Fixing slow texture loading on Manli Snow Fox RTX 5070 OC 12GB?
Seeing buildings look like blobs of jelly that slowly sharpen is infuriating, especially when you have GDDR7 memory that should be instant. The VRAM on the Manli Snow Fox RTX 5070 OC usually hovers around 21 Gbps, but in certain low-load transition scenes, it suddenly drops to 800 MHz, causing a texture streaming delay of 150-200ms. I first tried setting the power management to 'Prefer Maximum Performance' in the driver, but the idle power shot up to 35W and the fans started spinning for no reason—a totally inefficient mess. I decided to go hardcore and used a clock tool to lock the VRAM frequency at a fixed 2100 MHz and tweaked the core voltage to 1.05V. In 4K texture benchmarks, loading times dropped from 3.2s to 0.8s. I did get some slight artifacting when I first locked the clock, but dropping it by 50 MHz stabilized everything. Now, VRAM temps stay at 62-68℃ and the core is between 58-64℃. The driver control panel confirms the core temp is rock steady at 58-64℃, though the idle power draw is still a bit high.
