Let us be precise. Let us be perfectly clear. There actually is little to no good reason to manually overclock a 50-series GPU’s core. These next-gen cores overclock themselves, and while you can push more power, especially with the MSI Gaming OC as it comes with a 12v-2×6 pin good for (ROFL) ~600 watts, you really are not going to get all that much extra performance. Extra power consumption? Extra heat? Extra noise? Sure, but not really all that much more pixel-crunching performance. This is for the simple fact that NIVIDAI does not want any x60Ti-class card to ever, even remotely, come close to the same generation’s x70-class performance levels… lest it ‘steal’ sales away from those higher priced cards. So, in classic Team Green fashion, they have limited things on how far you can push the power envelope. Though to be fair, this core goes like a scalded cat at ‘factory’ settings when it is paired with a fantastically good cooling solution like the 10th freaking generation Twin Frozr… and even writing that makes us feel old as we remember when “TwinFrozr” (did not have a space between the two words and yet) set the marketplace ablaze with up until then (nearly) unheard of levels of cooling performance.
In either case, you can push the power envelope up and get a surprisingly high increase in core frequencies… but to be blunt, one is better off spending some time on the memory side of the equation rather than the core’s power envelope. In classic MSI fashion, they have left the door open here and have not applied any factory overclock to the GDDR7 chips. Since these are Samsung GDDR7 ICs they do have a good bit of untapped headroom, and with very little effort you can widen that teeeeeny tinny 128-bit bus’s overall performance envelope nicely. It all just comes down to how hard you want to push the ICs. We are fairly conservative, so while we did transform them from 1750MHz into a flat 2K for testing… we probably would dial that back to 1850 or so for long-term usage. However, they were fully stable at 2K, and a flat 2K does translate into an easy ~12.3 percent memory bus width boost. Which in turn widens that narrow (by modern standards) 448GB/s bus into 512GB/s bus… which is a higher bandwidth than what the last gen ‘classic’ RTX 4070 (and its 192-bit bus) came with. Now that… that ain’t too shabby. A bit aggressive for long-term usage, but there certainly is something to be said for it!
Our concern is that you are going to shorten the lifespan of those Sammy ICs when you push past what they are set to at the factory. There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch… but for some, the shortened lifespan will still be longer than the expected usable lifespan, and it will be yanked, yeete,d and replaced long before memory corruption occurs. For others, the opposite will be true, and they want it to last for many, many years. So we recommend that when you are in doubt about how long you plan on using your shiny new 5060Ti is to leave this new small Beast From the East alone. Let it do its thing at ‘stock’ settings and enjoy its silent, and yet surprisingly peppy, performance for years and years to come… as this card really does give darn near its all right from the factory. But, with everything in like Your Mileage May Vary and MSI has made it rather easy to manually overclock. So if you want a rather easy ‘first time experience’, the MSI RTX 5060Ti 16G Gaming OC is a darn decent choice.
