GTX 960 FTW Clock Speeds

[voxgm]

So I just got a EVGA GTX 960 FTW Edition to replace my r9 270x. With gpu-z it shows a 1468MHz core clock speed and a memory clock speed of 1752MHz. But in unigine valley benchmark It says I got a core clock of 1569MHz. But gpuz reads a max of 1468MHz. Evga precision X reads 1468MHz as well. I don't understand this whole base clock and boost clock thing. Says the boost clock should be 1367MHz acroding to the website. Im confused.

 

[maddogfargo]

I had Unigine once tell me my GTX 970 was at 2580 core.

The Unigine monitors are wonky at times. Ignore what Unigine says and go with MSI AB or EVGA Precision tells you.

 

[voxgm]

Yeah I figured that but why is precision telling me 1468Mhz when the website and box says 1367MHz?

 

[Sahaj Pal]

Yeah I figured that but why is precision telling me 1468Mhz when the website and box says 1367MHz?

That is the actual boost clock speed your card works at under full load, or in simple words while gaming. Even if the card's boost clock is rated at 1367mhz, NVIDIA cards automatically boost even beyond that under gaming loads, this is how NVIDIA's GPU Boost 2.0 Technology works.

My unigine valley benchmark always reports the wrong values on my core lol so ignore it..

 

[voxgm]

Ah ok that makes sense now. Yeah I see valley says my memory clock speed is like 3505MHz which is way off. Ok cool. Thanks you guys for the help.