GTX 1070 NOT BOOSTING?

[josh_27]

So i recently got a Asus Dual 1070 8gb and i realised it's not performing up to what i expected so i launched hwmonitor to see my core clock at 1582mhz which happens to be the base clock of this card when i already oc'd it in afterburner. Unigine Valley also reads my core clock as 2000mhz when it still says 1582 mhz on hwMonitor. Help plz

[Mira Yurizaki]

What does Afterburner say? And for another opinion, try GPUz.

 

If you have more sources telling you one speed, it's probably that.

[Daveeede]

Try GPU-z. Valley has issues reading clocks on Pascal based GPUs. Also make sure your settings are applied in afterburner.

[Enderman]

Use MSI afterburner while running a stress test to make sure the temps are fine and see what the clock speed is.

HWmonitor might not be accurate.

If you see afterburner also shows 1500MHz then please post a screenshot of afterburner.

[Misanthrope]

Actually another common issue is that the pascal cards (and I think all Nvidia cards on recent drivers) tend to get "stucked" on lower maximum power states so even if the game demands more performance it won't go to the full boost clock, sometimes stucked at 1500ish, sometimes stucked at 1200ish, sometimes my card was even stucked at the bare minimum of 169mhz or so.

 

This behavior should change after restarting the driver so just reboot your machine and try again. If it keeps happening sorry to say there isn't a solution as of yet to this, best thing I've found to avoid a soft reset everytime is to use  GPU-Z to attempt to export the GPU bios this will immediately reset the driver (You don't even need to save the BIOS you can cancel out of it) and it should boost back up to your max.

[DildorTheDecent]

4 minutes ago, Daveeede said:

Try GPU-z. Valley has issues reading clocks on Pascal based GPUs. Also make sure your settings are applied in afterburner.

Valley has issues with quite a few GPUs. Not just Pascal .

[Ashiella]

Hmm only 1582? My 970 hits 1674 stable, not heavily oc'd at all.

[josh_27]

okay so gpuz is showing my boost clock being at 1860mhz. How far can you push my card? also i seem to have better performance using gpu tweak instead of afterburner? idk tho anyone have any preset oc settings for me? 

[Simon771]

HWmonitoring is useless when it comes to GPU frequency.

 

About pushing your card: most of the GTX 1070 cards are able to get 2100MHz on core. Not sure about memory, but on my founders edition I put +230MHz on core and +700MHz on memory. Stable 24/7.

 

But for starter go with +150 on core and +400 on memory. Then slowly rise up and hope for best results.

Let us know what can you get out of that card.

[josh_27]

1 minute ago, Simon771 said:

HWmonitoring is useless when it comes to GPU frequency.

 

About pushing your card: most of the GTX 1070 cards are able to get 2100MHz on core. Not sure about memory, but on my founders edition I put +230MHz on core and +700MHz on memory. Stable 24/7.

 

But for starter go with +150 on core and +400 on memory. Then slowly rise up and hope for best results.

Let us know what can you get out of that card.

what about voltage? do i touch that

[Simon771]

1 minute ago, josh_27 said:

what about voltage? do i touch that

In my case I was using EVGA PrecisionX, and I didn't touch voltage at all.

But if you have voltage option unlocked, try using +50mV or something like that.

[josh_27]

2 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

In my case I was using EVGA PrecisionX, and I didn't touch voltage at all.

But if you have voltage option unlocked, try using +50mV or something like that.

mine is by % so im not sure how much mV to increase it by

[Simon771]

2 minutes ago, josh_27 said:

mine is by % so im not sure how much mV to increase it by

As I know, GTX 1070 and 1080 have locked voltage anyway.

So card won't go above 1,09V.

Those cards could easily run on 1,15V 24/7, but are sadly locked.

 

What is your voltage at stock?

Try to use +10% and see how far it will get.

 

You are 100% safe to have it at 1,09V.

[josh_27]

8 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

As I know, GTX 1070 and 1080 have locked voltage anyway.

So card won't go above 1,09V.

Those cards could easily run on 1,15V 24/7, but are sadly locked.

 

What is your voltage at stock?

Try to use +10% and see how far it will get.

 

You are 100% safe to have it at 1,09V.

Its locked in Afterburner but not on gpu tweak. Im not quite sure about the voltage at stock but can i find it somewhere on gpuz? im looking at something called vddc and its at 0.8V with 20% boost in voltage

[Simon771]

3 minutes ago, josh_27 said:

Its locked in Afterburner but not on gpu tweak. Im not quite sure about the voltage at stock but can i find it somewhere on gpuz? im looking at something called vddc and its at 0.8V with 20% boost in voltage

Yeah that's the voltage I'm talking about.

Now you just need to use valley benchmark in windowed mode, push everything to max settings and let it run. Keep an eye to that voltage and boost cloocks.

 

I get 1,05V on stock settings with founder card, but when I use precision X and push voltage to 100%, it goes to 1,062V. So not a big difference and it won't make any dammage on your GPU.

Not 100% sure why my card isn't going to 1,09V, but it seems like it doesn't need it to run on 2101MHz core clock and 2250MHz memory clock (showing in GPU-Z sensors).

 

I say you push it to max and you will see that it won't go higher than 1,09V.

[josh_27]

1 minute ago, Simon771 said:

Yeah that's the voltage I'm talking about.

Now you just need to use valley benchmark in windowed mode, push everything to max settings and let it run. Keep an eye to that voltage and boost cloocks.

 

I get 1,05V on stock settings with founder card, but when I use precision X and push voltage to 100%, it goes to 1,062V. So not a big difference and it won't make any dammage on your GPU.

Not 100% sure why my card isn't going to 1,09V, but it seems like it doesn't need it to run on 2101MHz core clock and 2250MHz memory clock (showing in GPU-Z sensors).

 

I say you push it to max and you will see that it won't go higher than 1,09V.

alright thanks for the input! will try it out

[Simon771]

2 minutes ago, josh_27 said:

alright thanks for the input! will try it out

No problem mate.

I think you can expect 2100MHz on core easy. Anything after that will be probbably unstable.

[Paragon_X]

Go to Nvidia panel and choose on Power Maximum performance, this might be why its throttling.

[josh_27]

by the way my gpu boost  clock can only be boosted by +88mhz for some reason. it wont let me go past that... there is that user define function but im not sure how to use it..