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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Very cool!
Currently waiting for a 2080Ti w/Eiswolf AIO to arrive, can’t wait to see what heights I can get that thing to.
Very very cool will check out the video after work!
That RTX 5050 is really putting in some crazy work, how much more of a beating can that tiny GPU die even take at this point? Must be artifacting so bad at those clocks surely? The silicone wasn’t even good enough to make it as a 5060 so how long can it sustain such high overclocks? It’s pure craziness but I sort of feel proud of it though, plucky little bottom of the barrel 5050 working so hard!
Edit, I was the one on YouTube commenting on the 1080ti video about how I would love to see you mess with the 5060ti and push it to it’s limits, 3060ti was my old card so seeing this is kinda cool. Keep up the amazing work it’s really interesting to see.
And what about power consumption?
https://preview.redd.it/9igdaboategf1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4a58edbf4d41a6889a020047c71f40ca6bc4a27
never seen someone dump a GPU in this shit…..
These experiments are super cool. I especially like all your unorthodox cooling solutions.
OPs 3060 is the definition of old is gold
We definitely need more discussion about the overclockability of blackwell cards. Great work!
Upvote because green