Should I unlock the power limit on my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti for Hellblade 2?
This 5070 Ti was acting like it was on vacation in Hellblade 2; the clock speed was diving so fast it felt like the 'OC' label was a joke. HWInfo showed that as soon as it hit 220W, an aggressive throttling policy kicked in, tanking the core clock from 2600MHz to 1800MHz, which made the game feel twitchy. I first tried the driver's overclock mode, but the GPU hit 88℃ and triggered a full system reboot—that was a wake-up call about my thermal headroom. I used a third-party tool to manually push the power limit to 280W and forced the fan curve to 90% once it hit 75℃. Finally, the clock stabilized between 2550-2650MHz, and frame times stopped swinging from 22-45ms, settling at a crisp 15-18ms. The fans sound like a vacuum cleaner now, but after adding a fan start delay, I can live with it. Core voltage is steady at 1.05-1.12V and VRAM is at 82-88℃. Exported the logs and confirmed the fans are holding at 1400-1600RPM.
