHz, then click apply and it'll flatten the line after it.

It should only hit that voltage and frequency under load so open HWINFO and watch the max values while playing a game.

Yes I followed this guide but altered my numbers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/jn878f/small_beginners_undervolting_guide_for_rtx_3070_fe/

 

[JediFragger]

New 3080Ti in disguise ^

Flash forward 2 months, replace '3090' with '3080Ti' and retain same pricing

 

[SaBBz]

I've got my 3070 FE at 2025MHz at 975mV (I think), +1000MHz memory.

I'm not sure I've fully got the hang of the Afterburner voltage adjustments, so am still tinkering, but it seems stable in Flight Simulator so far with no crashes or artefacts, and it's made a useful difference to FPS.

What’s your Timespy graphics score with that undervolt please?

Edit: Just gave it a go and I get 14,101. With my +105 core I get 14,488.

Maybe undervolting isn’t for me as my card runs cool anyway and my benchmark scores always seem to be better with the simple overclock.

 

[A2B]

Bless (suckers).

 

[HRL]

What’s your Timespy graphics score with that undervolt please?

Edit: Just gave it a go and I get 14,101. With my +105 core I get 14,488.

Maybe undervolting isn’t for me as my card runs cool anyway and my benchmark scores always seem to be better with the simple overclock.

Coming to similar conclusions myself with my 3090.

At stock it maxes out at 62C, with a heavy OC, about 68C.

Tried undervolting and just ended up with lower scores in all benchmarks and the card ran at the same temp as at stock.

Will probably have another go at it but it was simple to work up to +160/+748 at stock PL, even with fans left on Auto.

 

[Participant]

What’s your Timespy graphics score with that undervolt please?

Edit: Just gave it a go and I get 14,101. With my +105 core I get 14,488.

Maybe undervolting isn’t for me as my card runs cool anyway and my benchmark scores always seem to be better with the simple overclock.

No idea, I've never even heard of Timespy until today. I'll check it tomorrow anyway, noting that you're not convinced.

In my mind I'm overclocking the card but using less voltage / have lower temps, but will check that.

 

[SaBBz]

No idea, I've never even heard of Timespy until today. I'll check it tomorrow anyway, noting that you're not convinced.

In my mind I'm overclocking the card but using less voltage / have lower temps, but will check that.

Thanks. You can get the 3DMark demo for free on Steam, which includes Timespy.

I’m not saying that you aren’t getting a better score than stock, just that for me I get better scores with the brute force of a simple overclock using the core slider in afterburner.

 

[Rroff]

Coming to similar conclusions myself with my 3090.

At stock it maxes out at 62C, with a heavy OC, about 68C.

Tried undervolting and just ended up with lower scores in all benchmarks and the card ran at the same temp as at stock.

Will probably have another go at it but it was simple to work up to +160/+748 at stock PL, even with fans left on Auto.

Had similar with my 3070FE - after a lot of playing about the best results were simply whacking the power slider to max and giving it +135 on the core (originally said +150 but eventually found it wasn't 100% stable without backing it down a little). Undervolting accomplished nothing. Likewise mine maxes out about 68-70C so probably partly why undervolting doesn't accomplish much compared to the people who were seeing 70-80C at stock.

 

[Robert896r1]

one of the main reasons I went fe is to not support this habit.

 

[Rroff]

one of the main reasons I went fe is to not support this habit.

Same - £470 all said and done isn't an unfair price for a 3070 - maybe £100 on top of that for a high end cooler and decent factory OC - even taking the current situation into account £700 for a 3070 is disgusting.