Overclocking your graphics card can improve its performance by 5% to as much as 15% (or more), depending on the particular card model. Of course, as with any overclocking, care should be taken to avoid running your GPU at unsafe settings. But if you have one of the best graphics cards and you’re looking to eke out a bit more performance, we’ll discuss how we go about overclocking and determining “safe” settings.
Before overclocking, it’s important to get a baseline measurement of how your graphics card performs. You want to be able to see how much faster your PC runs after tuning, after all — if performance doesn’t improve, you’ll want to know.
