Is my card overclocking?

[Galapagos]

Hi All,

 

Had my PC for around 3 months and recently started playing games on high settings.

I downloaded MSI Afterburner and NZXT Cam to track my GPU stats etc.. After a while of playing my card has now began to show stats like in the screenshot below. (Sometimes the GPU Core Clock is 2010Mhz)

 

Does what is showing on my card class as it is running overclocked? 

If so I just have a few questions around this if you can possibly help me!

 

 

Will running it with the settings shown damage my card?

How did this start overclocking?

And if this is overclocked, How can I revert back to normal settings? IF you think I should.

 

I cant remember if my card done this prior to me downloading MSI Afterburner either, If you can help me out that would be very much appreciated!

 

Thanks .

 

PC Specs

 

Intel i7-10700k 8 Core 3.8Ghz

16 GBDDR4 Corsair RAM

2TB HD

1TB SSD

MSI Gaming Trio X 3070

Intel WIFI

Windows 10

Asus Prime z490P

Noctua NH-D15

Be Quiet! Pure Bass 500 Case

Corsair 650W CV650

1X Exhaust Fan

1X Front Fan

1X Air Lid Vent

[Spudwell06]

That is a software that allows you to overclock preinstalled (i preferer afterburner tho)

 

non-bios overclocking is normally safe

PS, a triple fan on 2070 will be more than enough

[Hyrogenes]

4 minutes ago, Galapagos said:

Will running it with the settings shown damage my card?

How did this start overclocking?

And if this is overclocked, How can I revert back to normal settings? IF you think I should.

Nope

It didnt

You dont have to

 

This is not overclocking, you can see that you have no voltage change or clock change. Your card might be different than your advertised speeds because it might be automatically boosting to higher level clocks.

[-rascal-]

7 minutes ago, Galapagos said:

Hi All,

 

Had my PC for around 3 months and recently started playing games on high settings.

I downloaded MSI Afterburner and NZXT Cam to track my GPU stats etc.. After a while of playing my card has now began to show stats like in the screenshot below. (Sometimes the GPU Core Clock is 2010Mhz)

 

Does what is showing on my card class as it is running overclocked? 

If so I just have a few questions around this if you can possibly help me!

 

 

Will running it with the settings shown damage my card?

How did this start overclocking?

And if this is overclocked, How can I revert back to normal settings? IF you think I should.

 

I cant remember if my card done this prior to me downloading MSI Afterburner either, If you can help me out that would be very much appreciated!

 

Thanks .

 

PC Specs

 

Intel i7-10700k 8 Core 3.8Ghz

16 GBDDR4 Corsair RAM

2TB HD

1TB SSD

MSI Gaming Trio X 3070

Intel WIFI

Windows 10

Asus Prime z490P

Noctua NH-D15

Be Quiet! Pure Bass 500 Case

Corsair 650W CV650

1X Exhaust Fan

1X Front Fan

1X Air Lid Vent

 

That is normal with ALL modern graphics cards.

It is BUILT into the graphics card itself.

 

nVidia calls it GPU Boost -- your RTX 3070 should be equipped with GPU Boost 3.0.

AMD calls ir Radeon Boost (or something like that).

 

If the GPU temperatures are low, and it has enough thermal and power headroom, the card will AUTOMATICALLY overclock "Boost" itself.

 

MSi's spec page for the RTX 3070 has 'Boost: 1830 MHz" .... it should say "1830+ MHz" to be more correct.

1830 MHz is the "expected" minimum...but nothing about what the maximum is.

 

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-3070-GAMING-X-TRIO/Specification

[Galapagos]

1 minute ago, Spudwell06 said:

That is a software that allows you to overclock preinstalled (i preferer afterburner tho)

 

non-bios overclocking is normally safe

PS, a triple fan on 2070 will be more than enough

My card is the 3070 do you think it is safe?

I may have tweaked with the faders once before but that's it on Afterburner.

[Galapagos]

1 minute ago, -rascal- said:

 

That is normal with ALL modern graphics cards.

It is BUILT into the graphics card itself.

 

nVidia calls it GPU Boost -- your RTX 3070 should be equipped with GPU Boost 3.0.

AMD calls ir Radeon Boost (or something like that).

 

If the GPU temperatures are low, and it has enough thermal and power headroom, the card will AUTOMATICALLY overclock "Boost" itself.

Thank you for your rapid reply! So nothing to worry about here?

 

[Galapagos]

2 minutes ago, Hyrogenes said:

Nope

It didnt

You dont have to

 

This is not overclocking, you can see that you have no voltage change or clock change. Your card might be different than your advertised speeds because it might be automatically boosting to higher level clocks.

Thank you! I can stop worrying then 

[-rascal-]

4 minutes ago, Galapagos said:

Thank you for your rapid reply! So nothing to worry about here?

 

 

Yup, that is correct.

