3080 oc Performance Issues with 3080

[jacob21]

Hello there!

The issue i'm having is that i get frame drops in most games i play (Warzone, FH5, GTA V, etc) 1440p FYI

Taking Warzone as an example. I'm running the game at around 160 FPS and a couple of times a minute it suddenly drops to around 130 and then right up again the same second. It's not a huge drop but it's very noticable. This happens in the exact same way in the other games aswell. Just a small drop in frames every 20 seconds. I have tried turning down graphics settings on all these games but i still experience the same issues.

 

What i have noticed that happens simultaneously with the FPS drop is that the % GPU Usage and Watt drops at the same time (I will provide a couple of screeshots from MSI AB below) and that's pretty much it. Everything you can help me with is greatly appreciated as i, myself can't really figure out what is causing these issues. Everything (i hope) you might need to know is listed down below Thanks!

 

These screens are from a session of FH5!

Look at GPU Usage. What i have noticed is that everytime it drops the game stutters or freezes. Even the smaller more rapid drops.

 

 

I have done the following benchmarks if it's to any help for you guys!

3DMark Fire Strike Extreme

3DMark CPU Profile

UserBenchMark

 

PC SPECS

• Windows 10 Pro (20H2) 19042.1288 x64
• BIOS Version: American Megatrends Inc. 2401 x64, 2021-05-25
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
• CPU COOLER: Noctua NH-U12S
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
• SSD: Samsung 840 Evo 120GB (Windows is installed here, 60GB Free Space)
• SSD: Kingston SA2000M81000G 1TB (830GB Free Space)
• HDD: Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2,7TB Free Space)
• RAM: Corsair CMW16GX4M2Z3600C18 2x8GB
• MBD: Asus ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING
• PSU: ASUS ROG Strix 850 80+ GOLD

[slowy]

55 minutes ago, jacob21 said:

What i have noticed that happens simultaneously with the FPS drop is that the % GPU Usage and Watt drops at the same time

Maybe because something else is using resources... you might want to check in the task manager / resource monitor if any other processes jump to the top while gaming? How's the memory usage?

[jacob21]

6 hours ago, slowy said:

Maybe because something else is using resources... you might want to check in the task manager / resource monitor if any other processes jump to the top while gaming? How's the memory usage?

I just checked but no luck.. task manaager aswell as my MSI AB and HWinfo all show that about half of my memory is used. No spikes either

[slowy]

15 hours ago, jacob21 said:

I just checked but no luck.. task manaager aswell as my MSI AB and HWinfo all show that about half of my memory is used. No spikes either

 

Mmmmh now that I look at the screenshot I assume you're running on an OC profile, or is this the "default" profile?

[jacob21]

8 hours ago, slowy said:

 

Mmmmh now that I look at the screenshot I assume you're running on an OC profile, or is this the "default" profile?

I actually have no clue, haven’t touched one thing in bios or other programs that would change the behaviour of the GPU from it’s default, but it is the OC version of the card… Maybe it does that on default?

 

How do i check?

 

Edit: Just realized it actually comes overclocked out of the box.. Maybe i could try to ”underclock” it to match the non OC version of the card. Maybe that would make it more stable?

[xg32]

1. take a screenshot of this tab in ur cpuz, like so:

 

 

2. if the games are installed on the hdd move them to the ssd

[TheeShadowStorm]

are you using dlss and Ray Tracing?

 

[Allan B]

Do you have the fTPM enabled?  if yes, maybe it is related to that?  I get stutters on my 3700x and 3080 since I enabled and went to win11.  

 

[jacob21]

10 hours ago, xg32 said:

1. take a screenshot of this tab in ur cpuz, like so:

 

 

2. if the games are installed on the hdd move them to the ssd

 

[jacob21]

1 hour ago, Allan B said:

Do you have the fTPM enabled?  if yes, maybe it is related to that?  I get stutters on my 3700x and 3080 since I enabled and went to win11.  

 

Thats interesting! I actually turned it on a couple weeks ago because i wanted to try win11, but it didnt work for me anyways..

 

Just checked and it looks like i disabled it again.. Thanks for your input tho!

[xg32]

50 minutes ago, jacob21 said:

 

bump ur ram voltage from 1.35v to 1.4v set the timings manually, try 18 22 22 42 64,  go 2T instead if that wouldnt boot, this is likely the cause of your problems but can't be sure, it is at least part of the problem

[jacob21]

4 hours ago, xg32 said:

bump ur ram voltage from 1.35v to 1.4v set the timings manually, try 18 22 22 42 64,  go 2T instead if that wouldnt boot, this is likely the cause of your problems but can't be sure, it is at least part of the problem

Thanks man! Will do that tomorrow and reach back to you!

[jacob21]

To anyone that is wondering, the fix was stupidly easy…

 

v-sync on in NVCP and off in-game

 

i don’t get how and why since it worked without it before. But yeah im happy

 

also thanks for all your tips and tricks, i really appreciate you guys taking your time to help others