Does overclocking the GPU improve performance in Retroarch?

[captain_obvious]

To my understanding emulation is a CPU intensive task and in my experience CPU overclocking works miracles making unplayable games playable. Maybe rendering 3D games at a higher resolution requires a GPU overclock. Have you tried it before? How did it go?

 

[hippy dave]

Depends on the system, won't do shit for 8/16 bit systems, may help systems with 3D rendering like you said. I think I used it for N64 with increased resolution to Switch native etc.

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

Essentially for 2d systems an overclock is near useless. For actual 3d systems it is useful for resolution up scaling

 

[cucholix]

GPU OC increase shader transfer speed alot in citra which increases performance, only tried Metroid 2 Returns tho.

 

[zenjiki]

Same experience as people above, personally don’t use shaders to see if GPU OC helps with shaders. But I definitely can notice the improvement in systems like Dreamcast and N64.

Also, I have a day 1 switch and been using sys-clk since it came out and no issues. Even with using OC pretty much daily, my battery surprisingly still averages at least 3hrs and more per charge.