Fixing power limit throttling on Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Snow OC
That feeling when your FPS tanks from 90 down to 30 the second you enter an abandoned factory is a total nightmare; the input lag is just unbearable. Looking at the telemetry, my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti was hitting 78-83℃, forcing the GPU to downclock from 2600 MHz to 1800 MHz to save itself. I tried enabling 'Prefer Maximum Performance' in the control panel, but that just pushed temps to 86℃ and made the throttling even worse, which was honestly depressing. I dove into the OC software, undervolted the core by -25mV, and set a custom fan curve to blast at 90% once it hits 70℃. In HWiNFO, the clock fluctuations shrunk from 800 MHz to just 150 MHz, and my FPS stabilized between 82-88. I did have two random system reboots at first until I backed the clock down by 30 MHz. VRAM temps are sitting at 85-91℃ and the fans sound like a jet engine, but after three hours of exploring, the stuttering is dead.
