ASUS 2070 ROG Strix core clock

[R3v]

Hello wonderful people. I've been having a love/hate relationship with an ROG RTX 2070, love because I love the performance, hate because in in the 5 months that I own it I've already gotten one repair and two replacements. Now the latest replacement is in my PC, and after monitoring it for a while I've noticed something unusual. I have not done any overclocking but in high load (95%-100%) when playing Control (RTX on) the hardware monitor reads the Core Glock at 1980MHz. Ive done some research and everyone it says that the card should have an out of the box turbo clock at 1815MHz. Is this normal and if it is what is it that I don't understand in the cards workings. The GPU holds a stable 64 degrees C, so I am not worried about any overheating. I am just worried that the extra clock speed could result in yet another malfunction and replacement. Again I have not done any overclocking on my machine, I just got it out of the box and plugged it in.

My system specs are as follows:
Asus H170 Pro Gaming motherboard
i7-6700k
32 Gigs DDR4
ASUS RTX 2070 ROG Strix 8gb

[Snow]

64 degrees is perfectly fine. Clocks above promoted ones are fine too. 95-100% usage is not fine, but if you're okay with input delay and stutters - well okay.

[R3v]

Thanks for the reply, the 100% doesn’t seem to be only in my case, nearly every gameplay video I managed to find of said game with the said card was the in the usage margin above 95% I believe it has to do with the RTX features, however as I said that’s not really what’s bothering me I

[Snow]

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Thanks for the reply, the 100% doesn’t seem to be only in my case, nearly every gameplay video I managed to find of said game with the said card was the in the usage margin above 95% I believe it has to do with the RTX features, however as I said that’s not really what’s bothering me I

Yeah, well, that's how they test graphics cards. It's not the best way to play games tho, you want to keep your usage below 90% at most times and use CPU-level framerate limiter like RTSS so your system has no hardware limitations. But if that doesn't bother you - don't mind me. Either way there's absolutely nothing wrong with your system. In fact, your temps are pretty awesome for this card, I guess you've got a nice case with decent airflow.

[R3v]

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R3v님이 먼저 게시:

Thanks for the reply, the 100% doesn’t seem to be only in my case, nearly every gameplay video I managed to find of said game with the said card was the in the usage margin above 95% I believe it has to do with the RTX features, however as I said that’s not really what’s bothering me I

Yeah, well, that's how they test graphics cards. It's not the best way to play games tho, you want to keep your usage below 90% at most times and use CPU-level framerate limiter like RTSS so your system has no hardware limitations. But if that doesn't bother you - don't mind me. Either way there's absolutely nothing wrong with your system. In fact, your temps are pretty awesome for this card, I guess you've got a nice case with decent airflow.

The case is nothing special - some cheap Chinese knock off brand with one intake one exhaust case fan, however I did get a Cooler Master liquid cooler for the CPU since it had an unused top mounted slot, which opened up a lot of space, and after some cable management got the temps in most other games like say Kingdom Come the GPU sits at around 55, Mass Effect Andromeda is 50, War Thunder in the mid 40s. The CPU idles at 22 and at the maximum I could throw at it it doesn’t get hotter than 55.

[dOBER]

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64 degrees is perfectly fine. Clocks above promoted ones are fine too. 95-100% usage is not fine, but if you're okay with input delay and stutters - well okay.

Gpus never reach 100%, max is 99% but it would be total new to me 99% creats stutter and/or input delay. My gpu is always maxed out without any stutter or delay.

[Snow]

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Snow님이 먼저 게시:

64 degrees is perfectly fine. Clocks above promoted ones are fine too. 95-100% usage is not fine, but if you're okay with input delay and stutters - well okay.

Gpus never reach 100%, max is 99% but it would be total new to me 99% creats stutter and/or input delay. My gpu is always maxed out without any stutter or delay.

99% GPU usage without stutters and added input latency - now that's something new indeed. But then, considering your GPU is always maxed - no wonder you don't know the difference. Give not torturing your graphics card a try, you might be shocked by results.

