Silent Scone wrote:
Never a nice situation to be in when wanting to simply knuckle down and play. Have you tried capping the framerate? Try 75 for instance. Also you can try setting Windows to High Performance power plan (wasn't clear in your post if you meant NVIDIA's PM options).

Also, yes, it's normal that the card won't have audible resonance if the game stutters.

luckerr wrote:
Yeye I meant High Performance power plan in Windows. Anyway caping the frames did not help either. And that's not the solution for all the games you know. That's why I did not buy 240hz monitor 😕

Silent Scone wrote:
I suggested this plainly because you're running a 240Hz monitor and at 1080p. You're also not overclocking the CPU, so in quite a few scenarios with that GPU you're going to be CPU limited by not doing so. I'm guessing you didn't purchase a 1080Ti only to be CPU bottlnecked, either.

Try setting the NV control panel Power Management to maximum performance, too.

luckerr wrote:
I got your point. But after checking some youtube videos with exact build (stock speed)... there is no issue you know. That's why I am confused.. and even more confused that it's not happening all the time? It's like every 2nd or 3rd banchmark in AC:O. Same as the stuttering in other games.. it's not constant.

https://imgur.com/A5RFpE1

https://imgur.com/Vi1bRqu

https://imgur.com/FBvPYKL - frametime spikes to 50-80ms

Do you think that maybe you can find something useful in these screenshots? This was taken while doing the benchmark. And my CPU is not even running 100% you know (to blame Denuvo).

Quozzo wrote:
A CPU will never hit 100% in games as they usually utilise only two or four cores. What was each core's utilisation. If you have MSI AB or similar installed you should be able to alt+tab out and see if it hit 100% on any of the cores. Just one hitting 100% would be a CPU bottleneck.

Someone also mentioned you haven't overlcocked it, is that correct? If so it's possible you're only running on 3.7GHz since it will hit the TDP for more than 90s (i think is the spec) and downclock it to 3.7GHz. If you're attempting to run it at a high FPS you need all the clock speed you can squeeze out of it.

Silent Scone wrote:
CPU utilisation doesn't necessarily need to be running 100% for there to be a limitation. That said, it was only a suggestion to see if it alleviated the problem.


Did you try setting the Power Management to Maximum Performance in NV Control Panel as suggested? It could be a number of things, the screenshots show GPU usage taking a hit as well as VID, which could be a power limitation. Have you tried increasing the TDP through GPUTweak to 120%?

luckerr wrote:
Maximum performance in NV did not help too. I appreciate your suggestions so much and thank you for that.. I will try everything. But my question is.. why do I have to increase TDP through GPUTweak? This GPU should be stable on stock settings right? (I am just asking) Because I did not install any utility yet regarding the tests.