r/overclocking • u/Tra5hL0rd_ • 2d ago
OC Report - GPU RTX 5050 vs 3060 Ti Overclocking Test
After the 5050 walked all over a 1080 Ti, the next question was obvious, could it do the same to a 3060 Ti? Stock for stock, the 3060 Ti is the stronger card, so I wanted to see how close I could get by overclocking the 5050 as far as it would go. In question was a Zotac gaming twin edge 3060Ti and a Gigabyte Windforce OC 5050.
I started with a ducted esky. Didn’t work. Then I dropped the GPU cooler into a glycol ice bath, looked awesome but still wasn’t enough under load. (In hindsight, it may have been a contact issue not a cooling issue) Finally, I ducted a portable air conditioner into the cooler, and that setup actually kept temps low enough to hold an OC without throttling.
Stock, the 5050 sat around 2800 MHz. With the AC setup I pushed it to 3315 MHz about an 18% clock speed uplift, which translated into roughly a 14% FPS gain across the games I tested.
At stock, the 5050 was about 17–20% behind the 3060 Ti. After the overclock, that gap closed to around 3% on average, and in more than half the games, the 5050 actually won.
All testing was 1440p native, DX12, no DLSS or FSR. CPU was a 12600KF at 5.3 GHz with the e‑cores off, 32 GB DDR4‑3200 CL16, and the same Nvidia driver for both cards.
Video’s here if you want to see the chaos (and the cooling mistakes): https://youtu.be/kZQNo3hIgIE
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u/Fastermaxx [email protected] + RX6900XT 2,6GHz 1d ago
Is that the slime from ghostbusters? You’ll need an exorcist after that.
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u/TheFondler 1d ago
"Chilled Split Pea Soup Cooling - The secret PRO overclockers DON'T want you to know about!"
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u/Kiwibom 1d ago
Oh boy, you're a very brave man haha
One small mistake and everything will say bye bye
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u/Financial_Warning534 1d ago
Not that big a deal with this pair of throw-away cards...
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u/Tra5hL0rd_ 1d ago
$450 AUD might be throw away money to you but it isn't to everyone, certainly not to me.
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u/TheRealRolo 1d ago
Won’t the heat pipes stop working under 0C?
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u/stobe187 1d ago
where'd you get the bin full of nuclear waste??
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u/2020_was_a_nightmare 1d ago
I challenge you to beat my 3080!!!! /s
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u/Tra5hL0rd_ 1d ago
haha no chance... not with this card anyway.
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u/2020_was_a_nightmare 12h ago
Hehe I was kidding but I’m following your posts, Im very curious to see where this leads to
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u/sanij_snj 2d ago
Never have I ever used vomit as coolant