[dOBER]

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Gpus never reach 100%, max is 99% but it would be total new to me 99% creats stutter and/or input delay. My gpu is always maxed out without any stutter or delay.

99% GPU usage without stutters and added input latency - now that's something new indeed. But then, considering your GPU is always maxed - no wonder you don't know the difference. Give not torturing your graphics card a try, you might be shocked by results.

Holy.. it looks like you are not joking. Tell me please why should you have stutter and input delay with maxed out gpu usage? Anything to back this up?

[Autumn_]

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Snow님이 먼저 게시:

99% GPU usage without stutters and added input latency - now that's something new indeed. But then, considering your GPU is always maxed - no wonder you don't know the difference. Give not torturing your graphics card a try, you might be shocked by results.

Holy.. it looks like you are not joking. Tell me please why should you have stutter and input delay with maxed out gpu usage? Anything to back this up?

I would link you some stuff to back his claim up, but I'm on mobile, so it's extremely hard for me.
All I got for now is my word, not that it means much.

[AdahnGorion]

My Asus Rog strix 2070 works like a charm and I have never had any issues. Its also dead silent. Maybe you were just unlucky.

[Snow]

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Snow님이 먼저 게시:

99% GPU usage without stutters and added input latency - now that's something new indeed. But then, considering your GPU is always maxed - no wonder you don't know the difference. Give not torturing your graphics card a try, you might be shocked by results.

Holy.. it looks like you are not joking. Tell me please why should you have stutter and input delay with maxed out gpu usage? Anything to back this up?

Sure.
Here's a top PC showing awful frametime issues with GPU running close to 100%.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGogOnb6qzg
Here are explanations and tests from a reliable source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsXFUVYPIx4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CKnJ5ujL_Q

[R3v]

Wow this is really interesting. I am not much of a competitive gamer and I’m perfectly fine with anything online running at 60fps for single player experiences anything above 30 is fine for me. The videos do make a good point though. Still if anyone knows why there’s a difference in the advertised and real clock speeds please let me know.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The load is supposed to be around 90-99% it's normal, nothing bad about that. If it's lower it's cause you have a high end gpu running at a lower res, such as gtx 1080 ti or rtx 2080 running at 1080p the usage would be lower generally because such gpus have headroom for heavier loads at higher resolutions. What you don't want is your cpu load in games getting too high.

[Snow]

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The load is supposed to be around 90-99% it's normal, nothing bad about that. If it's lower it's cause you have a high end gpu running at a lower res, such as gtx 1080 ti or rtx 2080 running at 1080p the usage would be lower generally because such gpus have headroom for heavier loads at higher resolutions. What you don't want is your cpu load in games getting too high.

Check the videos I posted, they explain why you don't want 99% GPU usage either. And there is no such thing as "supposed". From a gamer's view - game is supposed to feel responsive and smooth, and that's the opposite of what you get with 99% GPU usage.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

No, no its not an issue being smooth or not. Whenever I did builds with gpus like gtx 570, 680, 780, seeing this kind of usage on 1080p, ultra settings was normal. It didn't hurt anything.

[R3v]

What Snow says, does have some merit. I tested my system in a game which I know uses the GPU at around 60% which is the Witcher 3. I was getting stable frame times of 16ms with fps locked at 60. Then I tested the aforementioned Control. As I previously said GPU utilisation in the high 90s FPS in the high 40s, and frametimes fluctuating between 18-22ms. Then I limited my framerate to 40 using RTSS, and got stable frametime of around 22. That said the difference I felt was so miniscule that it doesn't really bother me. After all I've been playing a lot on consoles which drop frames like crazy in newer games.

As for the clocking issue I did some more research on that as well. It's nVidia boost 4.0. Basically the GPU will overclock itself if it feels like the temps are fine and there's enough power limit. The given number of 1815Mhz Boost clock is bascially the minimum you can except until thermal throttling occurs. If the card feels like it and it seems given my temps it feels like it alot, it will boost well over that, to a maximum of 1980Mhz, and an average clock of 1920Mhz. So yeah, there goes that. Was a usefull thread though, I learned a lot about frametimes and latency.