Troubleshooting GPU Low Performance

[NickSummer7]

Hey folks, I can’t really find another post with the same problem, so I thought I’d make my own post. 

 

TL/DR: Graphics card not getting full power. 

 

This is recent (over the past month) where my fps would drop heavily but then go back up. So I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Now its a consistent 30 fps, settings at where I used to get 160+. 

 

Because of that I started troubleshooting the graphics card using 3D mark as the baseline. I’m getting less than 50% the average score for my build. 

 

Here are the steps I’ve done to troubleshoot (still no help):

 

Update GPU Drivers

Update MB Firmware

Update Windows 10

Install a fresh version of Windows 11

Reconnect 8 Pin power cables

Swapped PCUs

 

 

The more technical info: 

When running the graphics tests the temp won’t go above 50 C. I have the max set to 83. (The GPU shows its at 100% utilization at this point). 

The max power I’ve seen it draw is 160 Watts. 

 

Specs:

 

EVGA FTW3 RTX 3090

Intel I9-10900k

Seasonic 850W PSU

64 Gb RAM

Asus Maximus XII Formula Mother Board

 

I really want to think its some easy power limit that I can adjust… but my hope is low.

 

Any ideas are welcome. 

[mr fobs]

10 minutes ago, NickSummer7 said:

 

Reconnect 8 Pin power cables

Just making sure, you are using 3 separate power cables right? not daisy chaining?

[NickSummer7]

22 minutes ago, mr fobs said:

Just making sure, you are using 3 separate power cables right? not daisy chaining?

Correct, each with its own cable.