GTX 1050 Ti ODDITY Edition

[Bobobert]

Hello there. Just opening this thread for us to investigate this card. The card is a Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti that I use for my esports rig, it's paired with a Ryzen 2600. The funny thing is the clocks it reaches by default. Since I bought it I haven't changed the bios or any setting but the card in every sensor software reaches 1720 MHz while using the 3D.
By the temperatures it reaches doing it at 3DMark; 65°C, one could said I got lucky with the gpu lottery. But, Why does the clock goes up to 1700MHz without any configuration? Or is this a trick from the vendor from the firmware? 
I though it will be interesting to discuss it, and maybe run more test to see if it's legitimate running at the shown speed.

[Fasauceome]

It's called GPU boost. If there's power and thermal overhead, it boosts automatically. AMD does it too, and it's pretty great since it just gives you a free performance boost even if you don't know how or don't care to overclock.

[Turtle Rig]

4 minutes ago, Bobobert said:

Hello there. Just opening this thread for us to investigate this card. The card is a Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti that I use for my esports rig, it's paired with a Ryzen 2600. The funny thing is the clocks it reaches by default. Since I bought it I haven't changed the bios or any setting but the card in every sensor software reaches 1720 MHz while using the 3D.
By the temperatures it reaches doing it at 3DMark; 65°C, one could said I got lucky with the gpu lottery. But, Why does the clock goes up to 1700MHz without any configuration? Or is this a trick from the vendor from the firmware? 
I though it will be interesting to discuss it, and maybe run more test to see if it's legitimate running at the shown speed.

If in the nVidia panel the power magenment is set to optimal power, then in windows your speeds get underclocked to save power and wattage usage.  As soon as it detects some D3D or a game it clocks it accordingly.  As far as clock speeds Im not sure if that gigabyte card you got is OCed out of the box.  Actually 1700Mhz is low for core speed.  You should be able to do 2000Mhz if Im not mistaken.  but OCing the VRAM is where the performance gains will really come up.

[Jurrunio]

Nvidia GPU boost. Most cards run 200-300MHz higher than their factory base clocks when it steps in, but there are some I've seen that happily does 400MHz extra.

 

It is quite temperature sensitive though, you lose frequency as it gets hot.