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for quite a while now whenever I review an nvidia GPU i will state right at the start of the video how fast the graphics card was in terms of core clock speed and memory clock speed and for quite a while now those members have really never been correct representations of how fast the card ran even when it wasn't overclocked what's to blame GPU boost the Logitech G 303 features a lightweight design and advanced optical sensor with delta0 technology for precise tracking and RGB lighting to match your setup click now to learn more now Nvidia claims that their GPU boost 2.0 technology extracts every ounce of computing power from compatible Nvidia graphics cards which results in a maximizing of frame rates in each and every game damn and that GPU boost 2.0 is faster and more flexible than 1.0 giving users more control over its configuration that's what Nvidia claims so ok but what does all that actually mean well the whole idea of GPU boost is for it to be an overclocking assistant what we'll be exploring today is the effects that it has on your graphics card when you do nothing at all but it does change things if you happen to tweak settings especially voltage and thermal limit and power limit stuff like that but that's a long story as well we may explore that later in a future video if you guys are interested so hit the like button to let me know GPU boost increases these things automatically by detecting if an application would be able to properly utilize additional graphics performance then as long as you have the additional Headroom in both thermal output and power draw you're going to be good to go for GPUs to kind of do its thing attempting to increase your various clock speeds in order to give you the additional performance you can use without any intervention intervention from you now you're probably thinking the effects of this must be quite small and insignificant with graphics cards being advertised all over the place with they're based in boost clock speeds isn't the boost clock speed as advertised just what the GPU is going to boost to anyways well kind of but also totally not at all you'd never expect a manufacturer or for that matter a retailer to undersell their product but what's kind of exactly happening here is that they're doing just that the gigabyte g1 gaming 980 TI that I reviewed a while back you can check the video up here it had an advertised base clock speed eleven hundred and ninety with an additional advertised boost clock speed of one hundred and one more than that which was twelve hundred and ninety one now why do I find this super interesting well for a few reasons to be honest reason one is that you'll never really see that base clock speed anyways essentially any game will cause GPU boost to kick in so whatever next up is that super specific boost clock of twelve hundred and ninety one with a number that's specific you'd expect it to be exactly twelve ninety one but as we discovered in that video it was a massive increase of 79 megahertz to an actual final boost clock speed of thirteen seventy so why not advertise thirteen seventy did they not know it would be this fast or much more likely than that were they making a conservative guess and this is where our testing began I needed a ton of the same GPU that all had GPU 2.0 technology and that's not exactly a cheap proposition to make luckily in video was already sending a six freaking tight next cards only four featured here they sent it our way so that we could do system upgrades for the editors and I took the opportunity to both build the compensator system the build of law the build log of which you can see here and do my testing for GPU boost the results were kind of awesome to be honest each card has its average range of core clock speeds that it would move between the first interesting observation here is at the lowest fluctuation on the lowest boosting card was still 13 megahertz faster than the advertised boost clock speed of a Titan X from Nvidia these are all reference cards the second observation is that the highest of the average fluctuations was 54 megahertz above the advertised even with every single Titan X hitting a thermal wall of 83 degrees under load in conclusion I personally think that was damn interesting but it was a little bit disappointing that we ran into the exact same thermal wall on every single card due to the high heat producing Titan X and a reference cooler we could have increased our thermal limit but I want to see what the cards to do without any changes happening to them and honestly I'm not a huge fan of running cards that hot anyways so no major loss there it was also interesting that the maximum clock speed of eleven thirty nine was hit by four out of the six cards for Stage two if you guys are interested and I can get different cards I'd like to try this again but with better cooled cards maybe some aftermarket coolers and stuff when playing with some overclocking settings 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