GPU Clock Speeds Issue

[Dyllxn]

I have recently upgraded to Windows 11, downloaded the latest drivers and have everything up to date. I have a 2080 that would normally run at 2025 MHz while gaming, but in a select few games, if I am not running the game at a custom resolution higher than 1920x1080, for example I have been using 1920x1440. My clock speeds will sometimes go to 2025 in menus while at 1080p, but as soon as I get into a game, the core clock will drop to 1515 and stay there unless I go into another menu. I have noticed that changing some of my settings up or changing the resolution quality up can sometimes get the clocks to fluctuate between 1515 and 2025, but most of the time it will just drop back down to 1515. The games I am currently seeing this issue on are World War 3 and Planetside 2. I tried deleting my custom resolution as that is around the time I noticed the problem, but it did not work. It could also just be something with windows 11. If anyone has any information on how I might go about fixing this it would be helpful, and I am open to sharing as much information as possible to fix this.

[Jurrunio]

what about temperature, frame rate and gpu usage? clock speed alone cant be an issue.

[Dyllxn]

25 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

what about temperature, frame rate and gpu usage? clock speed alone cant be an issue.

Temps are fine, hovers around 50C, frame rate is decent, but it could be higher if the clock speed was where it is supposed to be, and usage is moderate 30-60% depending on how much is going on at once, not like I am bottlenecked on anything. I have a 2080, 9900k @ 4.9 GHz, 32GB 3200MHz corsair Vengeance. It never did this before I updated to windows 11 or made a custom resolution. I have a feeling it has more to do with the custom resolution as when I set it to 1920x1440 it runs at the higher clock speed of 2010-2025 MHz.

[Dyllxn]

4 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

what about temperature, frame rate and gpu usage? clock speed alone cant be an issue.

I have also noticed something with the voltage and the power curve graph. My voltage stays at 742 mV, which correlates to the 1515MHz stock speed. Is there something that might be affecting the voltage from going higher only on certain games? It seems to me like there is a problem with the Nvidia Control Panel 3D settings, as I have Power Management Mode set to Prefer Maximum Performance, but it seems to be behaving like adaptive. It may also have to do with GPU utilization, as it does not start to clock up past 1515 until about 35% utilization. I have already tried reinstalling drivers completely and restarting.

[Jurrunio]

4 hours ago, Dyllxn said:

usage is moderate 30-60% depending on how much is going on at once,

then this is why clock speeds don't go higher. Extra clocks are meaningless if they aren't used but burns more power.

 

4 hours ago, Dyllxn said:

not like I am bottlenecked on anything.

frame rate cap? dual channel memory?

 

4 hours ago, Dyllxn said:

I have a feeling it has more to do with the custom resolution as when I set it to 1920x1440 it runs at the higher clock speed of 2010-2025 MHz.

more pixels to render = higher load. You can achieve the same by turning up graphical settings, also causes more load.

 

53 minutes ago, Dyllxn said:

I have also noticed something with the voltage and the power curve graph. My voltage stays at 742 mV, which correlates to the 1515MHz stock speed. Is there something that might be affecting the voltage from going higher only on certain games?

There is a voltage associated to a clock speed, but voltage here reacts to clock speed. It wont limit you until you hit the max voltage which is I think 1.093v for 20 series.

[Dyllxn]

56 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

then this is why clock speeds don't go higher. Extra clocks are meaningless if they aren't used but burns more power.

 

frame rate cap? dual channel memory?

 

more pixels to render = higher load. You can achieve the same by turning up graphical settings, also causes more load.

 

There is a voltage associated to a clock speed, but voltage here reacts to clock speed. It wont limit you until you hit the max voltage which is I think 1.093v for 20 series.

My core clock used to be max at 2010-2025MHz no matter the load as long as I was in a game. I am getting lower FPS because even though I am at a 30% load, it is only running at 1515 MHz instead of 2010-2025MHz. The extra power isn't being wasted, the frame rate would be higher. Also, I am not capping frame rate with anything, and memory is running in dual channel with XMP on. Could it possibly be something with the new drivers and windows 11? Like I said, I didn't have this problem until around the time the drivers came out and I switched to Windows 11. My core clock would be a steady 2010-2025MHz even under a lighter load like 20-40% so I could ensure maximum FPS. I can provide videos of the gameplay and stats if that would maybe help.

[Jurrunio]

2 hours ago, Dyllxn said:

My core clock used to be max at 2010-2025MHz no matter the load as long as I was in a game. I am getting lower FPS because even though I am at a 30% load, it is only running at 1515 MHz instead of 2010-2025MHz.

Then this is a usage problem, not clock speed. Clock speed is adjusted by overall utilization, not the other way round.

 

If you reinstalled the drivers already, first to suspect will be the OS. You can try have a Windows 10 install on a different drive so you dont end up having to reinstall 11 if 10 doesnt solve the problem.

 

You can also use HWinfo64 sensor mode to check extra data of the graphics card, see if something other than the GPU core is overheating. Typical OC software dont read all readings on the card. Even then there are things not monitored by sensors, you should check the thermal pads on the card which should cover the VRM and VRAM.

[Dyllxn]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Then this is a usage problem, not clock speed. Clock speed is adjusted by overall utilization, not the other way round.

 

If you reinstalled the drivers already, first to suspect will be the OS. You can try have a Windows 10 install on a different drive so you dont end up having to reinstall 11 if 10 doesnt solve the problem.

 

You can also use HWinfo64 sensor mode to check extra data of the graphics card, see if something other than the GPU core is overheating. Typical OC software dont read all readings on the card. Even then there are things not monitored by sensors, you should check the thermal pads on the card which should cover the VRM and VRAM.

This isn't something that progressively happened though, it just happened suddenly about a week ago. I went back to windows 10 and still the problem persists. Nothing is overheating, it is simply just the GPU not boosting to max clock until 35-40% load when it used to do it just fine.

[Jurrunio]

50 minutes ago, Dyllxn said:

This isn't something that progressively happened though, it just happened suddenly about a week ago. I went back to windows 10 and still the problem persists. Nothing is overheating, it is simply just the GPU not boosting to max clock until 35-40% load when it used to do it just fine.

What about stress tests, do those get the GPU to max clocks and usage? I never played games you've mentioned so I cant judge the.clocks and usage you get, need to see if it's a widespread problem. Possible that the games are the ones not working properly.

[Dyllxn]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

What about stress tests, do those get the GPU to max clocks and usage? I never played games you've mentioned so I cant judge the.clocks and usage you get, need to see if it's a widespread problem. Possible that the games are the ones not working properly.

Stress tests work fine and get the usage and speed up to where they should be. I have deduced that i stay at 1515MHz until i reach 40% usage, then the core clock goes up to 2025MHz where it should be. Is there a way to trick the gpu into thinking that it is being used more when it isn't or a way to make the clock speed go higher at a lower load?

[Jurrunio]

3 hours ago, Dyllxn said:

Stress tests work fine and get the usage and speed up to where they should be. I have deduced that i stay at 1515MHz until i reach 40% usage, then the core clock goes up to 2025MHz where it should be. Is there a way to trick the gpu into thinking that it is being used more when it isn't or a way to make the clock speed go higher at a lower load?

Run something else that puts work on the GPU, say video playback with hardware acceleration enabled (i.e. GPU decoding)