Core Clock vs Boost Clock?

[silvinodino]

Hey guys, I have the superclocked 1070 by EVGA. 

I noticed my cor clock is at the advertised 1595 Mhz. But then right below the spec list it says Boost clock 1784 Mhz. I don't really understand what the difference is between the two. Does that mean I can overclock it to 1784 Mhz safely using a OC'ing utility? Here is the link to my GPU. Also, because I purchased the "Superclocked" version of the 1070, is it already overclocked from factory? What was the original 1070 oc anyways. thank you!!!

 

[The Sloth]

the 1070 will go boost clock when needed its part of gpu boost 3.0. the base clock depends on binning and cooler that's on the card. 1070 can reach 2000 mhz if you have decent cooling and in an intensive part of a game. 

[Ryoku]

15 minutes ago, silvinodino said:

Hey guys, I have the superclocked 1070 by EVGA. 

I noticed my cor clock is at the advertised 1595 Mhz. But then right below the spec list it says Boost clock 1784 Mhz. I don't really understand what the difference is between the two. Does that mean I can overclock it to 1784 Mhz safely using a OC'ing utility? Here is the link to my GPU. Also, because I purchased the "Superclocked" version of the 1070, is it already overclocked from factory? What was the original 1070 oc anyways. thank you!!!

 

Coreclock is the guaranteed clockspeed you'll get out of your GPU, the boost clock is the minimum value the gpu should boost (or overclock itself to) if it finds it has thermal head room generally they will boost higher then the advertised boost clock but its not guaranteed.  usually there's even more head room for manual overclock as well.

[MMKing]

It's a fancy way of rating your product

 

The performance of x clock speed

The power draw of y clock speed

 

It's not just going on in the graphics industry. There are monitors that default to lower settings, so that the manufacturer can rate the product at a lower power draw and sometimes even pay less taxes.

[Simon771]

It just means that when GPU will be running at high load, frequency will bump up to 1800MHz.

But since this is GTX 1070, it should go to 1911MHz without doing any overclock.

 

Most GTX 1070 and 1080s can get to 2050/2101/2136MHz with overclocking, without any harm.

Simply by using some software.

 

Just use EVGA PrecisionX to OC it, and see how far it will go. You can't realy change voltage much, so no harm can be done.