
At this stage it's not necessary to touch anything else in the app. What we're interested in is the small bar graph icon to the left of the core clock slider. It's a bit disappointing as Precision has a much nicer interface than Afterburner, but we'll get back to using Precision a bit later.Īfter you've installed and opened Afterburner you'll see a bunch of dials and sliders, bit of a cluttered interface but that's fine. Had a few crash issues with the early version of Precision X1 which we assume will get fixed, whereas Afterburner seemed to work every time. We tried EVGA Precision X1 and MSI Afterburner, both beta versions, and for the Scanner functionality we found Afterburner to be more reliable. To use Nvidia Scanner, you'll need to grab the latest versions of any overclocking utility. One-click overclocking has been around for a while, but this time Nvidia has built a framework for doing it rather than letting board partners create their own algorithms, which the chip maker says is better tuned for their GPUs, more accurate, and more reliable. The first thing we'll be doing is going through what's potentially the easiest method of overclocking your RTX card: using Nvidia's Scanner. But the card we're using doesn't really matter, the steps you see here will apply to all RTX cards. Both come 'factory overclocked' in some sense compared to base-level board partner models, but that OC is quite small at just 90 MHz on the core, and nothing on the memory. The cards we're using today are the Founders Edition RTX 2080 Ti and Founders Edition RTX 2080. We'll also be showing you how Nvidia's new Scanner API works and just how good their one-click overclocking can be, comparing to a manual overclock, while also showing you how to do said manual overclock. To start off this guide we'll be going through our standard methodology for overclocking Nvidia graphics cards and specifically the new RTX series. Today we're going to be diving a little deeper into overclocking the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080, covering a whole range of things from how to overclock these cards, to typical achievable clock speeds, to performance and power consumption.
