What and how does NVIDIA GPU Boost work on my 980Ti?

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I got a MSI 980Ti GOLD Edition and its normal Closk on GPU-Z says it is 1440MHz and Boost clock is 1229. When i got to MSI Afterburner it says Core Clock (MHz) is +0 and the Memory Clock (MHz) is +0. I set the Power Limit (%) to 109 which is max and i set the Temp. Limit to 91 which the 980Ti should never go past 92 on temps i heard. But i managed to get the Core Clock to (MHz) +110 and it is stable and never goes over 82 degrees but i do not know if that is good or not because i do not know what +110 even means because i am used to overclocking AMD and not NVIDIA cards. When i have my GPU overclocked to +110 i check GPU-Z and it says my Core Clock is 1250MHz and that my boost clock is 1338MHz now but when i am playing a game i look at the sensors on GPU-Z and it says my Core clock is well over 1500MHz even though in the Graphics Card section says my boost clock is 1338MHz so i am soooooo confused AHHHHH. It is like everything says something differently with the COre, Boost, and clock when i actually play games. S0me one please explain to me :(
 
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Im pretty sure DX12 is not relevant to the subject of the OPs question. It is not even relevant to todays discussion as it is still not present in most games, so suggesting he should have stayed with AMD is just typical chest pounding about your hopeful future.

OP the clocks showing in afterburner under load before your OC is the ACTUAL boost frequency you should reflect on and that actually matter. Once you add your OC of +110 to the boost clock, you are operating at +110Mhz on top of that original boost clock speed.

For example, my K|ngp|n boosts out of the box to 1443Mhz under load, I overclocked +85 so now my actual boost clock is 1528Mhz.
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Should have stayed with AMD. The 980 Ti is getting beat in DX 12 by a wide margin on Ashes of Singularity and that trend will likely continue for most DX 12 games. It's even beaten by the R9 390x, which is $250 less than the 980 Ti.

GPU-Z does not read account for changes in your video card's clocks. It'll only read what's in the card's bios and what the clocks are at the time of the program opening.

If you want a program to easily measure your clock just use MSI afterburner. It has everything in one spot and it's easy to read.

110 on the core is a pretty good overclock by the way.
 
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Im pretty sure DX12 is not relevant to the subject of the OPs question. It is not even relevant to todays discussion as it is still not present in most games, so suggesting he should have stayed with AMD is just typical chest pounding about your hopeful future.

OP the clocks showing in afterburner under load before your OC is the ACTUAL boost frequency you should reflect on and that actually matter. Once you add your OC of +110 to the boost clock, you are operating at +110Mhz on top of that original boost clock speed.

For example, my K|ngp|n boosts out of the box to 1443Mhz under load, I overclocked +85 so now my actual boost clock is 1528Mhz.
 
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See you call someone else for "chest pounding" and then interject "just typical chest pounding about your hopeful future". You automatically assume that this even involves my future at all. You could have ended your comment without the snarky remark but you had to act like a hurt puppy and cast doubt on my opinion's validity.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10067/ashes-of-the-singularity-revisited-beta

AMD does have better DX 12. It's not hopeful, it's fact. Since when isn't DX 12 relevant to Graphics Cards? I'm guessing you only buy cards for now and upgrade every year?
 
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The reason I said chest pounding is for the mere fact that OP already purchased his 980TI and you come in and first thing you spew is he should have stayed with AMD because of DX12. He didnt even ask about DX12, nor did he ask whats going to be better for DX12. My assumption and snarkiness was based off of the nature of your response. DX12 is not supported in any of the top tier games and likely wont be for quite a while so it is irrelevant to suggest him to buy an inferior product today for something that is not in fact available right now.

Oh and just to add im definitely not hurt like a puppy, im perfectly happy with my Kingpin 980TI (chest pounding) and will be for quite a while until Pascal releases its equivalent!
 
