I've never used MSI afterburner but I've overclocked 1060's to +1500 mem clock (9500MHZ total) using the nvidia-settings tool from nvidia on linux.
Can you share how you did this with nvidia-settings? Did you use GUI or command line? Do you have examples of command line or xorg.conf file entries? I had limited luck with this in Linux. I assume you're using latest nvidia drivers or an older version?
I'm using the latest nvidia drivers (381.22 I think).
I use the command line but I believe there is a GUI.
For some reason nvidia-settings needs an xserver running, I use the following command to generate an xorg.conf with "dummy" screens.. found it somewhere online:
nvidia-xconfig -a --allow-empty-initial-configuration --cool-bits=28 --use-display-device="DFP-0" --connected-monitor="DFP-0"
You need to run this whenever you add a new GPU. I think there are higher cool bits settings but not sure what they are needed for.
Now you need to startx. If you are doing this over SSH you need to add
allowed_users=anybody
to
/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
. You can check X is running on each card by using
nvidia-smi
.
You can now use nvida-settings to over/underclock your GPU.
For example, the following would overclock my first GPU's [gpu:0] memory by 1500MHZ.
export DISPLAY=:0
nvidia-settings -c $DISPLAY -a [gpu:0]/GPUMemoryTransferRateOffset[3]=1500
I export DISPLAY and also provide the -c option to nvidia-settings as it sometimes seems to fail without both.
There are a bunch of other attributes you can change. I change my power limit using nvidia-smi but perhaps you can do it with nvidia-settings as well.
Linux tools double readings compared to Afterburner so that's +750 on Windows
That is very confusing. Which tool gives the "real" value, afterburner or the nvidia tools?