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1080 Ti throttling issues

h4rm0ny said:
That's the thing though, most sites show benchmarks based around a few minutes of testing. I think it actually IS a newsflash to many people; and it's surfacing in relation to the 1080 release (a little unfairly) because the really high clock speeds combined with a lack of cooler options is making people examine this where many of them haven't examined it before.
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This issue is as old as time and affects every single GPU review out there, not just the 1080. People have always argued about open bench vs. closed case vs. case that sits on carpet and is 50% dust.

Nobody gets exact parity with review figures; they're just an indication of the general trend. If you're suffocating a card with poor cooling to the extent that it fails to run, is it the vendor's fault? Does the situation change if lack of cooling results in a lower boost clock than others are achieving?
 
Gregster said:
I game for several hours and sometimes even more when a few of us are playing The Division but if you meant "not into PC gaming for long"?, As soon as the Amiga died, I went over to PC gaming and my first real PC game memory was Doom.
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So do you recall your voodoo cards and geforce 256 throttling? :p Throttling has only really been an issue since this "boost" gimmick got introduced.
 
Gregster said:
Sweet, another thread. Question to the OP. Do other reference cards throttle? Do non ref cards throttle? What was the fan curve? What fan speeds were they throttling at?

In all my time using reference cards, they have all throttled, so just wondering why this is something a lot of people are worrying about?
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Its Nostradamus's prediction for 2016 it is somewhat alarming.

"and it shall come to pass that a giant green monster will emerge from the depths of the North Atlantic and it will smite and throttle its very self and met its doom. And low will a thousand maggots emerge from its rotten corpse and consume the whole of the earth. Some men do speak of a mythical Ti beast rising anew for the corpse of the old, but this is nought but fallacy and conjecture. For we are doomed I say. As I have so foretold on many other occasions in this very place"
 
Are serious overclockers really going to go for the founders edition GPU? During gaming the card never drops below the baseline 1607mhz so what is the issue? Furmark is a bad test anyway because it's blacklisted in Nvidia drivers to downclock.
 
Gerard said:
So do you recall your voodoo cards and geforce 256 throttling? :p Throttling has only really been an issue since this "boost" gimmick got introduced.
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I sadly can't remember in truth but back in those days, I had to buy everything as cheap as possible and yer, boost is good in principle but needs a decent cooler really.
 
PiKe said:
Are serious overclockers really going to go for the founders edition GPU? During gaming the card never drops below the baseline 1607mhz so what is the issue? Furmark is a bad test anyway because it's blacklisted in Nvidia drivers to downclock.
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The issue is it renders this "boost" thing nvidia introduced utterly worthless. Baseline may well be the minimum amount you're meant to get out of the gpu but this is all down to this "expensive" cooler they slapped onto the card. And to add insult to injury this series of cards comes with boost version 3. :confused: I can see the marketing right now

"nvidia 1080 bend over edition with gpu boost 3, see insane clock speeds for all of 5 minutes before the cooler ***** the bed and down clocks furiously, only $699". :eek:
 
pandem0nium said:
I'd get the cheapest card from the non FE editions and stick a block on it or attach an AIO.
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That's the way to go unless of course you're 12 years old and too excited to wait for Santa to finish his mince pies.

Galax have been doing a black blower version of some cards that's cheaper than most so hopefully one of those turns up at the mrp so you can stick a block on that.

D1craig said:
"Stays cool and can be overclocked easily to over 2ghz".
Is this not a lie? Was AMD not slated for this when they said "an overclockers dream"?

Why is it different with nvidia?
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That's completely different. Thermals pulling a chip back is not the same as a card that simple won't clock very well.
 
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Surely a revised fan profile will solve it? Yes it'll be noisy but at least it will do as advertised.
 
nashathedog said:
If that is true and the big chip from AMD only buts heads with a 1080 it's bad news for us.
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Vega is the big chip, not 10. Polaris is mainstream ie middle market. Its actually pretty decent if the x80 AMD chip is competing with the x80 of nvidia's. since due to the different numbering schemes they run, that's a step difference.

nashathedog said:
That's completely different. Thermals pulling a chip back is not the same as a card that simple won't clock very well.
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He's not saying the claim is the same, just that the prelaunch PR lie from AMD has just been done by nvidia. It doesnt run cool, it throttles and the boost isn't hitting above 2ghz in the real world.
 
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