First of all let me apologize in advance, english is my third language. So bear with me..
I recently purchased this card (Asus 5080 TUF OC) as a much needed upgrade over my old low tier card, and i have been having an issue, or a minor inconvenience, with it and it's boost clocks.
The base boost clock for this model is 2700, while the factory oc is 2730. And while i have been testing the card, gaming and benchmarking, i have noticed that the boost clock is almost dead on to 2700 most of the time (if not almost always). Never going past 2712 or so, and sometimes little bit below 2700. (edit: Recently starting not to reach even the 2700, always at 2675)
This wasn't an issue until i started watching some youtube videos from various tech channels and benchmarkers that have the same card. They ALWAYS have their boost clock go up to ~2800 or so. Most of the time well over it and with every game they test / show.
This started me thinking if there were some issue with my card, or if i'm missing on something here... I do remember having my 3000-series card always go way higher than the advertised boost clocks, just like on the videos in question.
I did initially use MSI Afterburner to test out some undervolts, before deciding that i'll wait until driver issues are fixed.. And just use stock settings until then. And while using AB i did have the bug with it's voltage control, causing clocks to drop significantly. And i learned about how to fix it with the "nvidia-smi --reset-gpu-clocks " command in windows command prompt. (could these commands be the cause somehow?)
Small observations i made with updated beta HWInfo64 is that while gaming, my core voltage is pretty much always 990-995mV, Power TDP is around 90-92%, and temps at cool 60C on average. Isn't voltage supposed to go above 1000mV at times? And the power use closer to 100% when not even close at the fps limit?
It honestly feel like i had some sort of voltage or power control on, which i don't. Nor do i have any other limiters (to my knowledge).
I have not suffered with the black screen etc issues that are widely reported.
Steps i have taken to try figure this out: (not in any particular order)
- DDU'd my drivers, and tested various different versions of them. Currently on the latest set.
- Tried the Asus stock cables instead of the brand new native 12vhpwr one that came with my 2024 model of the Corsair ATX 3.1 RM1000x PSU.
- Reseated the gpu.
- Uninstalled/reinstalled Nvidia app, Asus Tweak III, and MSI afterburner. (Not using AB and Tweak at the same time).
- Took off my Fractal North's mesh side panel to see if the airflow was causing throttling, which isn't. Temps were super low to begin with.
- Made sure i had the latest stable non-beta MB bios. The beta one doesn't appear to have anything related to this.
- Made sure i'm on the GPU performance bios, instead of the silent mode.
- Tested setting pcie to 4.0 instead of auto (which uses 5.0) in the bios.
My hardware: Ryzen 7800X3D, the asus tuf oc 5080 in question, (2024) RM1000x Corsair atx 3.1 psu, Asus ROG STRIX B650E-F gaming wifi motheboard
Any help would be very much appreciated!
