The integrated graphics inside a CPU are often crying out for more memory bandwidth - compared to high-end discrete graphics, that have north of 200 GB/s of bandwidth, an APU sometimes has to deal with 12.5 GB/s (in a badly configured system) up to around 50 GB/s (dual-channel and overclocked) - so driving up the DRAM speeds and decreasing latencies has obvious knock on effects for the gaming experience. For a Ryzen APU, overclocking the Vega graphics cores could really benefit a user struggling to make steady frame rates in certain titles and thus could potentially make the new budget focused AMD Ryzen 2000 series APUs an even better option than previously thought. With APU overclocking, the added element of overclocking is in the integrated graphics, and there is also focus on the DRAM.

This can have a couple of advantages, including decreasing video rendering time and improving gaming performance in titles that rely on raw CPU horsepower to drive up the frame rates.Ī standard APU setup: MSI B350I Pro AC motherboard, AMD stock cooler, G.Skill memory The basic reasoning behind CPU overclocking is to increase the clock frequency of the processor from the manufacturers default speeds with the aim to increase the compute performance of your system.

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