Wow, what is this brain fart? Made no sense what so ever.
Let me clarify. I was talking about the massive gap between stock core clock and boost clock. Which would be used for marketing purposes later. I still don't get how GPU Boost 3.0 avoids getting into clock speeds that are easily achievable via manual OC. I know most people won't touch overclocking themselves, but look at the 1070Ti, if you buy it, you pretty much have to overclock it or your money was better spent on the 1080.
And why not let the cards run at anything higher than 70c while having the OC'ed GPU performance not be throttled like it used to be in earlier architectures? Having options matters, I'm frowning upon efficiency being forced on the GPU. But I guess the new architectures aren't able to handle high temps anymore like in the old days, the 14/16nm silicon tends to degrade pretty fast as evidenced by Ryzen chips going bad from having high temps on constantly.
Technically Nvidia could let Pascal run hotter but have even better performance, but they don't have to this time (I'm talking about how older GPU architectures used to get really hot, because they are pushing out all they have out of that particular architecture, but they do hit a wall at some point with thermals and performance, until for the sake of competition you have to change your strategy and opt for something new, now cards seem to have so much thermal headroom and yet it seems to be unused at this point) because AMD cards still have lower performance when compared in many games.
Looks like 70 Celsius max is becoming the norm of some sort for CPU/GPUs.
I'm just more impressed by a Fermi/Kepler card able to run at 100c and not thermal throttle the performance at all. Sure, you end up doing a pretty stupid thing, but it's still amazing nonetheless. Can Pascal do that? No.
Nobody will ever know what Pascal/Volta are truly capable of because of the thermal/voltage wall that has been put in place. Those cards could probably be stable at higher voltages, but I don't think there's a way to bypass the voltage limit. Nvidia is either hampering overclocking on purpose OR the silicon is just working as intended and there's simply no reason to go past the limits because you will kill the card (I would like to believe that, btw I am not savvy in electrical engineering, so feel free to correct me if I am completely wrong).
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Vya Domus said. Even modding the card won't get you what is potentially possible. They really hit the gold center with Pascal, more so than any GPU architecture in history I think. Now they have to milk it for all it is worth.
It's just Nvidia being themselves. Just that every time it happens I get irritated and start smashing the keyboard like it's 1999.
In the end it's the consumers that are voting with their wallets. And everyone just seems to love so far how things are going.
