New EVGA RTX 2070 SUPER XC ULTRA runs at 1995 Mzh core clock ?

[Welite]

Hello,

 

I just bought a new EVGA RTX 2070 SUPER XC ULTRA, in specs, there is base core clock of 1605 Mhz and boost clock of 1800 Mzh, however I tried some games and the core clock speeds are getting to 1995 Mhz, while power is only about 70%, temp. is below 60C. Should not the card be locked to the max boost clock 1800 Mhz ? Why it goes over that without any overclocking ? I do not want to shorten it's life because of some wrong settings or are these speeds normal ? GPU memory clock is pretty much the same all the time - 7000Mhz, when in windows and when in game it stays the same.

 

 I measured all the values using MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision X1, both programs show exaclty the same values so they are probably correct.

 

 

Link to manufacturer product site:

https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=08G-P4-3173-KR

 

 

Thanks for any tips and replies.

[Princess Luna]

This is completely normal and expected behavior due to GPU Boost 4.0 mechanics.

 

It will validate your voltage, temperature and workload and try to figure out on its own the maximum stable frequency to run at automatically and on your case it seems to peak at 1995mhz.

[Jurrunio]

yup, GPU boost tech. It will push at most 200MHz more on top of the specified max boost clock when temperature and power limit allows it. It also does temperature to frequency scaling for you, so you dont need to constantly adjust the core clock offset when overclocking.

[Welite]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

yup, GPU boost tech. It will push at most 200MHz more on top of the specified max boost clock when temperature and power limit allows it. It also does temperature to frequency scaling for you, so you dont need to constantly adjust the core clock offset when overclocking.

 

2 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

This is completely normal and expected behavior due to GPU Boost 4.0 mechanics.

 

It will validate your voltage, temperature and workload and try to figure out on its own the maximum stable frequency to run at automatically and on your case it seems to peak at 1995mhz.

Thanks for replies, can you please point me out to some article describing this in detail ? Thanks

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Welite said:

Thanks for replies, can you please point me out to some article describing this in detail ? Thanks

Here you go mate, have a good reading:

https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/feature-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-and-2080-ti-review-guess-who-has-fastest-cards-again/gpu-boost-40

[Welite]

9 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

Here you go mate, have a good reading:

https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/feature-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-and-2080-ti-review-guess-who-has-fastest-cards-again/gpu-boost-40

Thanks. So If I understand that correctly, the core clock will scale until voltage/temperature treshold ? So values of the manufacturer (mainly boost clock) is pretty much no information at all since it is overridden by nvidia build-in technology ? Doesn't this technology shorten gpu lifetime then ?

 

I had GTX 970 previously and it was capped to it's boost clock so I was really scared when I turned on some game and saw 195 more Mzh than the set boost clock and quickly turned off the game

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Welite said:

Thanks. So If I understand that correctly, the core clock will scale until voltage/temperature treshold ? So values of the manufacturer (mainly boost clock) is pretty much no information at all since it is overridden by nvidia build-in technology ? Doesn't this technology shorten gpu lifetime then ?

Yes,

Yes,

Not at all, the silicon can take these clocks.

 

1 minute ago, Welite said:

I had GTX 970 previously and it was capped to it's boost clock so I was really scared when I turned on some game and saw 195 more Mzh than the set boost clock and quickly turned off the game

This become mainstream on Pascal 1000 series cards with GPU Boost 3.0 so yes it's something new to you hehe.

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, Welite said:

Doesn't this technology shorten gpu lifetime then ?

It doesn't raise voltage though so it can't hurt the GPU noticeably more than the act of using the GPU itself.

[Zando_]

24 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

It doesn't raise voltage though so it can't hurt the GPU noticeably more than the act of using the GPU itself.

Pretty sure you can't even push dangerous voltages on Pascal/Turing without hardware or BIOS modding, right? 

[Jurrunio]

7 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Pretty sure you can't even push dangerous voltages on Pascal/Turing without hardware or BIOS modding, right? 

you could when the cards decides to kill itself

 

but no you can't do that normally