MSI gtx1070 core clock jumping in game

Zoltan_5

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I just got my gpu yesterday, tested it by using in p3d(flight sim) and the core clock jumping between 850-1950mhz. Is that normal? It cannot be thermal as it hardly reaches 60c and gpu usage is 20-60%. It is strange for me as my previous gpu hd7870 had always had constant core clock. I not touched the gpu,nothing is changed in afterburn. Any idea why is this? Thanks
 
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Yes, its normal. Nvidia GPUs work differently than AMD GPUs. Nvidia clocks are dynamic depending on the usage of the game if it doesn't require much power it clocks down. unlike amd where the clock at always constant.

Aladdad

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Yes, its normal. Nvidia GPUs work differently than AMD GPUs. Nvidia clocks are dynamic depending on the usage of the game if it doesn't require much power it clocks down. unlike amd where the clock at always constant.
 
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devor110

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I actually found this to be a bad feature at times as it does not seem to be very intelligent. My 1070 sometimes clocks itself down way too much and it gets me a few seconds of 24fps before it realises
 

Aladdad

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its more related to the game optimization, if its not well optimized it won't use the GPU properly
 

devor110

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heh yeah that might happen in planetside 2... (hint that game is very badly optimized if at all)
 

dsr07mm

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One thing, Nvidia doesn't work anything different then AMD, Pascal cards do. Same thing here.

Also, you can go in nvidia panel and change power management to max performance and you will get fixed clocks.