New 1080 ti - MHz keeps changing.

[MouseProblems11]

Hi all. I just got a new 1080 ti and I didn't overclock it. I downloaded MSI afterburner and the clock speeds keep on accelerating past the boot clock. It's common to see it go past 2,000 MHz in game. Why would this be happening when I didn't overclock it? Also during idle the minimum clock speed is 1455 MHz. That seems a little high, no? 

[Lord Nicoll]

4 minutes ago, MouseProblems11 said:

Hi all. I just got a new 1080 ti and I didn't overclock it. I downloaded MSI afterburner and the clock speeds keep on accelerating past the boot clock. It's common to see it go past 2,000 MHz in game. Why would this be happening when I didn't overclock it? Also during idle the minimum clock speed is 1455 MHz. That seems a little high, no? 

It's called GPU boost 3.0. When the GPU has power, voltage and thermal headroom, the card will auto overclock past the boost* clock (not "boot" clock). Nvidia GPUs don't have a singled fixed frequency. 

[Majestic]

GPU Boost 3.0 doing it's job.