How to fix the power limit throttling on Gainward RTX 5070 Ti?
In the middle of these chaotic martial arts brawls, my frame rate would suddenly crater from 110 FPS down to 45 FPS, and the stuttering was absolutely brutal. Digging into the logs, my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Snow Step OC 2.0 was peaking at 300W, triggering a hardware-level power limit that crashed the core clock from 2600MHz to 1800MHz. I tried cranking the power limit higher via software, but that was a disaster—temps shot up to 88℃ and the fans sounded like a jet engine taking off in my room. Instead, I went the opposite route: I manually dialed the power limit down to 92% and set up a custom fan curve to force 85% speed whenever the card hit the 60 - 80℃ range. HWInfo showed the clock speeds stabilized between 2300 - 2400MHz; I lost a tiny bit of peak performance, but the 1% lows improved massively. I actually messed up and set a negative voltage offset at first, which caused the game to crash instantly during combat, but returning to stock voltage fixed it. VRAM stayed at 76 - 82℃ and core temps hovered around 66 - 72℃. It's finally stable now.
