GPU laptop issues

Mickey11 · May 22, 2021

Hello!

So lately this issue happened suddenly where, regardless of the games I play, the GPU gets stuck at 100% of usage and the CPU lays around 10% of usage. I get consistently 8-10fps regardless of the game and regardless of the quality settings.

I have a ROG Strix Scar II laptop

Stuff I have done so far:
-Nvidia settings always set to the highest performance
-rolled back nvidia drivers to old versions (457.51)
-reinstalled Windows
-used DDU method
-rolled back windows build version (latest at this moment) to the 1909 version and now back again to version 20H2
-when I rolled to the 1909 version I repeated the first step on the nvidia drivers
-opened my computer to see if everything was fine, everything is clean, no dust, no temps issues at all

I noticed that different Nvidia drivers changes slightly the gpu's behaviour. It used to be stuck in power perf mode always and now with the latest driver changes between pwr perf and utilization perf, yet when I start gaming always goes back to pwr perf mode (139MHz)

Nvidia 457.51 driver gpu behaviour: https://imgur.com/a/pF0XURp
Latest Nvidia driver gpu behaviour (466.47): https://imgur.com/a/SXkLwdj

FurMark benchmark: https://gpuscore.top/furmark/show.php?id=349128

And still couldn't fix my issue and I am running out of ideas. If isn't gpu related task, it runs smooth as butter.

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit, Build 19042, Installed 20210502115531.000000+060
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10, CPU Count: 12
Total Physical RAM: 16 GB
Graphics Card: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630, 1024 MB
Hard Drives: C: 236 GB (65 GB Free); D: 931 GB (447 GB Free);
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GL504GM, ver 1.0, s/n n0cv1828mb0004096
System: American Megatrends Inc., ver ASUS - 1072009, s/n J7NRCV00A007290
Antivirus: Windows Defender, Enabled and Updated
I have to mention that my laptop also has a GTX1060 6GB