Hey everyone,
Looking for advice on my rtx 3080 gigabyte gaming OC.
I know I am certainly lucky to be one of the first to have received an RTX 3080 which makes this slightly harder as if I were to RMA the card, I am not optimistic that a replacement card will be provided quick!
To quickly outline the problem:
When launching a game and playing for the first couple of minutes, I experience some stuttering and albeit it's not game breaking at all but definitely annoying.
The stuttering is also triggered by small tasks and usually when they occur for the first time. For example, in the Witcher 3 the game stutters for the first minute of playing and it seems to occur whilst the map loads new textures/areas of the map, and in any session, using my first sign when playing the game (e.g. igni) will always cause a stutter but will never stutter thereafter after the first sign is used.
The stutter is also brought about by other small things, like whenever I open the map in Control, my game stutters crazy whilst the map loads in and out (fps dropping from 100 to 20 for a second when the map is loaded in and out), which is infuriating considering that Control is a game where I have to open the map pretty often!
Thus far, it seems this stuttering occurs in all games I have tested so far, but get triggered by different things. Strangely, when testing Heaven benchmark, the stutters occur in the exact same scene and times which highlights that something is triggering these stutters.
On top of the stuttering, my card has some very significant coil whine which on its own wouldn't bother me that much, but whenever a stutter occurs, the coil whine noise stops simultaneously and starts as soon as the stutter finishes. This makes the coil whine very annoying and makes it even more excruciating when my game stutters. I am somewhat worried that stuttering may be more problematic in certain games so I am feeling uneasy about the issue.
I guess what I am asking members, is would you get the card RMA'd? Do other RTX 3080 owners experience the same issues (in particular, gigabyte gaming OC owners if there are some around)? Are these likely to be driver issues provided that the card is so new?
Would appreciate any help with this and insights as to what I should do.
My specs:
CPU : Ryzen 3700x
RAM : DDR4 Corsair Vengeance 16GB 3000 Mhz
PSU : EVGA 850w GQ
I also play on a Samsung 860 EVO SSD
