That feature is overclocking, you use it mainly if you want to squeeze a few frames out of games or if your GPU is starting to show its years and you want to make it perform a little better, if games are running good without it, then leave it off. Maximum performance is about using power for the card, if you play something like a FPS shooter like COD that moves fast and you are moving trough environment constantly, For slower games that arent graphic intensive is not really necessary but it mainly affects power draw.
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weary bobcat
weary bobcat
Am using optimal power. I tend to leave my PC idle or just running neutron music player for hours, so i dont think having max performance would benefit my pc if am not really using it.
shut pawn
no, unless your GPU is broken and you need it to limp along until you can get an arrangement
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If you enable maximum performance without actually needing it, all you're realistically getting is a minor decrease in latency in exchange for significantly increased power draw in FPS limited situations
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In what game(s) are you currently encountering stutters, and what specs?
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Show the contents of Task Manager > Performance > memory
Also the contents of whichever your system drive (C:) and you game drive in the same tab
And finally, display specs
weary bobcat
How about you narrow it down, like what game. But those specs seem fine to run any game. Is it only stutters? not random crash to desktop or blue screen crashes?
But without having your pc in front i can only spitball ideas. Like what windows are you running, what antivirus, what settings are in your nvidia control panel since you had max performance on, and some of those setting override your ingame settings sometimes so some of those options its best to use "application controlled". And then set your ingame graphic settings to max, only thing that i can think to constantly produce stutters is that you are playing your games with uncapped FPS, so if a game lets you set a fixed amount of frames try setting them up to 60 if there are no stutters start raising it up but raising your FPS higher than 60 will only be noticeable on mobas and first person shooters.
You can use those 2 tools to test both ram and Vram. Also turn off auto tuning on the nvida app if you are going to test the vram.
shut pawn
How about you narrow it down, like what game. But those specs seem fine to run a...
Please avoid uploading EXE files as is and try to link them to their original web sites
anyway, testing hardware doesn't make sense here
These games are very much not well optimized, but you appear to not have shown your Task Manager contents yet
Also, for Fortnite, see below
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weary bobcat
You might get stutters depending on the resolution you play on, so playing 1080p with 100fps on something like call of duty will have little impact on a card like a 3080, but if you bump it to 2k and tell your card i want 100fps on call of duty at 2140p, you´ll start noticing some strain, now bump that further to 4k resolution and you will have trouble keeping 60 fps or even reaching 60, mind you this is all at max settings. Of all the games i played those 2 i never touched so i cant be much of assistance there, only that dont use uncapped FPS, limit it to 60, those games tend to be fast once the action starts going so on your monitor if it has Gsync, use gsync with 100hz or more to reduce horizontal tearing and always turn off vsync on games if you have gsync on.
Because the card is optimized well enough to run tiptop at optimal, maximum performance might benefit more people that use GPU intensive tasks like modeling or use the GPU as a workstation i would guess, frankly i have never used that mode tbh nor i have noticed a performance drop in games for using optimal.
And thats on nvidia control panel? i have 3 modes, adaptive, optimal and maximum. Leave it at normal then.