Here we present the average clock speed for each graphics card while running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test 20 times. We use GPU-Z in tandem with the Powenetics Project to record the GPU core frequency during the Fire Strike Ultra runs – at the end, we are left with around 4300 data entries.
We calculate the average core frequency during the entire 20-run test to present here.
Getting a look at average clock speed out of the box, we can clearly see the the Strix holds an advantage over the Founders Edition 2080 Ti – with the performance BIOS, it is about 120MHz faster and that only drops to 90MHz when we switch to the quiet BIOS.
So despite the Strix only having a rated boost clock of 1665MHz – 30MHz faster than the Founders card – the superior cooler allows the GPU to boost further and run at faster speeds.