Gtx 1060 isn't boosting while folding

[sazrocks]

So I decided to start folding recently, and I noticed that while my gpu was at 99/100% load, the clock speed never goes above about 1600 (during gaming it boosts to about ~2000) and afterburner reports that this is because of the "No Load Limit", even though, as stated above, the gpu is being utilized 100%

[FloRolf]

How Long has it been folding?

if it's just at 0.00% right now (which usually takes a while on your first WU) it might just haven't kicked in.

[sazrocks]

1 minute ago, FloRolf said:

How Long has it been folding?

if it's just at 0.00% right now (which usually takes a while on your first WU) it might just haven't kicked in.

It's about 60% through.

[Imakuni]

13 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

So I decided to start folding recently, and I noticed that while my gpu was at 99/100% load, the clock speed never goes above about 1600 (during gaming it boosts to about ~2000) and afterburner reports that this is because of the "No Load Limit", even though, as stated above, the gpu is being utilized 100%

Get Nvidia inspector, open the OC tab, click on the dropdown menu at the top (the one that says performance level) and then take a print of the whole app. I wanna check a few things...

[Hackentosher]

Or just manually overclock it.

[sazrocks]

2 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Get Nvidia inspector, open the OC tab, click on the dropdown menu at the top (the one that says performance level) and then take a print of the whole app. I wanna check a few things...

Ok I'll do that tomorrow afternoon, I don't have access to my computer right now.

[FloRolf]

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6 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

It's about 60% through.

 

mh okay...

 

This dude right here just had to reinstall his Drivers but difference to you is that he also couldnt reach boost clock in games.

This other guy here had to uninstall Precision X for some weird reason and then it worked.

http://forums.evga.com/Locking-Boost-Frequency-m2232893.aspx

 

[Teddy07]

Dont worry happens sometimes to my gtx 1070 too. Its because nvidias cards arent made for folding purposes in the first place. They do it fine but its not their purpose

[sazrocks]

18 hours ago, FloRolf said:

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This other guy here had to uninstall Precision X for some weird reason and then it worked.

http://forums.evga.com/Locking-Boost-Frequency-m2232893.aspx

 

No change.

18 hours ago, Imakuni said:

Get Nvidia inspector, open the OC tab, click on the dropdown menu at the top (the one that says performance level) and then take a print of the whole app. I wanna check a few things...

Here:

 

[Imakuni]

1 minute ago, sazrocks said:

No change.

Here:

 

AHA. Good and bad news here.

 

Good news: Just as I thought, your card is going into P2 rather than P0. When doing compute work, it won't trigger the full boost state. In a sense, this is kinda expected, given that the same thing happens on Maxwell (and Pascal is just Maxwell on steroids). If you take a look at your memory, you'll see that it's running slower than what it is supposed to, just like the 9xx cards.

 

Bad news: Unlike Maxwell, however, the boost clock seems to be lower too. With 9xx, only the memory runs slower, the core clock stays the same as the P0 state.

 

And more bad news here: there's nothing you can do about it, as far as changing the P state goes. Unless you do some driver hacking, it'll just use P2, period.

 

You can try to "OC" the card back to the correct value, if you want. Try OCing P0 and see if that works (which I don't expect it will, but...) or if that fails, change the dropdown to P2 and try to OC there. Flashing a custom Bios with a modified boost table will be an option as well, once "Pascal Bios tweaker" eventually gets released to the world.