diff --git a/asv_bench/benchmarks/frame_methods.py b/asv_bench/benchmarks/frame_methods.py
index 11b30ce601be6..33fbc23085e23 100644
--- a/asv_bench/benchmarks/frame_methods.py
+++ b/asv_bench/benchmarks/frame_methods.py
@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@
 from .pandas_vb_common import tm
 
 
+class Clip:
+    params = [
+        ["float64", "Float64", "float64[pyarrow]"],
+    ]
+    param_names = ["dtype"]
+
+    def setup(self, dtype):
+        data = np.random.randn(100_000, 10)
+        df = DataFrame(data, dtype=dtype)
+        self.df = df
+
+    def time_clip(self, dtype):
+        self.df.clip(-1.0, 1.0)
+
+
 class GetNumericData:
     def setup(self):
         self.df = DataFrame(np.random.randn(10000, 25))
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.1.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.1.0.rst
index b83f317814ad9..aeaafbc4c125d 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.1.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.1.0.rst
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Deprecations
 
 Performance improvements
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
+- Performance improvement in :meth:`DataFrame.clip` and :meth:`Series.clip` (:issue:`51472`)
 -
 
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index 33dc62564d34e..f25ff81e375fc 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -7998,24 +7998,33 @@ def _clip_with_scalar(self, lower, upper, inplace: bool_t = False):
         ):
             raise ValueError("Cannot use an NA value as a clip threshold")
 
-        result = self
-        mask = isna(self._values)
+        mgr = self._mgr
 
-        with np.errstate(all="ignore"):
+        if inplace:
+            # cond (for putmask) identifies values to be updated.
+            # exclude boundary as values at the boundary should be no-ops.
             if upper is not None:
-                subset = self <= upper
-                result = result.where(subset, upper, axis=None, inplace=False)
+                cond = self > upper
+                mgr = mgr.putmask(mask=cond, new=upper, align=False)
             if lower is not None:
-                subset = self >= lower
-                result = result.where(subset, lower, axis=None, inplace=False)
-
-        if np.any(mask):
-            result[mask] = np.nan
+                cond = self < lower
+                mgr = mgr.putmask(mask=cond, new=lower, align=False)
+        else:
+            # cond (for where) identifies values to be left as-is.
+            # include boundary as values at the boundary should be no-ops.
+            mask = isna(self)
+            if upper is not None:
+                cond = mask | (self <= upper)
+                mgr = mgr.where(other=upper, cond=cond, align=False)
+            if lower is not None:
+                cond = mask | (self >= lower)
+                mgr = mgr.where(other=lower, cond=cond, align=False)
 
+        result = self._constructor(mgr)
         if inplace:
             return self._update_inplace(result)
         else:
-            return result
+            return result.__finalize__(self)
 
     @final
     def _clip_with_one_bound(self, threshold, method, axis, inplace):
diff --git a/pandas/tests/copy_view/test_clip.py b/pandas/tests/copy_view/test_clip.py
index 3eacd62714ab6..30140ed4ddb6d 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/copy_view/test_clip.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/copy_view/test_clip.py
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ def test_clip_inplace_reference(using_copy_on_write):
     view = df[:]
     df.clip(lower=2, inplace=True)
 
-    # Clip not actually inplace right now but could be
-    assert not np.shares_memory(get_array(df, "a"), arr_a)
-
     if using_copy_on_write:
+        assert not np.shares_memory(get_array(df, "a"), arr_a)
         assert df._mgr._has_no_reference(0)
         assert view._mgr._has_no_reference(0)
         tm.assert_frame_equal(df_copy, view)
+    else:
+        assert np.shares_memory(get_array(df, "a"), arr_a)
 
 
 def test_clip_inplace_reference_no_op(using_copy_on_write):
@@ -28,13 +28,12 @@ def test_clip_inplace_reference_no_op(using_copy_on_write):
     view = df[:]
     df.clip(lower=0, inplace=True)
 
+    assert np.shares_memory(get_array(df, "a"), arr_a)
+
     if using_copy_on_write:
-        assert np.shares_memory(get_array(df, "a"), arr_a)
         assert not df._mgr._has_no_reference(0)
         assert not view._mgr._has_no_reference(0)
         tm.assert_frame_equal(df_copy, view)
-    else:
-        assert not np.shares_memory(get_array(df, "a"), arr_a)
 
 
 def test_clip_inplace(using_copy_on_write):
@@ -42,8 +41,7 @@ def test_clip_inplace(using_copy_on_write):
     arr_a = get_array(df, "a")
     df.clip(lower=2, inplace=True)
 
-    # Clip not actually inplace right now but could be
-    assert not np.shares_memory(get_array(df, "a"), arr_a)
+    assert np.shares_memory(get_array(df, "a"), arr_a)
 
     if using_copy_on_write:
         assert df._mgr._has_no_reference(0)
diff --git a/pandas/tests/frame/methods/test_clip.py b/pandas/tests/frame/methods/test_clip.py
index f8d9adf44dbc2..da13711d607c5 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/frame/methods/test_clip.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/frame/methods/test_clip.py
@@ -164,3 +164,10 @@ def test_clip_with_na_args(self, float_frame):
         result = df.clip(lower=t, axis=0)
         expected = DataFrame({"col_0": [9, -3, 0, 6, 5], "col_1": [2, -4, 6, 8, 3]})
         tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
+    def test_clip_int_data_with_float_bound(self):
+        # GH51472
+        df = DataFrame({"a": [1, 2, 3]})
+        result = df.clip(lower=1.5)
+        expected = DataFrame({"a": [1.5, 2.0, 3.0]})
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)