AMD OverDrive Technology. Key points on overclocking a video card

If you cannot see your life without computer games, and you own a video card from AMD and want games to work better on your computer, then you have the opportunity to “overclock” the video card using the special OverDrive technology, which is available in the work utility with AMD Radeon Settings video card. Now we will tell you how to use OverDrive technology and explain the main points when working with it. How is AMD OverDrive technology useful?

• Provides the ability to quickly configure and create profiles for each application (game) separately.
  
• There are settings to adjust the fan speed on the video card and power consumption.
  
• There are settings for controlling the frequency of the GPU and memory frequency, which can be adjusted very simply with the existing interface.
  

How to overclock a video card using AMD OverDrive?

Through Global Settings go to tab Global OverDrive Technology.



Here we see several areas with sliders and sensors:
Red area: Sensors that display fan speed, graphics card load, GPU temperature, and amount of memory used.
Blue area: Graphical display of power consumption and used GPU frequency.
Green area: An expanded view of settings for adjusting the operation of the GPU.





Let's now move directly to the settings themselves. What and how should you do to overclock your video card using OverDrive? Everything here is simple to the point of banality: using the existing settings and sensors, change the parameters a little bit (gradually increase the GPU frequency and memory frequency by several units), while constantly checking the load on the video card and FPS in the game that you are using as a reference to check performance improvements.



To check FPS, we recommend installing the application Fraps. This program is quite easy to use, and it does not load the system, which allows you to get reliable results on the number of frames per second in a particular game. The results may vary on different video cards. In general, with a slight overclock you can achieve an increase of 3-4 FPS. At the same time, do not forget to check the condition of the video card. If you notice slight hangs in the system after overclocking, then this is a good sign to return the state of the sliders a little back.