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The Ampere RTX 3080 Owners Thread

Noticed some issues on my 3080 in the drivers.

"prefer max performance" allows card to go to idle clocks, on my 1080ti and older cards it didnt, so in fable anniversary an old game I am getting stutters as game keeps moving between 2d and 3d clocks.
 
Hey, what’s the review of the latest driver? I’m still on 461.40 and wanted to wait until I knew it’s stable and good without any performance loss.
 
For me been fine, I went to 461.81 to see if would fix the power issues, turns out the power issue was caused by something I did on my pc, but I havent noticed issues that some have reported like audio stuttering so staying with it.
 
chrcoluk said:
It was just that setting prefer max performance was not sticking, and games kept dropping to 2d clocks, but it was down to something I had running on the pc.
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2d clocks? You mean it’s dropping below boost of 1710 under high performance? I had worse scores with high performance so I went back to default. Is this an issue?
 
I did say it was down to me :) so no it wasnt be an issue in the driver.

High performance I just use for older games, in modern games that tax the GPU the default power setting will be best.
 
did some undervolt testing.

In non RT stuff the card seems stable using 0.862v at 1905mhz. (overshoot clock, set lower in afterburner).
In port royale I did need to boost voltage at 1905mhz to 0.881mv.

My plan is something like this.

Profile 1, default curve, there for reference point, ideally not used.
Profile 2, for old games, max clock set to 1500mhz, voltage 0.718v, used combined with prefer max voltage in games that need to be forced to stay in 3d clocks, but also dont need 1710mhz.
Profile 3, for newer games that dont need full 3080 horsepower, same voltage curve, max clock speed low to mid 1800s, currently at 1860mhz with 0.850v.
Profile 4, for games that push card, but not RT games, 1905mhz with 0.862mv.
Profile 5, same as 4 except with higher voltages, designed to be stable in RT games.

Profiles 2,3 80% power limit, 4,5 100% power limit.

I may merge profiles 4 and 5, and have all custom profiles using the higher voltage curve which passed port royale.
 
Better off just using a frame rate lock if the game doesn't require all the juice
The card ramps up and down (clocks and voltage) depending on the strain so a frame rate lock would have the same affect but with less faffing around
 
no_1_dave said:
Better off just using a frame rate lock if the game doesn't require all the juice
The card ramps up and down (clocks and voltage) depending on the strain so a frame rate lock would have the same affect but with less faffing around
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Most old games already have frame rate locks, the issue is the game will make card drop to 2d clocks as card thinks its not in a game, then the 2d clocks cant handle the load, its a known issue and its why "prefer max performance" exists, its to be used in those games.

Many people dont know as the reviewers dont really talk about old games, they only interested in testing the latest and greatest AAA titles.
 
chrcoluk said:
Noticed some issues on my 3080 in the drivers.

"prefer max performance" allows card to go to idle clocks, on my 1080ti and older cards it didnt, so in fable anniversary an old game I am getting stutters as game keeps moving between 2d and 3d clocks.
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How old we talking since I play a game from 2002 now and again and never had an issue with clocks?
 
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