2080 TI memory clock

[Olivia Moore]

Hey guys. I just recently installed afterburner to control my 2080 TI fan curve. I noticed that my memory clock boost to 7000 while in game. Is that a normal speed?

 

Also I noticed that sometimes my gpu boost and memory clocks will randomly spike for a second then go back down to normal while browsing the web. Is this a bug in software?

[Mira Yurizaki]

4 minutes ago, Olivia Moore said:

Hey guys. I just recently installed afterburner to control my 2080 TI fan curve. I noticed that my memory clock boost to 7000 while in game. Is that a normal speed?

The short answer is yes.

 

The long answer is, it's complicated. I believe MSI Afterburner is making assumptions about memory speed, because the effective memory speed is 14,000 MHz. But it's "DDR" memory so supposedly it's really operating at 7,000 MHz (there's two transfers per clock transition). However I'm also getting reports (like from GPU-z) that the actual operating speed of the memory is 1,750 MHz.

 

4 minutes ago, Olivia Moore said:

Also I noticed that sometimes my gpu boost and memory clocks will randomly spike for a second then go back down to normal while browsing the web. Is this a bug in software?

No. Your web browser likely has hardware acceleration enabled. So if there's something that's a bit more intensive to process, like a video, the video card's speed will ramp up from idle clocks until said thing is either done or goes off screen.

[Olivia Moore]

4 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

The short answer is yes.

 

The long answer is, it's complicated. I believe MSI Afterburner is making assumptions about memory speed, because the effective memory speed is 14,000 MHz. But it's "DDR" memory so supposedly it's really operating at 7,000 MHz (there's two transfers per clock transition). However I'm also getting reports (like from GPU-z) that the actual operating speed of the memory is 1,750 MHz.

 

No. Your web browser likely has hardware acceleration enabled. So if there's something that's a bit more intensive to process, like a video, the video card's speed will ramp up from idle clocks until said thing is either done or goes off screen.

So is their anything I should be worried about on either of these two points?

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Olivia Moore said:

So is their anything I should be worried about on either of these two points?

On the games spectrum, if you're playing a relatively intensive game and things don't ramp up, that's a bad sign.

 

On the light tasks spectrum, if the clock speed doesn't ramp back down to idle and you're certain the thing that could be using it is not there, that might be a problem. Though Task Manager will say which apps are using the GPU.

[Olivia Moore]

13 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

On the games spectrum, if you're playing a relatively intensive game and things don't ramp up, that's a bad sign.

 

On the light tasks spectrum, if the clock speed doesn't ramp back down to idle and you're certain the thing that could be using it is not there, that might be a problem. Though Task Manager will say which apps are using the GPU.

The clock speeds only ramp up for about a second then immediately go back to normal. Mostly when I open a program or a web browser

[jones177]

4 minutes ago, Olivia Moore said:

The clock speeds only ramp up for about a second then immediately go back to normal. Mostly when I open a program or a web browser

After reading your post I started Firefox and it shot the memory clock to 7200mhz from 450 on my 2080 ti. So I think it is normal.

[Olivia Moore]

3 minutes ago, jones177 said:

After reading your post I started Firefox and it shot the memory clock to 7200mhz from 450 on my 2080 ti. So I think it is normal.

And did it go back to normal speed almost immediately?

[jones177]

Just now, Olivia Moore said:

And did it go back to normal speed almost immediately?

Yes.