Why is my Gigabyte RTX 5060 AERO OC stuttering in CS2?
During mid-map duels on Dust 2, my frame rate was bouncing wildly between 300 and 180 FPS, which made the crosshair feel completely disconnected from my hand. I initially thought I was hitting a CPU bottleneck, so I cranked the Windows power plan to Ultimate Performance. That gave me a higher peak, but the 1% lows were still a disaster, which was honestly beyond frustrating. After digging into the GPU frequency curves, I noticed the Boost clock on the Gigabyte RTX 5060 AERO OC 8G was spiking every 12-15ms, causing massive frame time jitter. I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, set Power Management Mode to 'Prefer Maximum Performance,' and used a clock tool to hard-lock the core at 2350MHz. Checking HWiNFO, the frame generation interval tightened from a messy 3.1-6.8ms range down to a consistent 2.8-3.2ms. The smoothness is night and day now. One heads-up: the first time I locked the clock, the card spiked to 81℃, so I had to shift my fan curve 5℃ earlier to keep it between 72-76℃. VRAM stayed around 4.2-5.1GB. I exported this profile via system config tools, and now the frame times are locked at 2.8-3.2ms.
