Tears of the Kingdom on a Overclocked LCD Steam Deck (Ram/CPU/GPU/TDP)

Tested at uncapped frame rate, 40fps, 30fps. 30fps sometimes freezes for a moment while closing the map/inventory. I recommend uncapping the frame rate in shrines or face massive input lag.


Overclocks are as follows:

3200mhz Ram overlock = 6400mbps or OLED RAM Speeds, this is up to the RAM in your steam deck and not every deck can can do this.

Messing with your Ram overlock and timings can easily brick your steam deck if you don’t do your research and aren’t careful.

CPU OC = 4000mhz (Stock is 3500)
GPU OC = 2100 mhz (Stock is 1600)
RAM OC = 3200mhz/6400mbps (Stock is 5500 I believe)
TDP = 23 WATTS (Stock is 15 Watts)

CPU UV -20
GPU UV -20
SOC OV +30

OC= Overclock
UV = Undervolt
OV = Overvolt

The SOC requires overvolting for overclocked ram speeds to work.

For TOTK I recommend using the emulator that shall not be named for steam deck, the final EA build will do. I also recommend a handful of mods that you can find by googling TOTK mod collection, really great stuff there. I also recommend a GPU cap of 1000mhz and let the device scale the CPU, or set it to 3500mhz or above with an OC, as well the Yuzu settings shown in the video. Also, your steam deck WILL get hotter by pushing its limits, I recommend a thermal pad, external jasux fan or backplate or both, a custom fan curve in fantastical plugin, whatever you can do to cool the system.

All in all, I’ve seen massive performance gains in everything I’ve tried since overclocking my steam deck, and if you know what you are doing I seriously recommend it.

Tested on: Steam OS Preview BIOS 131 LCD Deck