ASUS TUF Gaming X3 Radeon RX 5700 XT EVO Review

Overclocking

Starting in the default “gaming mode” we see the TUF Gaming X3 RX 5700XT EVO settle in around 2058MHz with core temps hovering in the mid 60C range, and a supposed power draw of about 175W.

We’ll do our overclocking section with the card shifted into OC mode, which gives us the above steady-state readings from GPUz.

OC mode gives a small but noticeable jump over the stock score of 9456.

One of the next things we like to do is crank the fan up and max out the power target to fully unleash the GPU to do what it thinks it needs to do. ASUS allows a +50% increase to the power limit on the TUF Gaming X3 5700XT.

After running Time Spy again, we see that the card was indeed power limited, and raising the power limit nets a great jump in score to 9882.

We slowly raise the memory in +50Mhz increments to check stability, but quickly run out of slider at +300MHz in GPU Tweak II. This nets us an effective clock speed of 15.2GHz, a decent jump over the stock 14GHz.

Combined with a higher power limit, increasing the memory speed again gets us a noticeable jump in Time Spy score.

The final thing we can do is go after the GPU Core Clock, and we do it in the same fashion as memory, going up in small 10MHz increments, but we again max out the slider before running into instability.

Even though the slider says +50MHz or 2150MHz overall speed, the TUF Gaming X3 settles in at 2105MHz, or about 30MHz higher.

For little more effort than just maxing out all the sliders in GPU Tweak II, we get a cumulative score increase of 672 points or 7.1%. Not too shabby for about 5 seconds worth of work.