Fixing VRAM bandwidth saturation on Zotac RTX 5060 Ti 8G?
Zipping through the neon streets of Tokyo was a disaster because of these maddening micro-stutters. I checked the VRAM monitor and saw the Zotac RTX 5060 Ti 8GB was pegged at over 95% usage, forcing the system into constant memory swapping. I tried dropping the texture quality, but the game looked blurry and washed out—completely unacceptable for a modern title. I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, manually set the Shader Cache Size to 10GB, and dropped the in-game sampling rate from 100% to 90%. RTSS showed the frame intervals stop jumping between 20-50ms and settle into a smooth 14-18ms range. I did notice the initial load time increased by about 10 seconds after the cache change, but a quick reboot fixed that. The card now runs between 62°C - 68°C and the experience is way better. Comparing the frame time graphs proved the fix worked. VRAM temps are holding at 62°C - 68°C.