Overclocking the Manli RTX 5080 for Neverness to Everness
Overclocking is basically a war against instability. On VBIOS 1.2b, I used MSI Afterburner to push the limits. I initially pushed the core to 2820MHz - 2880MHz, peaking at 2910MHz, but the system would black screen the moment a complex lighting scene hit. It was infuriating. After a dozen failures, I realized pushing frequency without a proper voltage curve is suicide. I dropped the core voltage offset from 0 to -0.050V and capped the power limit at 90%. GamePP showed that while peak clocks dipped, frame variance stayed within ±3 frames. Unfortunately, this triggered a slight downclocking mechanism, making performance about 1% lower than stock in some areas. Even now, I get an occasional driver reset, proving there's a hard red line between frequency and stability in this driver version.