You can see in your NZXT CAM software, the temperature limit is set to 75*C by default.

Power Limit is also at the stock 100%.

 

The card is only running at ~63*C in your screenshot.

 

The card will keep running max+ speeds, until it either:

• Reaches the 75*C temperature
• Reaches the 100% power limit (you can set it up to 104% manually)

Then it will back the Boost clocks down, or maintain it at a certain level, so it doesn't exceed either 75*C or 100% power.

[Hyrogenes]

2 minutes ago, Galapagos said:

Thank you! I can stop worrying then 

However. If you want basically free extra performance and only lowering the lifespan of your card by 5% or less usually, you could try overclocking

[Galapagos]

Just now, Hyrogenes said:

However. If you want basically free extra performance and only lowering the lifespan of your card by 5% or less usually, you could try overclocking

Hmmm think ill stay away from that for a while 

2 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

Yup, that is correct.

You can see in your NZXT CAM software, the temperature limit is set to 75*C and default.

The card is only running at ~65*C.

 

The card will keep running a max+ speeds, until it either:

• Reaches the 75*C temperature
• Reaches the 100% power limit (you can set it up to 104% manually)

Then it will back the Boost clocks down, or maintain it at a certain level, and not go higher.

Nice one mate! Legend!

 

Just another one as you say that SOMETIMES and only sometimes the card does go a degree or 2 over its locked temp I presume that is fine?

And also if I had tweaked with the levels before but set it back to 0 on them do you think I could have damaged the card?

 

Does anyone know what the max overclocked core speed is of the MSI Gaming Trio X 3070 btw?

 

 

[Hyrogenes]

3 minutes ago, Galapagos said:

Hmmm think ill stay away from that for a while 

Nice one mate! Legend!

 

Just another one as you say that SOMETIMES and only sometimes the card does go a degree or 2 over its locked temp I presume that is fine?

And also if I had tweaked with the levels before but set it back to 0 on them do you think I could have damaged the card?

 

Does anyone know what the max overclocked core speed is of the MSI Gaming Trio X 3070 btw?

 

 

There is a 0% chance that anybody can tell you the max overclock your particular card can go. Each one differs even if they are the exact same card. Silicon lottery changes stuff. Also if the card goes above 75 depending on the software limits it will either crash whatever game you are playing and freeze your pc for a few secs. Or it might just cut down the clock speeds until your temps are within range. You will not permanently damage the card with overclocking unless you make a major extremely difficult mistake to make

[DildorTheDecent]

 

8 minutes ago, Galapagos said:

And also if I had tweaked with the levels before but set it back to 0 on them do you think I could have damaged the card?

With stock voltage control it's pretty much impossible to do any damage since you're operating inside Nvidia specifications. You'll only start to do damage if you are careless with a volt mod for example.

8 minutes ago, Galapagos said:

Does anyone know what the max overclocked core speed is of the MSI Gaming Trio X 3070 btw?

For air you should be able to hit the mid to high 2000s. Water should get you into the mid 2100 range. You would gain a few boost bins by improving the cooling on your card since every rise of 10C or so you drop a bin (15MHz). Pascal, Turing and Ampere are temperature sensitive. The power limit is also another one of the GPUs great limiters.

 

If you're overclocking the only tool that's worth your time is Afterburner.

[Mark Kaine]

2 hours ago, DildorTheDecent said:

You would gain a few boost bins by improving the cooling on your card since every rise of 10C or so you drop a bin (15MHz).

This is mostly correct,  but the numbers are a bit different all around I think (5C/ ~25mhz, roughly),  I don't think this changed much for the 3000 series, since I've been observing the boost behavior for a couple of months now and it seems largely unchanged to 1000 series. 

 

 

Best to undervolt, trying locking the voltage in the curve optimizer* and also make sure it's well cooled than relying on gpu boost in my opinion. 

 

 

*which still allows the card to downvolt/downclock btw

[-rascal-]

5 hours ago, Galapagos said:

Hmmm think ill stay away from that for a while 

Nice one mate! Legend!

 

Just another one as you say that SOMETIMES and only sometimes the card does go a degree or 2 over its locked temp I presume that is fine?

And also if I had tweaked with the levels before but set it back to 0 on them do you think I could have damaged the card?

 

Does anyone know what the max overclocked core speed is of the MSI Gaming Trio X 3070 btw?

 

 

 

That's fine, and not unusual if it goes 1 ~ 2 *C over the limit.

The temperature limit is software / artificial.

 

If you don't mess with the voltage setting, and just play around with the Temperature and Power Limit, you shouldn't case any damage.

 

As for the max overclock....that's a bit rolling the dice.

It will depend on your luck, and the grade / quality of the RTX 3070 silicon die you got.

You'll have to do some conventional trial-and-error overclocking to find out.

It will vary from one RTX 3070 to another... just like how no human in the world is 110% identical.