I'm having trouble with my wife's PC where the GPU isn't running at its full potential. It's stuck at around 50-60% power most of the time, and while we've managed to get it to normal usage a couple of times, it always seems to revert back. This drop in usage percentage is affecting the FPS. We've done a complete reset of the PC and used DDU, but can't figure out what's wrong. The GPU isn't overheating, and when I tested it in my own PC, it worked fine. Here are the specs: Ryzen 9 5950X with an NZXT AIO, 1000W Corsair power supply, RTX 5080, 1TB M.2 SSD, and 32GB of Trident G Skills DDR4 running at 4000MTs, all on an Asus ROG Strix B550 Gaming WiFi 2 running Windows 11 Home.
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Make sure your PC power settings are set to max performance. Also, check the Nvidia control panel and enable "prefer max performance". How are you checking the GPU's usage? I recommend using Afterburner—it lets you monitor GPU and CPU power. Be cautious with the power limit slider; don't set it above 100% unless you have solid cooling and know what you're doing.
Yes, the power plan is set to high performance. I've been using the Nvidia overlay and Task Manager, but I haven't changed anything in Afterburner.