Your graphics card has been acting less efficiently lately.
Your graphics card has been acting less efficiently lately.
pc specifications: i9-12900K 3080 Ti from Gigabyte OC MSI PRO Z690-P DDR4 (MS-7D36). Equipped with 16x2 Corsair Vengeance RS DDR4 at 3600MHz and a 1000W power supply. Used ASUS RogStrix Gold+. Since purchasing, performance has remained stable. Primarily playing GTA 5, I typically achieve around 180 FPS on ultra settings—this is normal for my system. Recently, I've observed FPS drops during GTA 5, prompting me to enable Riva Tuner. It often stabilizes at about 100, occasionally spiking to 140 before dropping again. HWiNFO64 shows CPU and GPU temperatures stay below 90°C, so no thermal throttling. I replaced the thermal paste yesterday and cleaned everything. The Gigabyte card failed 7 months ago; I had it sent back for repair. I've experienced a recurring 'lower performance' issue for about a month. I haven't overclocked or adjusted any settings. After a fresh Windows install, launching GTA 5 gave me 188 FPS initially, but later dropped to around 120 on average. It fluctuates between 140 and 90 even during intense scenes.
I might assume Windows installed a faulty driver by itself... attempt to install the newest driver manually (get it from Gigabyte's official site). If that succeeds, look up "how to stop Windows from updating GPU driver automatically" on Google (or Bing) to avoid future issues.
It should have noted that I installed the latest driver using DDU and nvcleaninstall, but this didn't enhance my FPS.