As you can see in my charts, I ran some tests with MSI Afterburner’s OC Scanner. You don’t have to get your hands too dirty with GPU overclocking to achieve these results, either. That means an overall smoother gaming experience, even if the average frame rate is relatively unchanged. In Red Dead Redemption, the overclocked results show much higher minimum frame rates. Overclocking showed benefits elsewhere, too. That doesn’t sound like much, but the OC version meant the game would often run into the low 50s and sometimes even crack 60 fps. This is still extremely demanding without Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), and overclocking the Suprim X resulted in a solid 7.7% increase in performance. The exception was Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra Ray Tracing mode. You’re looking at around a 5% boost in Cyberpunk 2077 and only a 4% boost in Red Dead Redemption 2. For most games, overclocking the RTX 4090 isn’t worth it as the card can already hit well past 60 fps in the most demanding titles at 4K. Otherwise, the gains are much less stark.

It’s not game-changing, but pushing your RTX 4090 with enough cooling can result in higher gaming performance.Īt most, I saw a 9% improvement over the Founder Edition RTX 4090 with the Suprim X model and a manual overclock in Gears Tactics. Although I didn’t see big improvements, pushing the Suprim X did provide some tangible increases in performance. Nvidia’s recent cards are built to run as fast as they can out of the box, so the performance gains from GPU overclocking are usually slim to none. Thankfully, MSI includes a GPU support bracket like it normally does with Suprim X cards, as well as a specially designed Suprim X mousepad. MSI’s Suprim X is 13.2 inches long, 5.6 inches wide, and 3.1 inches thick, taking up three slots and a bit of change in your case. It’s a monster graphics card that houses a monster GPU, and it comes with a size to match. Although this card comes factory overclocked, it also includes a dual BIOS switch that allows you to put it in Silent mode when you don’t need all the power it has to offer. Even then, MSI’s Suprim X comes with a boost out of the factory with a 2.82GHz clock speed in the games I tested. Similarly, Nvidia says the max boost clock speed of the RTX 4090 is 2.52GHz on the Founder’s Edition model, but I measured 2.76GHz at the card’s highest point.

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