We found that higher memory clocks gained significant performance over a slightly higher core overclock. We found that as long as the the Power and Temperature limits are maximized, it will not throttle even with the Silent BIOS profile.Īfter much testing, we settled on a 2.5% overclock or +40MHz to the core for a 1615MHz boost, with memory clocks overclocked +175MHz to 2175MHz. A few details of our original overclocking may be found here. The $279 Red Devil version of the RX 590 8GB is factory overclocked up to its maximum boost speeds of 1576MHz, up from the reference 1545MHz. This time, we will overclock the EVGA GTX 1060 SC and the Red Devil RX 590 manually each as far as they will go to see where they stand in relation to each other when fully overclocked. Today, we have optimized our overclocks with all performance options set to their highest limits to get the most performance from each card.Īt stock, the PowerColor overclocked Red Devil-clocked RX 590 won decisively over the EVGA GTX 1060 SC 6GB. This overclocking showdown is a follow-up to the PowerColor Red Devil RX 590 8GB versus the EVGA GTX 1060 SC 6GB evaluation yesterday. the EVGA GTX 1060 SC 6GB Overclocking Showdown with 37 Games

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