Fixing Gigabyte RTX 5060 VRAM bandwidth issues in Spider-Man 2?
Zipping through New York at full speed is great, but those micro-stutters at 4K are incredibly jarring and made me really paranoid about my hardware. The 8GB of VRAM on the Gigabyte RTX 5060 was struggling with the massive textures, and the bandwidth was swinging wildly between 300-400GB/s, causing brief loading bottlenecks. I tried DLSS Frame Gen first, but while the FPS doubled, the input lag increased and the stutters were still there. I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, set Power Management to 'Prefer Maximum Performance,' and used a tool to lock the memory clock to its peak to kill the fluctuations. Monitoring the response times, the latency spikes during loading dropped from 22ms to around 7-11ms, and the motion became incredibly fluid. I did deal with some weird fan resonance when I first locked the clocks, but a quick tweak to the fan curve silenced it. GPU temps are now stable at 64-70℃, and the core stays around 62-66℃.
