I wasn't aware of the manual part. It seems like it would still be accurate since you have to submit proof (of the clocks)? Do you have a source for gpuz reporting the wrong clocks?
It's common knowledge, GPU-Z (the normal gpu-z window) reports the base boost clock instead of the actual clock for any modern NV card without a modded bios. And for the longest time that was used on hwbot as the submission frequency. Now that it's not accurate for NV anymore it depends on the person whether they use the correct clock speed.
The GPU-Z system gets skewed once you do those close to 2ghz OCs. What matters is the air/water range where the actual clocks are often ~150Mhz higher than the ones reported by GPU-Z
I'll try avoid derailing the thread, my point was that fury x has to compete with 980 TI at about 1300 MHz to compete OC vs OC. Anything more is simply winning the silicon lottery (again, unless gpu-z actually does lie).
Simply not correct. A lot of the custom 980Ti models are actually ~1300MHz out of the box.
Like all the maxwell 2.0 cards the best 980Tis reach the high 1500s.