My GTX 1070 is Thremal Throttling and I don't know why. Help is appreciated.

[Nekrial]

I have a MSI Gaming X GTX 1070 and I have recently attempted to overclock it and am running into some weird Thermal Throttling issues. I have my core clock overclocked to 2050mhz and it stays at that speed no problem until it reaches 58c. Once the temperature reaches anything above 58c the core clock will drop little by little each degree the temperature rises. The Coreclock will even go below 2000mhz once the temp reaches 65c. The Temp. Limit is set to 92c on MSI Afterburner BUT I have found that the card thermal throttles the exact same whether it is set to the default temp limit of 83c or if the temp limit is raised to the max of 92c. I am new to overclocking and am very confused and would like to know why my card begins to thermal throttle way before it should. Any help is appreciated.

 

[1LiquidPC]

That is not technically thermal throttling. It's how GPU Boost 3.0 works on newer Nvidia GPUs. Boosting over reference clocks is a bonus until certain temps are reached. Only when clockspeeds drop below reference specs would be throttling. All the modern Nvidia cards will do this. Setting higher temp and voltage limits for OC can't change this behavior. Only way to prevent is to keep cooler than 58C to prevent boost bins from dropping. I have my 1080 Ti watercooled, and clocks stay constant at 2012, as temps never go over 45C in summer temps.

 

[aquielisunari]

That is not technically thermal throttling. It's how GPU Boost 3.0 works on newer Nvidia GPUs. Boosting over reference clocks is a bonus until certain temps are reached. Only when clockspeeds drop below reference specs would be throttling. All the modern Nvidia cards will do this. Setting higher temp and voltage limits for OC can't change this behavior. Only way to prevent is to keep cooler than 58C to prevent boost bins from dropping. I have my 1080 Ti watercooled, and clocks stay constant at 2012, as temps never go over 45C in summer temps.

Agreed. I can enable Kboost(EVGA only ) which trumps Nvidia's Boost tech.. Kboost keeps my card(EVGA 1080 TI FTW3 Hybrid) at its top speed regardless. You're kinda stuck with what you have. With the card's integrated 120mm AIO liquid cooler in place it can't exceed 50C even during benchmarks. Gaming and having my GPU in the 30s and 40s isn't something I'm not used to but I definitely appreciate EVGA for that.

Do you have Nvidia's Control Panel's 3D Settings/ Power Management set to maximum performance?

Windows Power at High Performance?

You could see about changing your fan curve if you can handle the noise.