Question about GPU boost 3.0

[ace_cheaply]

Look what santa just placed on my doorstep...

 

 

Shout out to @HKZeroFive in the hot deals section for pointing it out to me. Screw markups, get it for just $11 over MSRP if you use a debit card. Seems like it's sold out on jet and newegg right now, so I'm glad I got it while it was there.

 

Anyway, according to the listing here and here, this should be the non-rog low clocked model. This model should have a base of 1506 (it does), and a boost of 1721. The ROG-Strix should have a base of 1632 and a boost of 1860, according to this.  When I ran Firestrike for the first time, MSI afterburner is showing a maximum clock of exactly 1860, whereas firestrike shows the boost clock at 1886.  Is this just gpu boost 3.0 doing it's thing and auto overclocking until it runs out of power, or did I get sent the slightly higher clocked version?

 

The core clock makes me think not, but the boost clock showing up as exactly 1860 in MSI afterburner was intriguing. 

[Imakuni]

GPU Boost is... unpredictable. You know this meme:

 

Yeah, that. Just swap out "aliens" with GPU Boost 3.0. Your card is just normal, don't sweat about it.

[ace_cheaply]

6 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

GPU Boost is... unpredictable. You know this meme:

 

Yeah, that. Just swap out "aliens" with GPU Boost 3.0. Your card is just normal, don't sweat about it.

I'm not worried, I'm just curious how the auto overclocking works, or if they sent me the more expensive card for cheaper, haha.

[incarnate]

Ah gpu boost. It loves you. It loves me too. I have a 970 ssc which boosts higher than the ftw+ edition. I can't really find an explanation for it. My best guess is that there's temp and power headroom left so it uses it

[Imakuni]

3 minutes ago, ace_cheaply said:

I'm not worried, I'm just curious how the auto overclocking works, or if they sent me the more expensive card for cheaper, haha.

GPU Boost auto OCs for you. That's really it. It has it's limits, sure, but it'll usually go above advertised.

[ace_cheaply]

1 minute ago, Imakuni said:

GPU Boost auto OCs for you. That's really it. It has it's limits, sure, but it'll usually go above advertised.

 

2 minutes ago, incarnate said:

Ah gpu boost. It loves you. It loves me too. I have a 970 ssc which boosts higher than the ftw+ edition. I can't really find an explanation for it. My best guess is that there's temp and power headroom left so it uses it

Gpu boost loves me, I can go with that!   My old 770 hit exactly the boost and core clocks advertised, so it never loved me before.  GPU Karma, I'll take it.

[pagani123]

gpu boost is kind of like a lottery for some it works well others it doesnt 

[Imakuni]

2 minutes ago, Maybach123 said:

gpu boost is kind of like a lottery for some it works well others it doesnt 

Nvidia... it's fine if you want to give GPU Boost for the noobs. But please, just let us turn a switch and turn it off, allowing manual frequency and voltage settings for those that have problems with it. Like I do...

[ace_cheaply]

11 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Nvidia... it's fine if you want to give GPU Boost for the noobs. But please, just let us turn a switch and turn it off, allowing manual frequency and voltage settings for those that have problems with it. Like I do...

 

14 minutes ago, Maybach123 said:

gpu boost is kind of like a lottery for some it works well others it doesnt 

And...Just like that, 2100 on the core, 8800 on the memory, 2000 point gain in firestrike graphics score.  Highest temp was 67.  I think i can get used to this, haha. 

[ace_cheaply]

4k gaming pc, here I come, lol.  Slightly lower clock at 2088, but got the memory up to 9200mhz!  Got me an extra 500 points.  gonna fine tune a little, then stress test. 

[App4that]

Nice to hear. Give'm hell!

[ace_cheaply]

5 minutes ago, App4that said:

Nice to hear. Give'm hell!

Thanks, . Just curious, what does your 980ti hybrid score when overclocked? From what I understand the 980ti is slightly faster oc to oc. 

[App4that]

48 minutes ago, ace_cheaply said:

Thanks, . Just curious, what does your 980ti hybrid score when overclocked? From what I understand the 980ti is slightly faster oc to oc. 

Here's Firestrike,   http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9006144

And Extreme.        http://www.3dmark.com/fs/8932941

[ace_cheaply]

30 minutes ago, App4that said:

Here's Firestrike,   http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9006144

And Extreme.        http://www.3dmark.com/fs/8932941

Yep, your 980ti has slightly higher graphics scores than my 1070 in both. It's close, but the 980ti takes it even vs 2114Mhz. 

 

Firestrike 20,830 vs your 21,289=2.2% faster

Extreme: 9732 vs your 9766=~0.35% faster.  

 

which pretty much confirms what i've seen.  Have you tried time spy yet?

[App4that]

3 minutes ago, ace_cheaply said:

Yep, your 980ti has slightly higher graphics scores than my 1070 in both. It's close, but the 980ti takes it even vs 2114Mhz. 

 

Firestrike 20,830 vs your 21,289=2.2% faster

Extreme: 9732 vs your 9766=~0.35% faster.  

 

which pretty much confirms what i've seen.  Have you tried time spy yet?

Yep, I'll post it in a bit. Don't have the full version though only the trial. Not sure if it's worth 5 bucks. Giving it some thought.

[ace_cheaply]

6 minutes ago, App4that said:

Yep, I'll post it in a bit. Don't have the full version though only the trial. Not sure if it's worth 5 bucks. Giving it some thought.

Haha, doing the same.  Time spy demo

[App4that]

16 minutes ago, ace_cheaply said:

Haha, doing the same.  Time spy demo

Very close but you got me. It's that Pascal superior architecture. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/13210083?

 

They SHOT me Jerry! *throws shoe*

[ace_cheaply]

7 minutes ago, App4that said:

Very close but you got me. It's that Pascal superior architecture. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/13210083?

 

They SHOT me Jerry! *throws shoe*

HA!  See, 1/3 ain't bad for a "brand new" architecture after two node shrinks! <_<    >_>  

[App4that]

21 minutes ago, ace_cheaply said:

HA!  See, 1/3 ain't bad for a "brand new" architecture after two node shrinks! <_<    >_>  

For what you paid that's bad ass! Better deal than the 1080 IMO

[ace_cheaply]

19 minutes ago, App4that said:

For what you paid that's bad ass! Better deal than the 1080 IMO

Yeah, I'm not bitter at all, I knew going in what the dealio was.  And I predict, similar to the 780ti vs 970, the differences will be negligible over time.  

 

The 1080 better hurry up and drop in price before the titan p and and 1080ti arrive in August*

 

[Toha]

4 hours ago, Imakuni said:

GPU Boost auto OCs for you. That's really it. It has it's limits, sure, but it'll usually go above advertised.

Yeah I can confirm this I've been having my GTX 1080 SC from EVGA's core clock maintain anywhere between 1900 and 2000mhz( The SC is advertised at 1847mhz boost) and all I did was set a fan curve that had about 20% at 20c, 42% at 40c, 60% at 60c etc. and seemed to do a damn good job keeping things in bellow or in the mid 60c's temp wise for the GPU too.  Just heads up it may be a cause of it going over the default 100% limit from time to time as I've noticed apparently one person the EVGA forums noticed too.  Imakuni was very helpful explaing some stuff to me earlier today actually about it.