Finally we come to manual overclocking. There's no real headroom here with the 5600 XT, as its BIOS update effectively means the card is already at its limits. Still, we maximised the core, memory and power sliders and tested the results.
Average clock speed under load
Average clock speed increased by 41MHz, or just 2%.
Games
Not surprisingly, adding an extra 2% to the GPU frequency, with a 6% memory overclock, doesn't do a whole lot for our frame rates – Gears 5 saw performance improve by 4.5%, while the figure was 3% in Metro Exodus as 2% in Total War: Three Kingdoms.