Fixing Power Spikes on Gainward RTX 5070 Ti in Silksong
This is just absurd—playing a 2D-style game and my RTX 5070 Ti is having power spikes. The optimization is a joke. During fast scene transitions, the power draw was swinging violently between 50W and 220W, causing the clocks to jump and triggering these 100ms stutters that made me want to throw my mouse. I tried locking the settings to Ultra to force a high power state, but then the fans would suddenly scream in quiet areas, which was just annoying. I finally went into the NVIDIA Control Panel and set Power Management to 'Prefer Maximum Performance' and switched Windows to the 'Ultimate Performance' plan. In my tests, the frame time spikes during transitions dropped from 15 - 120ms to a manageable 12 - 20ms. My idle temps went up by about 8℃, but a custom fan curve fixed that. Temps are now steady at 55 - 62℃, and I've backed up this config just in case.
