Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Should you manually overclock a Ryzen APU or always use curve optimizer?

Well, it depends. Take this Ryzen 5 8600G for example.

It's stock maximum 1 core boost frequency is 5 GHz.

But with a manual overclock, it can run all cores at 5.1 GHz.

Just using Curve Optimizer will not give better performance.

Unless we also set a +200 MHz Boost Clock Override.

Because then our single-core boost frequency is 5200 MHz

And then we get better performance than with our manual overclock