Should I lock the core clock on my Gigabyte RTX 5060 for Gray Zone Warfare?
When sprinting through the forest, my FPS would randomly tank from 90 to 50, and that stutter is a death sentence in this game. The RTX 5060's core clock was bouncing between 2100MHz and 2600MHz, making the frame times a total mess. I tried V-Sync first, but the input lag jumped to 40ms, which made the combat feel like I was playing in mud. I eventually used MSI Afterburner to lock the core clock at 2450MHz and the voltage at 1.05V. Looking at the frame time graphs, the jitter dropped from 12-30ms to a stable 14-17ms, and the tearing vanished. I actually pushed it too high at first and the VRAM hit 88°C, so I had to dial it back by 50MHz to get it stable. Now the GPU stays between 66-72°C with fans at 1600 RPM. Switched through a few performance modes and the clock is finally locked; fans are steady at 1400-1600RPM.