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Are you kidding me? AMD's best card is the Fury X and that is a pure trash yet cost the same as a 980Ti and has not even enough VRAm to run 1440p let alone 4K and it performs less than a 980Ti in almost every thing.. I have always been an AMD fan boy but i know how AMD is a dying breed and went ahead and went with NVIDIA because i am sick of low performance and cards hot enough to melt the sun not to mention the horrible drivers and such. Sure AMD is cheap but that is because AMD is Cheap quality and cheap performance. Direct X12 runs just as good on NVIDIA as AMD now from what i seen. AMD is good yes but i mean the R9-390X is just an R9-290X with a new name and a few more bells and whistles because AMD is dead and can barely create new cards. This is why NVIDIA cards cost so much because NVIDIA has no competition and they can charge us anything they want because NVIDIA knows most people will not want to go out and buy a 390X or Fury X because most people will be wanting a Great performing card. What i am saying is AMD is Cheap and NVIDIA is expensive and you get what you payed for. But thanks for the input on the other things man :)
 
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True man and also i am sure NVIDIA will fully support DX12 because my MSI 980Ti GOLD said on the box it fully supports DX12. I love AMD wayyyy more than NVIDIA but in these days NVIDIA beats AMD in everything and AMD is just garbage and AMD is holding on by a string in my opinion. And i have been buying nothing but AMD for 10 years so i am not an NVIDIA fan boy i just know whats what and i want the best performance and NVIDIA is the best performance i can get as of now. I had a FUry X a while back and it was pure trash. I had to turn down almost all settings when i gamed at 1440p on most games because the small childish VRAM was not enough and when i tried 4k...................well lets just not talk about that lmao.
 
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So is the Boost clock what my card is ruining at and is that what i go by?
 
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The 980 Ti and the Fury X have the same amount of ram so /fail on that one. 980 Ti is beaten by a wide margin by the Fury X and even the 390x on DX 12. If AMD dies we are all screwed. Jumping ships is only going to accelerate that process and then you'll end up with what intel does, 5% gains at best every year. Sure, the Fury X doesn't win in every situation against the 980 Ti but it's not too far off.

AMD is just behind in DX 11 right now because they decided to go with a parallel design which doesn't suite it well but does work well on DX 12.

Let me but it this way, either AMD delivers with Polaris or Nvidia will most likely have a monopoly on the market.
 
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THere is a reason i traded my garbage Fury X in for a 980Ti. THe FUry X may be better in some things that no one cares about but when it comes to gaming it is trash and considering it is the same if not more than the 980Ti it is a waste. Me, you , and everyone else knows that AMD will fail because history repeats itself and in AMD it has been repeating itself for years. Do i want to see AMD succeed? Yes of course i do but we know they will just fail like always and copy NVIDIA like always. Oh and also i do not know if you are a Troll but the 980Ti has 6GB of VRAM while the Fury X has 4GB of VRAM so you did a SUPER FAIL lmao !!! Also NVIDA is already and has been doing what Intel has been doing on the Prices because AMD is no competition. Also NVIDIA now supports DX12 the same if not buch better than AMD. Because NVIDIA did not care about DX12 becasue it will be years until it is even used fully so who cares if AMD can run something we wont be seeing in 5-10 years or 4 at most?
 
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The word "cheap" is about the only reason to go with an AMD right now. Actually I like the term "cost effective". Is AMD more cost effective than NVIDIA is? Yes. A Fury X goes for $550 where a 980TI goes for $699. A 390X goes for $400 vs. a 980 for $500. But does it necessarily mean that it's better? There's applications and uses for every card on every budget, doesn't mean one is more ideal than another one. On a $1K budget I would absolutely recommend a 390X over a 980. But on $600? I'd take a 960 over a 380X any day of the week. Reason: power supply. You can't say AMD is superior in every category because that's simply not true. There's a wide variety of factors to consider such as monitor resolution and refresh rate, and so on.
 
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He's pretty much right. Boost 2.0 or whatever it's called on TI works like this. There are two clocks in gpuz, the default clock which is your base clock and then there is a boost clock, which is typically anywhere between 76-100 or so above the base clock, it depends on each card. Reviewers tend to say boost clock and that's typically what they're referring to, not the actual in game clocks and the specs for each card may read oc mode 1190/1290 or gaming mode 1140/1250 or 1250/1350 for the different presets or whatever but those are just the default and boost clocks you see in gpuz. Once you go in game, it will boost one more time and that boost will be dependant upon quite a few factors(tdp, power limit, voltage, temps, temp limit, vrm temps, etc). That boost can vary but is anywhere between 100-about 150 Mhz.

So for me, typical overclock is 1281 base clock or default with boost clock in gpuz that reads 1357 Mhz and then in game that will boost to 1510 Mhz.
 
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