GTX 1060 boosting up to 1940 MHz?

[MonstrousOgre]

So I have a GTX 1060 3GT OC from MSI which has 2 fans. I wanted to overclock it using MSI Afterburner, so I ran a benchmark with Unigine Valley first. It was showing a clock speed of 1940 MHz.

I checked the clock speed myself and it was right. I'm not complaining since MSI lists the boost clock speed as 1759 MHz, but I'm curious as to how I was getting such a high speed without overclocking.

I did manage to get a decent overclock with stable temperatures, so I guess it all went smoothly. But I wanna know if I got lucky with my card or whether MSI has the numbers wrong.

PS. Sorry if this belongs in the overclocking category. I can move it.

 

[photonboy]

NVidia's Boost technology often goes above the listed value.

I believe NVidia was intentionally conservative as it varies by cooling potential, silicon lottery etc.

More info: https://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review/15

The GPU does tend to get throttled near 83degC (there's no exact cut-off there are incremental drops), and it's hard to get a sustained frequency above 2000MHz so if you are hitting 1940MHz that's great.

You may drop LOWER in games where it's more stressful of the GPU thus heating it up, but again if you're below 80 (ish) you probably are sitting at close to the maximum frequency.

(It will also drop much LOWER if you have a CPU bottleneck, or software bottleneck such as VSYNC at 60FPS if the GPU could output a higher FPS if uncapped. thus it's underutilized and may drop the frequency to save power)

 

[MonstrousOgre]

NVidia's Boost technology often goes above the listed value.

I believe NVidia was intentionally conservative as it varies by cooling potential, silicon lottery etc.

More info: https://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review/15

The GPU does tend to get throttled near 83degC (there's no exact cut-off there are incremental drops), and it's hard to get a sustained frequency above 2000MHz so if you are hitting 1940MHz that's great.

You may drop LOWER in games where it's more stressful of the GPU thus heating it up, but again if you're below 80 (ish) you probably are sitting at close to the maximum frequency.

(It will also drop much LOWER if you have a CPU bottleneck, or software bottleneck such as VSYNC at 60FPS if the GPU could output a higher FPS if uncapped. thus it's underutilized and may drop the frequency to save power)

Ah well that explains it. I'll have to read up more about that. Thanks!

Well I was just barely hitting 80C after a 15 minutes bench once I overclocked. So I tweaked my fan curve and now it fluctuates between low-mid 70s. That should be good right?