Fixing power limit throttling on Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Storm OC?
Right as thousands of units charged, the game would hitch hard. I checked the logs and saw my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Storm OC core clock plummet from 2400MHz to 1800MHz. It was a classic power limit throttle, with power draw swinging between 280W - 310W, causing frame times to spike from 12ms to 35ms. I tried lowering shadow settings to save power, but it killed the epic scale of the battlefield, which felt like a huge compromise. Instead, I used the GPU utility to raise the power limit from 100% to 110% and set a much more aggressive linear fan curve. Now, the core clock stays locked between 2350 - 2450MHz, and the stutters are gone. I did have a scare when temps hit 82℃ after the power bump, but increasing my case intake airflow brought it down to 74 - 78℃. VRAM usage is steady at 10.5 - 12.1GB with fans at 2100 RPM. The frame time distribution is finally a flat line, and fans are steady at 2100 - 2200 RPM.
