What is going on with GPUBoost?

[Tephnos]

I've been attempting to overclock my EVGA 1070 SC (Both Afterburner and X), manually and through setting curves. I had heard setting curves gave you better clocks though, so I thought after I found a good manual clock I'd switch to a curve and see if I could get a better one.

Well... what's going on? Something seems off for sure.

Stock

+175/+550 Manual

2217/+550 Boost

2240/+550 Boost

2443/+550 Boost

Yeah. You heard that last one correctly. X (GPU Z was confirming the readings) was reporting a stable 2443 throughout the entire benchmark, without dropping once at 1.093v. Fans were blasted up to max to keep the temps at 45c.Of interest is how while the boosted scores are lower than the manual clock, the minimum FPS goes up with each one. This (is basically what the boost settings in X looks like (the extra before 1.093 was me trying to get the thing to crash).

So it is quite obvious that something is being reported wrong, as the manual clock goes quite a bit higher in Heaven and crashes on the core long before GPU boost does.

I've got no ideas on what the hell is going on. It's like I've missed something but I'm unsure as to what, exactly. I'm using the latest version of Precision X (downloaded it today after trying Afterburner), and setting the offset with GPU Boost to the same as the manual offset (+175) resulted in lesser performance compared to the manual offset.

Posted in a few other places but haven't seen any real definitive answers so I'll try here too.

 

[Panos]

You use the wrong software to test something like this. Valley & Heaven are ancient pieces of software that don't report always the correct speeds.
Also you have a screenshot from the result html file, that can be tampered.......

Use 3D Mark Firestrike and post here your Boost 3.0 curves and the valid 3D mark scores.
I can help since Boost 3.0 is something spend a lot of time mastering

 

[Tephnos]

But the reported speeds came from PrecisionX and GPU-Z, so it shouldn't matter what the benches are reporting?

You don't have to believe the html files but there's no reason for me to lie since I want GPUBoost to work, since it is supposedly better than manual clocking.

Hell, the reported speeds were stable in GTA V too...

Edit: Also, the boost is nothing special. I ended up slamming everything at 1.093v and higher to max trying to get the card to crash or bring the reported clocks down - but it wouldn't.