How to fix VRAM pressure on Gainward RTX 5070 Ti?
While swinging through Manhattan at high speeds, I kept getting these tiny frame skips that were incredibly jarring. Checking the background monitors, I saw that the VRAM scheduling on my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti was spiking to over 15ms whenever it loaded massive batches of building textures. I tried lowering the texture quality, but the game looked muddy and the stutters were still there—it was clear the issue was VRAM bandwidth utilization, not capacity. I went into the control panel, set Power Management to 'Prefer Maximum Performance,' and enabled the VRAM cache optimization setting. In RivaTuner, my minimums jumped from 52 FPS to a stable 75-82 FPS, and that silky-smooth feeling finally came back. I did have a quick driver reset the first time I enabled the optimization, but a quick patch update fixed it. GPU temps are between 66-72℃ with fans at 1700 RPM. VRAM latency is now under 5ms, and the fans have settled at 1400-1600 RPM.
