Gpu thermal throttling?

[pentotark]

I own an EVGA GTX 1070 SC. When I run Unigine Heaven I can see the core clock fluctuate between 1898 and 1974 MHz while themperature being 66°C tops.

No OC is applied. Can this fluctuation in speed be considered as thermal throttling or thermal throttling occurs only when the speed goes below the advised boost speed (in my case 1784 MHz)?

 

Thanks!

 

 

[Godlygamer23]

Is this reading coming from Heaven or a dedicated monitoring program?

[Guest]

Thermal means temperature. Your GPU is fine

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/thermal

 

 

[pentotark]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Is this reading coming from Heaven or a dedicated monitoring program?

It is coming from the EVGA precisionX software.

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, pentotark said:

It is coming from the EVGA precisionX software.

I'm thinking the GPU is just fluctuating its frequency due to power limitations. Try increasing the voltage a tiny bit to see if it goes away.

 

Thermal throttling is when the chip becomes too hot and bumps down its frequency and voltage to keep itself from frying. 

[pentotark]

Just now, Godlygamer23 said:

I'm thinking the GPU is just fluctuating its frequency due to power limitations. Try increasing the voltage a tiny bit to see if it goes away.

 

Thermal throttling is when the chip becomes too hot and bumps down its frequency and voltage to keep itself from frying. 

I did increase voltage by 10% and now the clock speed value is extremely stable at 1986 MHz.

It was hard to believe thermals had a play in this because the gpu always run very quiet and cool but yet I couldn't explain the fluctuation. Thank you very much for your help, I did sure learn something! =)

[Godlygamer23]

Just now, pentotark said:

I did increase voltage by 10% and now the clock speed value is extremely stable at 1986 MHz.

It was hard to believe thermals had a play in this because the gpu always run very quiet and cool but yet I couldn't explain the fluctuation. Thank you very much for your help, I did sure learn something! =)

You're welcome.