How accurate is after burner?

[Gregry254]

I installed after burner while trying to figure out why my games keep crashing with a new 1070 and it is showing my boost clock to be 2000mhz when the factory standard for the card should be 1784mhz.

Could after burner be showing the wrong stats?

(I have not messed with the clock on the card before now)

 

[benjii]

Are you using Afterburner 4.3.0 Beta 4? Pascal GPU's weren't properly supported before that release. If you are or if you install that and it still shows the same info, then something may be wrong.

You should definitely try something like HWinfo too though, for a second opinion. Don't use GPU-Z because it's coded by the same guy as Afterburner and if what you're seeing is a mistake, it may replicate it.

 

[Aretak]

That's entirely normal and accurate. GPU Boost 3.0 will have you operating at well above the advertised clocks out of the box. The 1060 I have did 2GHz out of the box without any tweaking too. Essentially it does most of the overclocking for you, something Nvidia were no doubt eager to implement as it means better scores across the board in reviews.

As for the crashing, I've read quite a few reports of cards not being able to sustain their boost clocks out of the box, especially with the higher-clocked cards like the Strix OC and Gigabyte Extreme.

 

[benjii]

That's entirely normal and accurate. GPU Boost 3.0 will have you operating at well above the advertised clocks out of the box. The 1060 I have did 2GHz out of the box without any tweaking too. Essentially it does most of the overclocking for you, something Nvidia were no doubt eager to implement as it means better scores across the board in reviews.

As for the crashing, I've read quite a few reports of cards not being able to sustain their boost clocks out of the box, especially with the higher-clocked cards like the Strix OC and Gigabyte Extreme.

I didn't know that, scratch what I said then! Seems a bit silly to push such a hard OC if they're not binned for that.

 

[Aretak]

Pascal cards that can't manage 2GHz stable seem to be fairly rare duds, but that's obviously no excuse for them to be unstable out of the box. That sort of thing should be caught during the manufacturer's testing. Of course, it could be that the OP's problem is something else entirely and just showing the same symptoms. My advice would be to try underclocking it a little and see if it's stable then. If it is, then I'd be sending it straight back, personally. I'd never accept a card that was unstable at factory settings (which happened to me with Asus' R9 280X TOP, where they went far too aggressive on the memory overclock).