I'm waiting unitl March before I even think about it.Thanks for the great write-up! As always, these end up being my reference templates for OCing whatever I end up with. Very torn on whether to invest the extra $500 for an AIO card like the Suprim SOC (read a couple of reviews and very, very similar performance-wise, just can be cooled more), or anything else for that matter. These FE cards seem amazing for their engineering and cooling capabilities. The next trick will be to try and snag one.
My question is, are there larger gains from CPU increase or memory increase? Can you decrease one to allow more power limit to increase the other? For example, if the GPU is the bottleneck, can mem clocks be reduced to increase power limit available to the GPU to eek out some extra MHZ?
That makes things more complex if the GPU clocks cap out at a certain place, especially if that is before you've reached the full power target for the card. If the GPU is only going to go to 3ghz and that's it regardless of any extra power limit on the card, might as well increase the mem clocks too.Yes, GDDR7 like GDDR6X takes a lot of power, reducing memory allows the GPU to sustain a higher clock, HOWEVER, there is a cap based on the bin, so you hit a point that the GPU just can't do that clock speed, thus Voltage is needed to overcome that, and that increases power again by a lot on these GPUs in this node.