laptop FPS drop in games

[Saladface35421]

I bought a zephyrus GA-502DU with ryzen 7-3750h GTX 1660ti 16GB Ram and 512 PCIe ssd. I play GTA 5 on this machine and I don’t know why my FPS drops below 10 very often. I’m in latest Nvidia driver and latest windows update. PLEASE HELP

[SupaKomputa]

maybe it's overheated

[Saladface35421]

1 minute ago, SupaKomputa said:

maybe it's overheated

temps are around 80 degrees under load, i don't think so that heating is an issue. I've an identical laptop (bought that 2 weeks ago) and temps sometimes hit 90 on that machine but it never throttles down.

[SupaKomputa]

watch for background running apps.

[boggy77]

if the gpu reaches 83, it will throttle

[Saladface35421]

1 minute ago, SupaKomputa said:

watch for background running apps.

just itunes, logitech options and discord. that shouldn't be too much. certainly not enough to bring the FPS down to below 10.

[Saladface35421]

2 hours ago, boggy77 said:

if the gpu reaches 83, it will throttle

I downloaded MSI afterburner to check that, and yes that was the problem. My laptop was pushing 100FPS but was also crossing 85C on GPU, hence thermal throttling. I capped my GTA V at 48 FPS and GPU is at 65-70C range. Thank you so much.