How to stabilize Gigabyte RTX 5060 Windforce clock speeds?
The stuttering was brutal whenever I hit the neon-lit city areas; the screen would just hitch every few seconds. Looking at the logs, the Gigabyte RTX 5060 Windforce was swinging wildly between 2100-2500 MHz under load, causing frame times to jump between 15-28 ms, which felt like a slide show. I first tried enabling 'Prefer Maximum Performance' in the NVIDIA driver, but while I gained maybe 5 FPS on top, the 1% lows became even more unstable—definitely not the trade-off I wanted. I ended up using Overdrive to manually lock the core clock at 2350 MHz and nudged the voltage curve from 1.0V to 1.05V. Checking RTSS, the frame times tightened up from 18-32 ms to a consistent 11-14 ms, and the game finally felt fluid. I did run into a couple of driver resets right after locking the frequency, but that stopped once I backed off the memory clock by 50 MHz. Now the GPU stays between 65-71°C, and stress tests show the clock is locked in, with VRAM temps sitting comfortably at 58-63°C.
