Zotac GTX 1070 AMP Extreme Overclock Figures & Results?

C6ckneyGeezer · 12 May 2017 at 22:55

Hi all! Has anybody out there overclocked their Zotac GTX 1070 AMP or AMP Extreme? If so, what figures and results did you get? Tbh any GTX 1070 OC would be good as a reference!

I currently have found a maximum stable OC of 2126MHz Core and 2376MHz (9504Mhz Effective?) Mem. Any more on the core and it fails benchmarks, any more on the mem and it will artifact and fail stress tests. I can push a bit more, but backed off a little extra as I would rather stability.

Afterburner settings are as follows:

Core Voltage - 100%
Power Limit - 120%
Temp Limit - 92*c
Core Clock - +90
Mem Clock - +650
Custom Fan Profile - 75% after 30*c. My card idles at 28/29*c with 0% fan.

I currently hit a max temp of around 55-60*c after benching/stress testing. I also have Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut paste installed instead of the stock paste. Driver version 382.05. Rest of spec in sig!

Benchmark results as follows:

Fire Strike - Graphics Score 21667 - Overcall Score 16497 - Link
Fire Strike Extreme - Graphics Score 10164 - Overcall Score 9197 - Link
Fire Strike Ultra - Graphics Score 5039 - Overcall Score 4997 - Link
Time Spy - Graphics Score 6960 - Overcall Score 6490 - Link

Anybody have any feedback or figures to compare mine to? I have for sure got some free performance, but can I push anymore? If so, how?

Cheers!

Daaaveee · 15 May 2017 at 13:52

Anything over 2100mhz is really good, most cards will hit around 2000mhz +- 100mhz. You will notice over 50c the clocks will drop a little, and again every 5-7c if I remember correctly, so of course the cooler the better, this is GPU Boost working its magic.

My MSI Gaming X will happily bench over 2100mhz too, however I have dropped the clocks down to around 2050mhz just to ensure rock solid stability. I run a custom fan profile with 60% fan speed under 80c to ensure I can't hear it, 73c is the most I've seen at this fan speed after prolonged 100% GPU usage gaming. I also replaced the TIM with Kryonaut which gave around 3-4c drop in GPU temp

The AMP Extreme looks like a beefier cooler so I would expect it to run a little cooler.

Enjoy your card!

Daaaveee · 15 May 2017 at 13:59

Also, there are quite a few benchmark threads you can visit on here to see how you stack up against others. My 1070 managed 21750 gpu score in firestrike standard, highest 1070 GPU score on there, I should probably re-run the tests now I've got a 6700K to get a higher overall score. Something for you to have a go at beating

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/firestrike-standard-bench-thread.18665940/

foster grant · 20 May 2017 at 13:22

I have just got myself the Amp Extreme and was thinking about OC'ing it but was unsure as to what amount to add to the GPU and Memory clocks , and would I really need to add anything to the core voltage and so on ?
thanks

Daaaveee · 23 May 2017 at 09:26

foster grant said:
I have just got myself the Amp Extreme and was thinking about OC'ing it but was unsure as to what amount to add to the GPU and Memory clocks , and would I really need to add anything to the core voltage and so on ?
thanks

In MSI Afterburner, slide your power and temp target sliders all the way to the right to begin with, then start adding +25 a time to your core clock while running Unigine Heaven in the background, stop when it crashes of course and drop back 25mhz to where you were before. You can fine tune by adding a few MHz more if you like, but obviously it just takes longer to fine tune and it may only be stable in heaven but not in a game for example, which is why I tend to use larger increments

Again do the same with memory clock but with +100 increments.

You will probably fine your cards limit around +100 core (+- 50mhz) and +500 memory (+- 200mhz)

You can also slide your voltage all the way to the right, however I find this doesn't give me many more MHz (around one GPU boost step, ~12mhz), at the cost of quite a bit more heat (~5c), which then might cause GPU boost to drop speeds by a step due to higher temps anyway. YMMV but I ended up leaving the voltage at 100% in the end for a cooler and quieter card.

All this being said, you're not getting a lot more performance, as GPU Boost 3.0 is so good at doing the hard work for you. For example with my MSI Gaming X 1070, stock boost clocks settle around 1950mhz, and overclocked around 2050mhz once the card the fully warmed up, which boils down to a handful of FPS in the end. Always nice to have the extra performance for free though at the cost of a little time

ElB · 23 May 2017 at 20:46

I've been playing with my SeaHawk X 1070; sadly my options for pushing the card are nerfed by MSI putting a fairly low limit on the maximum power (105 is all she wrote) and I'm too frightened to touch the voltages, but it's stable at 2126 and RAM seems happy at 4600. The core seems to actually hover around 2088 in use and only rarely hits the top for longer than a few seconds, but it's bumped my Firemark graphics score up by nearly 2000 over the "OC" setting from the MSI Gaming app so I'll take it (20,630 vs 18,792).

foster grant · 24 May 2017 at 09:50

OK guys thanks....I'll see how I get on with it ( fingers crossed )

Daaaveee · 24 May 2017 at 16:24

ElB said:
I've been playing with my SeaHawk X 1070; sadly my options for pushing the card are nerfed by MSI putting a fairly low limit on the maximum power (105 is all she wrote) and I'm too frightened to touch the voltages, but it's stable at 2126 and RAM seems happy at 4600. The core seems to actually hover around 2088 in use and only rarely hits the top for longer than a few seconds, but it's bumped my Firemark graphics score up by nearly 2000 over the "OC" setting from the MSI Gaming app so I'll take it (20,630 vs 18,792).

I believe the first step down in boost frequency happens at 50c, so once you go above this is will drop down by 12.5mhz for every few C in temperature rise.

2088 is a good overclock though, enjoy

C6ckneyGeezer · 27 May 2017 at 19:57

Sorry all, not had the time to get back on here to reply! Thanks for all the replies!

Daaaveee said:
Also, there are quite a few benchmark threads you can visit on here to see how you stack up against others. My 1070 managed 21750 gpu score in firestrike standard, highest 1070 GPU score on there, I should probably re-run the tests now I've got a 6700K to get a higher overall score. Something for you to have a go at beating

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/firestrike-standard-bench-thread.18665940/

My best result so far is http://www.3dmark.com/fs/12678953

Currently running 90+ core and 700+ mem.

I think that's the max I can get out of my card before issues arise.

Is there anything else I can tweak other than OC'ing to get the score better?

foster grant said:
OK guys thanks....I'll see how I get on with it ( fingers crossed )

I used other's OC as a guide and just slowly increased figures till I found fault mate. The 3d mark stress test is a good tool too!