A bold experiment showed that overclocking the Radeon 780M makes no sense
An enthusiast known under the nickname SkatterBencher set out to overclock the Radeon 780M – graphics core integrated into the Ryzen 7 8700G processor. By increasing the DDR5-6400 RAM frequency to 8000 MHz, it was able to increase the GPU frequency to a peak of 3.15 GHz (and 3086 MHz constant frequency). After that, the enthusiast tested the graphics in Geekbench 6, 3Dmark and games. The average performance improvement was 37% – and this is quite a lot for an iGPU.
But there is also the other side of the coin, which shows that such overclocking is completely meaningless. It turned out that an increase in frequency is accompanied by a sharp increase in power consumption. So, with manual overclocking to 3.1 GHz, the power “shoots out.” up to 156 W! That is, the APU consumption even exceeds the consumption of the GeForce RTX 4060. An increase in power consumption by three times with a performance increase of 37% makes overclocking the Radeon 780M completely pointless.