GTX 1080 boost clock stuck at low speeds after PC has been on for a while

[sde444]

Help i dont know what is causing this. I think its drivers?! Because i have found other users with similiar issues.

So.........
My pc was running all time so smooth and without problems. Gpu clocks was fine always 1990-2000mhz in games and benchmarks.
But last time i rest from gaming and my pc was idle on desktop Windows 10 ,4-5 days. So till today was everything working fine. Today i run some game i saw that clock is very very below normal values. So like i said. I didn't install any software IE: MSI afterburner, precision or anything like that. I am using only GPUZ and FRAPS . I dont change anything in Windows and bios. Even dont change power managament in windows because its balanced. All default like always. This issue appear from itself. I am still using 368.69 drivers. But just today after being idle 4-5 days i sit to pc and no matter what game or benchmark i run i saw low fps, Then of course i check gpu core clock. 1278MHZ no matter what. I restarted pc and all back to normal clocks and normal fps.

So question . It was driver related?
Screen:


Also link with somebody and the same issue:
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/949132/geforce-drivers/gtx-1080-boost-clock-stuck-at-low-sp...



PC: 6700K no OC


2x8GB Kingston Hyperx


Corsair 750 RM


Asus Strix 1080


SSD Crucial Bx 100 256 GB


Asus Z170-P


Windows 10


Somebody said:"The graphics card will get stuck a lower than full frequency if you have done any overclocking on either card that was not completely stable, it is pretty common for a restart to fix that""

So that can be because my factory oc not stable or its a driver issue?

[Nate152]

Hi sde444

It's nothing to worry about if rebooting fixed it, mine has done that on rare occasions too. I'm not sure what causes it I imagine it's windows or driver related.

[sde444]

Nate152 wrote:
Hi sde444

It's nothing to worry about if rebooting fixed it, mine has done that on rare occasions too. I'm not sure what causes it I imagine it's windows or driver related.

What is your graphic card? When i left idle pc for few days it get stuck on lower clocks, and GPUZ reporting PWR limit. Restart pc fixes.

Here is screen:



https://s10.postimg.org/vs9lf8ru1/122.jpg


Your card doing the same?

[sde444]

Somebody said:"The graphics card will get stuck a lower than full frequency if you have done any overclocking on either card that was not completely stable, it is pretty common for a restart to fix that""

So that can be because my factory oc not stable or its a driver issue?

[Nate152]

I would say in your case it was likely something to do with your pc being idle for such a long time.

No need to worry as long as a reboot fixes it.

It would probably be better to turn off your pc than let it sit idle for 4-5 days.

[sde444]

Hey Nate.
I found on this site similiar symptoms when users cards are not stable:

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/387651-gtx-980-ti-occationally-gets-stuck-at-idle-clock-speed/

But in my situation that throttle happened after pc being idle long time, thats all. It happened once.

And i have not any driver crash i check logs, 0 driver crashes. But they had driver crash. Weird.

[Chino]

Download and install GPU Tweak II. See it it's on Quiet Mode by any chance.

[sde444]

Chino wrote:
Download and install GPU Tweak II. See it it's on Quiet Mode by any chance.

Issue is hard to reproduce. It happened once after my pc was idle 4-5 days. I dont know if this is issue with hardware or just software.drivers?



I found on this site similiar symptoms when users cards are not stable: :
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/387651-gtx-980-ti-occationally-gets-stuck-at-idle-clock-speed/

And reason was not stable oc. So maybe I have not stable factory OC? Also they had driver crashes from the link above, but me not, I have 0 driver crashes. And normally the event log will show the drive crash report which in my case it doesn't show.

Maybe this is different situation because my card must be idle few days and I dont have driver crash.
.

[Chino]

ASUS guarantees that the Strix GTX 1080 can boost and be stable at 1936MHz as advertised. So anything over that frequency is like free performance but not guaranteed.

[sde444]

After pc idle for some time when i run some game it was throttle to gpu core clock 1275mhz no matter what game. Restart pc fixed this. Is this related to faulty factory OC? I dont oc card manually. My max boost out of the box is 1950mhz.

If system is idle long time, GTX 1080 becomes permanently throttled. The graphics clock is halved from a maximum of (factory OC) to 1285mhz .



I found on this site similiar symptoms when users cards are not stable: :


https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/387651-gtx-980-ti-occationally-gets-stuck-at-idle-clock-speed/

And reason was not stable oc. So maybe I have not stable factory OC? Also they had driver crashes from the link above, but me not, I have 0 driver crashes. And normally the event log will show the drive crash report which in my case it doesn't show.

Maybe this is different situation because my card must be idle few days and I dont have driver crash.