gpu boost question

[SHADY16]

so ive been wondering why my 1080 never stays at the max boost clock even though it is no where near the temp target i have set for the card and max power i have seen it hit was 115% but i have it set for 124% any way i could make it run at the max boost clock consistantly? card stops at 80c and doesnt get hotter

[JakeNTech]

The boost function is not ,when its under load it will go to the max clock; If the GPU is under a hard load and feels it needs to be done faster it will turbo its self to the right clock speed for that task not straight to the boost top end speed.

[SHADY16]

8 hours ago, fixitnow said:

The boost function is not ,when its under load it will go to the max clock; If the GPU is under a hard load and feels it needs to be done faster it will turbo its self to the right clock speed for that task not straight to the boost top end speed.

is there any way to make it boost to the max clock regardless?

[JakeNTech]

1 minute ago, SHADY16 said:

is there any way to make it boost to the max clock regardless?

The only way would be to overclock your card as that would disable turbo. But that would increase power draw

[App4that]

For Maxwell there is a feature to have the GPU stay at max clock, that is silly. People actually call that a problem if it happens unintentionally. Haven't see Precision X for Pascal so don't know it the feature made it over, but look for a feature called KBOOST.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Or "force constant voltage" in AB. 

[SHADY16]

7 minutes ago, Pohernori said:

Or "force constant voltage" in AB. 

it appears to not work on pascal as it still downclocks under the max boost

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

9 minutes ago, SHADY16 said:

it appears to not work on pascal as it still downclocks under the max boost

 

Is your gpu usage pinned at 99%? 

[App4that]

What overclocking/monitoring software are you using?

[SHADY16]

11 minutes ago, App4that said:

What overclocking/monitoring software are you using?

 

12 minutes ago, Pohernori said:

 

Is your gpu usage pinned at 99%? 

yes it is pinned at 99% and im using msi afterburner

[Imakuni]

10 hours ago, SHADY16 said:

so ive been wondering why my 1080 never stays at the max boost clock even though it is no where near the temp target i have set for the card and max power i have seen it hit was 115% but i have it set for 124% any way i could make it run at the max boost clock consistantly? card stops at 80c and doesnt get hotter

And that's why people have their Bios moded, to get rid of GPU "Boost Headaches".

 

You want your card to do what you want? Gotta flash custom clocks to it. Else, it just does it's thing and OCs when you don't want, while not going as high when you do.

[App4that]

Load PrecisionX and use KBOOST

[SHADY16]

2 minutes ago, App4that said:

Load PrecisionX and use KBOOST

i would do that as i used to use precisionX exclusively until it decided to auto overclock my 1080 to way way to high about 3000mhz im glad it didnt fry my gpu lol