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Why is my Gpu clock less in games than it is when i stress test

Foaly97
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So i have a msi gaming 1070 and i was playing ashes and i noticed my gpu was clocking to 1930Mhz however when i stress test it it'll go up to 2090Mhz and i'm just curious why is this?

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it will depend on the load, if your gpu needs more processing power and has the thermal/ power headroom it will overclock itself( gpu boost 3.0). benchmarks put unrealistic stress on GPUs making it go full tilt. 

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It might be that not all the power of the GPU is needed in the game meaning that the GPU doesn't need to boost clock it's self as high to do so. As a stress test is designed to use 100% of the possible power of that system so will make the GPU boost to it's highest clock speed

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4 minutes ago, MatthewCarr said:

So i have a msi gaming 1070 and i was playing ashes and i noticed my gpu was clocking to 1930Mhz however when i stress test it it'll go up to 2090Mhz and i'm just curious why is this?

because stress test puts your gpu to its maximum limit while gaming does not

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Just now, grimreeper132 said:

It might be that not all the power of the GPU is needed in the game meaning that the GPU doesn't need to boost clock it's self as high to do so. As a stress test is designed to use 100% of the possible power of that system so will make the GPU boost to it's highest clock speed

The game was ashes of the benchmark on max it was using between 80% to 100% on a 3v3 map 

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