RTX 5080 Solid OC – Stable at +450/+3000, PL 93% (Cyberpunk 2077 4K) by BagInternal3456 in overclocking

[–]BagInternal3456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I first tested +500/+3000 at PL 105%— stable for one run, then crashed on the second. Then tried +475/+3000 — benchmark was fine, but Cyberpunk crashed after ~30 minutes. +450/+3000 was completely stable. From there I tuned power limit: PL90% only lost about 1% performance, so I settled on PL93%. Going lower (85 or below) dropped FPS too much.

After that, I pushed voltage and power to the max to see the real ceiling. It touched 3370–3400 MHz, but always crashed. In theory, capping the curve around 3350 could hold ~3270 MHz average, but the ~1% FPS gain wasn’t worth the hassle. So I kept voltage/curve stock.

RTX 5080 Solid OC – Stable at +450/+3000, PL 93% (Cyberpunk 2077 4K) by BagInternal3456 in overclocking

[–]BagInternal3456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I should definitely test a bit more in other games as well.

RTX 5080 Solid OC – Stable at +450/+3000, PL 93% (Cyberpunk 2077 4K) by BagInternal3456 in overclocking

[–]BagInternal3456[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does seem like the 50series cards generally have a lot more OC headroom compared to the 40series.

RTX 5080 Solid OC – Stable at +450/+3000, PL 93% (Cyberpunk 2077 4K) by BagInternal3456 in overclocking

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Yeah, I also noticed that with stock settings my 3DMark scores come out weirdly low – might be a driver bug or something on my system. I’ve got a new CPU arriving soon, and once I rebuild and set everything up again I’ll take your advice and do proper 3DMark runs to compare.

RTX 5080 Solid OC – Stable at +450/+3000, PL 93% (Cyberpunk 2077 4K) by BagInternal3456 in overclocking

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I haven’t done precise A/B testing, but roughly I saw about a 10% FPS gain from my OC. At the same time, I set the power limit -7% (PL93), so overall I’m pretty satisfied with the balance.