Why is my Gigabyte RTX 5060 Ti 16G hitching in Cyberpunk 2077?
Cruising through the neon districts of Night City was a nightmare because of these micro-second jumps in the frame delivery. It's frustrating since the 16GB VRAM on the Gigabyte RTX 5060 Ti should handle this easily, but the memory controller was hitting a 14-22ms addressing delay between the L2 cache and VRAM during path-tracing heavy sequences. I first tried enabling Low Latency Mode in the NVIDIA Control Panel, but that actually backfired, increasing the stutter frequency by about 15%. After some digging, I used a third-party tool to force a fixed memory allocation mode and disabled Windows Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling. Checking RTSS, the frame times finally stopped jumping between 8-25ms and settled into a rock steady 6-11ms range. I did hit a snag early on where locking the core clock pushed idle power to 45W, but a quick voltage offset of -0.05V in BIOS fixed that. Temps stayed between 58-64℃ with fans at 1400 RPM. The mapping is finally stable, though I suspect some drivers are still a bit glitchy.
