RTX 3080 / 3090 Undervolting | 100W Less = Same Performance?

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[JustRuda]

Undervolting makes a huge difference... My EVGA FTW3 RTX 3080 lost 90W in power consumption. I really appreciate your tips on MHz/mV. It saved me a lot of time.

[PaulieK]

This has been great. My 3080 was running up to 77C in certain games but the undervolt combined with a slight fan curve adjustment got it down to 65° max. Less power and less noise as well. Thanks!

[anorax]

You've converted me to the joys of undervolting. Did this on my RTX 3090 and saved 80 watts and reduced a large amount of heat. Best part is it has made almost no difference to framerates and in some cases the framerate is actually a lot more stable.

[CorpseExplosion]

Really glad you did this thank you. Very helpful!

[chasboyo]

Main point of video (for me): 6:26

Tells about general clock that gives noticeable improvements without sacrificing performance.

[javi]

You are a genius, thanks to you I have managed to eliminate the noise of the coil and almost completely the noise of the fans. In return I have only lost a few fps which does not really affect my gaming experience! Thanks!!! You don't really need a water cooling system !!!

[vigvaryb]

I don't even care about the gpu, I just wanna watch vids in this quality with this guy talking

[ishy_exe]

SM580 user here: This is the news I've been waiting for. Thanks for sharing your undervolting numbers as well--very helpful!

[ronnie]

I am glad you made a video about underclocking and also gave us results and comparisons, very well made. My GTX 1060 Strix is running at 2100MHz with 1063mv and 4400MHz on the VRAM. This is my profile for the maximum performance, I also have a energy saving profile with 1710MHz at 800mv + VRAM OCed at 4400MHz and a balanced profile ehich is basically a optimized stock setting (2000MHz at 960mv, 4400MHz VRAM). I also optimized the fan curve, it is quieter and doesn't get warmer than 66°C, power consumption is also less with balaced profile. :)

[reavl]

3:21, guys apply every data point here in a curve and you'll get a nice curve, i went from default clocks on my TUF 3080 OC at 1890-1980mhz while volting 100mv less on each mhz, using 10W less power at max I achieved a stable clock around 2000mhz (1980-2040mhz). My temps also went like 10 degrees down. Its crazy how i only ever saw core clock speeds over 2000mhz once in a blue moon with a totally cold start, and now its just consistency over 2000mhz even after hours of load with the undervolt.

[dmtphone]

Undervolting was the best decision I made. Got a little over 15% bump in my vega 64 performance while lowering temps and noise. Been running the same uv/oc for over a year now. From now on I'll try undervolting with all my future gpus

[oliverrrrrrrrrr]

Seeing a new video from this channel always makes my day! 😄 Can't wait to recieve my 3080 before the end of the month.

[gen]

Cheers for this. Have overclocked and undervolted my 3070ti and got 1950MHz at 900mV - up from 1770MHz boost clock. Have been playing Control at 1440p Ultra with Ultra RTX on and had been stable for a period of 3 or so hours of gameplay. The temps went down from 80 degrees max to 73 degrees max and the card doesn't sound like it's going to take off.

[Gozzima]

Thanks for this simple undervolting guide. It worked perfectly on my new 3080 ti FE with 850mV for 1920MHz which was the stable frequency with factory settings with power reduced from 340W to 305W and -4°C of temperature with the same custom fan curve and less noise.😀

[hokopl]

Thanks for the tutorial.
Here is my results with i7-6700k overclocked to 4, 5 GHz, and after 30 minutes of Heaven benchmark. All data was taken from HWinfo, and power draw measured from the socket using power meter
RTX 3070 Ti
- Stock
GPU max Boost : 1935Mhz
Voltage : 1.081 mV
Max temp - 77
Hot Spot temp - 87
Max fan speed - 1684 RPM
Heaven Benchmark 4k score - 1325
Power usage - 380W


RTX 3070 Ti
- UV
GPU max Boost - 2010 Mhz
Voltage - 0.950 mV
Max temp - 70
Hot Spot temp - 80
Max fan speed - 1438 RPM
Heaven Benchmark 4k score - 1387
Power usage - 320W

[vaynardw]

This kind of content is what im looking for, hope you will keep doing this as series with future gpu

[Bennedict]

Instead of dragging the entire curve down, you can instead press shift while highlighting the curve from the preferred voltage to the highest one, click on that preferred voltage point, press shift+enter and then enter again. Now all the other voltage point higher than the one you click will have the exact same clock speed as your preferred one.

[andreasotto]

Nice! Until today, I only used an adapted curve done by the OC Scanner feature, but with your suggested settings applied to my 3080ti FE, I was able to raise the TS graphics score by 2.1% with a higher stable core clock and lower temps.

[marcgeler]

Nice guide thank you.
I have a Msi Rtx 3080 Trio Gaming Z. It now runs on 850mV at 1905mhz and consumes a maximum of 280W. On the 1st floor it goes up to 380W

[daniels]

Thanks! Have a 3080 TUF in a A4-H2O and it’s almost silent now without significant performance loss.. Great guide!